RANEY PLANNING & MANAGEMENT, INC. (2)

4 Raney would complete the following deliverables: • Participate in a kick-off meeting with City staff and applicant team, if requested; • Review existing documentation for the project and identify key issues; • Establish communication protocols; • Perform a site visit, if necessary; and • Refine the scope, if necessary, with any revisions for the City to approve. Task 2 Prepare Administrative Draft IS/MND The objective of this task is to prepare an Administrative Draft version of the IS/MND for review by City staff. The IS/MND will be prepared based upon City standards and will address all the issues identified in the Environmental Checklist, per Appendix G of the CEQA Guidelines. Raney will use the latest version of the Appendix G Checklist. The following summarizes how Raney proposes to analyze the anticipated key issue areas: Air Quality and GHG Emissions The air quality and GHG analysis for the proposed project will be performed in-house by Raney’s air quality staff, utilizing the California Emissions Estimator Model (CalEEMod) software program and following the BAAQMD CEQA Guidelines. Air Quality Raney will utilize the CalEEMod software program to conduct a quantitative assessment of short-term (i.e., construction) and long-term (i.e., operational) increases of criteria air pollutant emissions of primary concern (i.e., ROG, NOX, PM10, and PM2.5) resulting from the proposed project. The significance of air quality impacts will be determined in comparison to BAAQMD recommended thresholds of significance. The project’s cumulative contribution to regional air quality will be discussed, based in part on the modeling conducted at the project level. Mitigation measures will be incorporated to reduce any significant air quality impacts, and anticipated reductions in emissions associated with proposed mitigation measures will be quantified. GHG Emissions Raney will run the CalEEMod program using project land use, and trip generation rates provided by the applicant team, to produce an estimate of annual GHG emissions for the proposed project. The BAAQMD has adopted new thresholds of significance for GHG emissions. Pursuant to the new BAAQMD thresholds of significance for GHG emissions, new land use development projects need to implement specific design elements (i.e., no natural gas, electric vehicle charging, reduce vehicle miles traveled [VMT] by 15 percent) or show consistency with a local GHG reduction strategy in order to do its “fair share” of implementing the goal of carbon neutrality by 2045. If the project can implement the specific design elements, it can reasonably be determined that the proposed project will not make a cumulatively considerable contribution to global climate change. Raney will work closely with the City and BAAQMD throughout preparation of the GHG analysis with respect to identifying the methodology and thresholds of significance to be used for the GHG analysis. Raney’s GHG analysis for the proposed project will follow the agreed upon Docusign Envelope ID: 2A85D316-C052-4009-999F-38708C3D7EBCDocusign Envelope ID: 9E909BA3-E203-400F-8158-F382D9C3612B