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Existing Project Site Emissions. The Project Site is improved with four commercial buildings totaling <br />173,025 square feet and 617 surface parking spaces. As summarized in Table 4, most existing GHG <br />emissions are associated with the 1,876 daily vehicle trips traveling to and from the Project Site.58 <br />Table 4 <br />Annual GHG Emissions Summary (Existing)' <br />(metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent [MTCO2e]) <br />Secgtor <br />MTCO2a <br />Area <br />4 <br />Energy° (electricity and natural gas) <br />724 <br />Mobile <br />2,482 <br />Solid Wasted <br />50 <br />Water/Wastewatere <br />75 <br />Refrigerants <br /><1 <br />Total Emissions <br />3,335 <br />a CO2e was calculated using CaIEEMod and the results are provided in the Technical Appendix. <br />b Area source emissions are from landscape equipment and other operational equipment only; hearths omitted. <br />Energy source emissions are based on CaIEEMod default electricity and natural gas usage rates. <br />d Solid waste emissions are calculated based on CaIEEMod default solid waste generation rates. <br />e Water/Wastewater emissions are calculated based on CaIEEMod default water consumption rates. <br />Source: DKA Planning, 2023. <br />Methodology <br />CEQA Guidelines Section 15064.4(a) assist lead agencies in determining the significance of the impacts <br />of GHG emissions, giving them discretion to determine whether to assess impacts quantitatively or <br />qualitatively. It calls for a good -faith effort to describe and calculate emissions. This emissions inventory <br />also demonstrates the reduction in a project's incremental contribution of GHG emissions that results <br />from regulations and requirements adopted as implementation efforts for these plans for the reduction <br />or mitigation of GHG emissions. As such, it provides further justification that a project is consistent with <br />plans adopted for the purpose of reducing and/or mitigating GHG emissions by a project and over time. <br />The significance of a project's GHG emissions impacts is not based on the amount of GHG emissions <br />resulting from that project. <br />The City, SCAQMD, Office of Planning and Research (OPR), CARB, California Air Pollution Control <br />Officers Association (CAPCOA), and other applicable agencies have not adopted a numerical threshold <br />of significance for assessing impacts related to GHG emissions. As a result, the methodology for <br />evaluating a project's impacts related to GHG emissions focuses on its consistency with statewide, <br />regional, and local plans adopted for the purpose of reducing and/or mitigating GHG emissions.59 This <br />58 Linscott Law & Greenspan, Memorandum: Vehicle Miles Traveled Assessment for the Proposed Cabrillo Town <br />Center Mixed -Use Project; June 27, 2023. <br />59 CEQA Guidelines, Section 14 CCR 15064.4. <br />Cabrillo Town Center <br />Greenhouse. as ec <br />PAGE 24 <br />•:- <br />City of Santa Ana <br />10/3/2023 July 2023 <br />