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

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emissions level (i.e., those emissions that would occur in 2020, absent GHG-reducing laws and regulations).45 In 2014, CARB adopted the First Update to the Climate Change Scoping Plan: Building on the Framework (First Update).46 The stated purpose of the First Update was to "highlight... California's success to date in reducing its GHG emissions and lay ... the foundation for establishing a broad framework for continued emission reductions beyond 2020, on the path to 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050.47 The First Update found that California is on track to meet the 2020 emissions reduction mandate established by AB 32 and noted that California could reduce emissions further by 2030 to levels squarely in line with those needed to stay on track to reduce emissions to 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050 if the state realizes the expected benefits of existing policy goals.48 In conjunction with the First Update, CARB identified "six key focus areas comprising major components of the state's economy to evaluate and describe the larger transformative actions that will be needed to meet the state's more expansive emission reduction needs by 2050.49 Those six areas were: (1) energy; (2) transportation (vehicles/equipment, sustainable communities, housing, fuels, and infrastructure); (3) agriculture; (4) water; (5) waste management; and (6) natural and working lands. The First Update identified key recommended actions for each sector that would facilitate achievement of the 2050 reduction target. The First Update discussed new residential and commercial building energy efficiency improvements, specifically identifying progress towards zero net energy buildings as an element of meeting mid-term and long-term GHG emissions reduction goals. The First Update expressed CARB's commitment to working with the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) and California Energy Commission (CEC) to facilitate further achievements in building energy efficiency. In December 2017, CARB adopted California's 2017 Climate Change Scoping Plan Update: The Strategy forAchieving California's 2030 Greenhouse Gas Target (2017 Scoping Plan Update). The 2017 Climate Change Scoping Plan addresses the deeper cuts required by SB 32 by a 2030 horizon year and has a range of GHG reduction actions that include 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 2017 Scoping Plan Update includes policies to require direct GHG emissions reductions at some of the state's largest stationary sources and mobile sources. These policies include the use of lower GHG fuels, efficiency regulations, and the Cap -and -Trade program, which constrains and reduces emissions at covered sources. 45 California Air Resources Board, Climate Change Scoping Plan: A Framework for Change, p. 12, December 2008. 46 Health & Safety Code §38561(h) requires CARB to update the Scoping Plan every five years. 47 California Air Resources Board, First Update, May 2014, p. 4. 48 California Air Resources Board, First Update, May 2014, p. 34. 49 California Air Resources Board, First Update, May 2014, p. 6. Cabrillo Town Center Greenhouse. as ec PAGE 17 City of Santa Ana 10/3/2023 July 2023