Item 28 - Public Hearing - ZOA No. 20204-01 South Coast Technology Center

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South Coast Technology Center Project CEQA Exemption 15183 Consistency Conclusion As discussed, the significance determination for GHG emissions is based solely on consistency with applicable statewide, regional, and local climate change mandates, plans, policies, and regulations. As demonstrated in the above analysis, the Project's characteristics render it consistent with statewide, regional, and local climate change mandates, plans, policies, and regulations. More specifically, the GHG plan consistency analyses provided above demonstrates that the proposed Project would comply with the regulations and GHG reduction goals, policies, actions, measures, and strategies outlined in the 2022 Scoping Plan, Connect SoCal, the City's General Plan, and the City's CAP. Consistency with these plans would reduce the impact of the Project's incremental contribution to GHG emissions. Accordingly, the Project would not conflict with any applicable plan, policy, regulation, or recommendation adopted for the purpose of reducing GHG emissions. As the proposed Project is consistent with statewide, regional, and local GHG reduction plans, the proposed Project would also be consistent with the State's long-term goal to achieve statewide carbon neutrality (zero -net emissions). Accordingly, impacts related to GHG emissions resulting from the proposed Project would be less than significant and would be less when compared to the impacts disclosed in the GPU PEIR, which were determined to be significant and unavoidable even with implementation of mitigation for GPU PEIR Impact 5.7-1 and less than significant for GPU PEIR Impact 5.7-2. Therefore, no new project -specific mitigation measures are required. 4.8.3 Conclusion The Project is consistent with the General Plan Update. With implementation of RR GHG-1, RR GHG-2, RR GHG-3, and RR GHG-7, the proposed Project would not have any specific effects which are peculiar to the Project or the Project Site. There are no project -specific impacts or potentially significant off -site or cumulative impacts that the GPU PEIR did not analyze, and there are no new significant or substantially more severe GHG impacts than anticipated by the GPU PEIR. 4.8.4 Applicable GPU PEIR Regulatory Requirements/Mitigation Measures: RR GHG-1 New buildings are required to achieve the current California Building Energy and Efficiency Standards (Title 24, Part 6) and California Green Building Standards Code (CALGreen) (Title 24, Part 11). The 2019 Building and Energy Efficiency Standards were effective on January 1, 2020. The Building Energy and Efficiency Standards and CALGreen are updated tri-annually. RR GHG-2 Construction activities are required to adhere to California Code of Regulations, Title 13, Section 2499, which restricts nonessential idling of construction equipment to five minutes or less. RR GHG-3 New buildings are required to adhere to the California Green Building Standards Code and Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance requirements to increase water efficiency and reduce urban per capita water demand. RR GHG-7 California's Green Building Standards Code (CALGreen) requires the recycling and/or salvaging for reuse at minimum of 65 percent of the nonhazardous construction and demolition waste generated during most "new construction" projects (CALGreen §§ 4.408 and 5.408). Construction contractors are required to submit a construction waste management plan that identifies the construction and July 2024 Page 64