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RESOLUTION NO. 23-1365 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PLEASANTON ADOPTING THE CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT (CEQA) GREENHOUSE GAS (GHG) EMISSIONS SIGNIFICANCE THRESHOLDS AND MAKING FINDINGS OF CEQA EXEMPTION WHEREAS, in 2006, the State of California adopted the Global Warming Act of 2006 (Assembly Bill 32), which created a Statewide greenhouse gas emissions requirement and goal to reduce emissions to 1990 levels by 2020; and in 2016, California Senate Bill 32 established a new greenhouse gas reduction target of 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030; and, WHEREAS, in August 2008, SB 375 enhanced the State's ability to reach AB 32 goals by directing California Air Resources Board (CARB) to develop regional Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emission reduction targets to be achieved from passenger vehicles by 2020 and 2035. SB 375 aligns regional transportation planning efforts, regional GHG reduction targets, and affordable housing allocations. Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) are required to adopt a Sustainable Communities Strategy (SCS), which allocates land uses in the MPO's Regional Transportation Plan (RTP). Qualified projects consistent with an approved SCS or Alternative Planning Strategy categorized as "transit priority projects" would receive incentives to streamline CEQA processing; and WHEREAS, in 2008, CARB approved the original California Climate Change Scoping Plan, which included measures to address GHG emission reduction strategies related to energy efficiency, water use, and recycling and solid waste, among other measures, which have been adopted and implemented since approval of the Scoping Plan; and WHEREAS, in 2013, CARB approved the first update to the California Climate Change Scoping Plan that defined CARB climate change priorities for the next five years and set the groundwork to reach post-2020 Statewide GHG emissions reduction goals. The 2013 Scoping Plan Update highlighted California's progress toward meeting the "near-term" 2020 GHG emission reduction goals defined in the original Scoping Plan and also evaluated how to align the State's longer-term GHG reduction strategies with other State policy priorities, including those for water, waste, natural resources, clean energy, transportation, and land use; and WHEREAS, on March 22, 2018, CARB adopted updated regional targets for reducing GHG emissions from 2005 levels by 2020 and 2035. The Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) was assigned targets of a 7 percent reduction in GHGs from transportation sources by 2020 and a 15 percent reduction in GHGs from transportation sources by 2035. ABAG adopted the 2050 RTP (Plan Bay Area 2050) in October 2021, which includes the region's SCS and meets the requirements of SB 375; and WHEREAS, in September 2018, Governor Brown signed SB 100, requiring that the State's load serving entities (including energy utilities and community choice energy programs) must procure energy generated 100 percent from Renewables Portfolio Standard for eligible renewable resources by 2045; and WHEREAS, on June 1, 2005, the governor issued EO S-03-05, which established a Statewide goal of reducing GHG emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 and created the Climate Action Team. The 2020 GHG reduction target contained in EO S-03-05 was later codified by Assembly Bill (AB) 32; and