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

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and the GHG emissions from such vehicle activity. Traffic studies in the City of Santa Ana began formally analyzing projects in this fashion effective July 1, 2020. Senate Bill 375. Acknowledging the relationship between land use planning and transportation sector GHG emissions, Senate Bill (SB) 375 was passed by the State Assembly on August 25, 2008 and signed by the Governor on September 30, 2008. This legislation links regional planning for housing and transportation with the GHG reduction goals outlined in AB 32. Reductions in GHG emissions would be achieved by, for example, locating employment opportunities close to transit. Under SB 375, each Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) would be required to adopt a Sustainable Community Strategy (SCS) to encourage compact development that reduce passenger VMT and trips so that the region will meet a target, created by CARB, for reducing GHG emissions. If the SCS is unable to achieve the regional GHG emissions reduction targets, then the MPO is required to prepare an alternative planning strategy that shows how the GHG emissions reduction target could be achieved through alternative development patterns, infrastructure, and/or transportation measures. Assembly Bill 1279. This 2022 legislation creates a legally binding goal that California achieve carbon neutrality by 2045. It would also require the State to reduce GHG emissions by 85 percent below 1990 levels by 2045. Climate Change Scoping Plan. In 2008, CARB approved the original Climate Change Scoping Plan as required by AB 32.41 Subsequently, CARB approved updates to the Climate Change Scoping Plan in 2014 (First Update) and 2017 (2017 Update), with the 2017 Update considering SB 32 (adopted in 2016) in addition to AB 32. In December 2022, CARB adopted the 2022 Update, which addresses the State{s goal for carbon neutrality by 2045. The original Climate Change Scoping Plan proposed a "comprehensive set of actions designed to reduce overall carbon GHG emissions in California, improve our environment, reduce our dependence on oil, diversify our energy sources, save energy, create new jobs, and enhance public health.42 The original Climate Change Scoping Plan identified a range of GHG reduction actions that included direct regulations, alternative compliance mechanisms, monetary and non -monetary incentives, voluntary actions, market -based mechanisms, such as a cap -and -trade system, and an AB 32 implementation fee to fund the program. The original Climate Change Scoping Plan called for a "coordinated set of solutions" to address all major categories of GHG emissions. Transportation emissions were addressed through a combination of higher standards for vehicle fuel economy, implementation of the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS), and greater consideration to reducing trip length and generation through land use planning and transit - oriented development. Buildings, land use, and industrial operations were encouraged and, sometimes, required to use energy more efficiently. Utility energy providers were required change to include more 41 Climate Change Proposed Scoping Plan was approved by CARB on December 11, 2008. 42 California Air Resources Board, Climate Change Scoping Plan, December 2008. Cabrillo Town Center Greenhouse. as ec PAGE 15 W. City of Santa Ana 10/3/2023 July 2023