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emissions impacts is included in Exhibits 9 and 9D of the <br />Project staff report. As summarized, the Project would not <br />result in any significant impacts related to GHG emissions. <br />Moreover, statutory/regulatory requirements do not need to <br />be repeated as mitigation measures for the Project. The <br />Project would be subject to all applicable solar photovoltaic <br />(PV) and EV parking requirements (i.e., statutory <br />requirements) as outlined in the current 2022 California <br />Green Building Code. <br />CEQA Guidelines Section 15064.4(a) assists lead agencies <br />in determining the significance of the impacts of GHG <br />emissions, giving them discretion to determine whether to <br />assess impacts quantitatively or qualitatively. The City, <br />Southern California Air Quality Management District <br />(SCAQMD), Office of Planning and Research (OPR), CARB, <br />California Air Pollution Control Officers Association <br />(CAPCOA), and other applicable agencies have not adopted <br />a numerical threshold of significance for assessing impacts <br />related to GHG emissions. As a result, the methodology for <br />evaluating a project's impacts related to GHG emissions <br />focuses on its consistency with statewide, regional, and local <br />plans adopted for the purpose of reducing and/or mitigating <br />GHG emissions. <br />Exhibit 9 describes the extent to which the Project is <br />consistent with or exceeds the performance -based <br />standards included in the regulations outlined in the 2022 <br />Climate Change Scoping Plan, the 2020-2045 RTP/SCS, <br />and the City's CAP. Given the Project's substantial <br />consistency with state, SCAG, and City GHG emissions <br />reduction goals and objectives, the Project is consistent with <br />applicable plans, policies, and regulations adopted for the <br />purpose of reducing the emissions of GHG emissions. In the <br />absence of adopted standards and established significance <br />thresholds, and given this consistency, it is concluded that <br />the Project's incremental contribution to GHG emissions and <br />their effects on climate change would not be cumulatively <br />considerable. Further, GHG emissions -related impacts have <br />long been known and understood at the time the Certified <br />EIR was certified, and therefore, does not constitute new <br />information for the purposes of this analysis. <br />d. The appellant contends that the Project may have significant <br />land use impacts which were not analyzed in the Certified <br />EIR. <br />Resolution No. 2023-xx <br />City Council 18 — 328 10/ 0 3 f 24 <br />