Item 18 - Appeal Application Nos. 2023-02 and 2023-03 for Cabrillo Town Center project

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the state to meet the 2050 target. After the findings of these studies, SB 32 was passed on September 8, 2016, and would require the state board to ensure that statewide GHG emissions are reduced to 40 percent below the 1990 level by 2030. As discussed above, the new plan, outlined in SB 32, involves increasing renewable energy use, imposing tighter limits on the carbon content of gasoline and diesel fuel, putting more electric cars on the road, improving energy efficiency, and curbing emissions from key industries. As discussed above, SCAG's 2020-2045 RTP/SCS establishes a regulatory framework for achieving GHG reductions from the land use and transportation sectors pursuant to SB 375 and the state's long-term climate policies. The 2020-2045 RTP/SCS ensures VMT reductions and other measures that reduce regional emissions from the land use and transportation sectors. The Project is the type of land use development that is encouraged by the 2020-2045 RTP/SCS to reduce VMT and expand multi -modal transportation options for the region to achieve the GHG reductions from the land use and transportation sectors required by SB 375, which, in turn, advances the state's long-term climate policies. By furthering implementation of SB 375, the Project supports regional land use and transportation GHG reductions substantially consistent with state climate targets for 2020 and beyond. In addition, the Project would be consistent with the Actions and Strategies set forth in the 2020-2045 RTP/SCS. Therefore, the Project would be consistent with the 2020-2045 RTP/SCS. Conclusion Given the Project's substantial consistency with state, SCAG, and City GHG emissions reduction goals and objectives, the Project is consistent with applicable plans, policies, and regulations adopted for the purpose of reducing the emissions of GHG emissions. In the absence of adopted standards and established significance thresholds, and given this consistency, it is concluded that the Project's incremental contribution to GHG emissions and their effects on climate change would not be cumulatively considerable. Mitigation Measures None required. 4.8.3 Any substantial changes in circumstances involving new significant impacts or substantial increase in the severity of significant impacts that will require major revisions of the Certified EIR? Although the topic of GHG emissions is new to the CEQA Guidelines (when compared to the 2006 CEQA Guidelines), as demonstrated above for informational purposes, the Project would be substantially consistent with all applicable GHG emissions reduction plans and would not result in any significant impacts related to GHG emissions. Thus, the Project would not result in new or more severe significant environmental impacts as compared with the potential GHG impacts resulting from a Project consistent with the uses, building density and intensity and envelope permitted by the Overlay Zone assumed in the Certified EIR . Cabrillo Town Center City of Santa Ana Technical Memorandum August 2023 City Council 18 — 565 10/3/2023