Item 19 - Cabrillo Crossing Density Bonus Agreement, 1814 & 1818 E. First Street

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The purpose of this air quality, global climate change, health risk assessment and energy impact analysis is to provide an assessment of the impacts resulting from development of the proposed Cabrillo at First Mixed - Use Residential project and to identify measures that may be necessary to reduce potentially significant impacts. Construction -Source Emissions Project construction -source emissions would not exceed applicable regional thresholds of significance established by the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD). For localized emissions, the project will not exceed applicable Localized Significance Thresholds (LSTs) established by the SCAQMD. Project construction -source emissions would not conflict with the Basin Air Quality Management Plan (AQMP). As discussed herein, the project will comply with all applicable SCAQMD construction -source emission reduction rules and guidelines. Project construction source emissions would not cause or substantively contribute to violation of the California Ambient Air Quality Standards (CAAQS) or National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS). Given the temporary and short-term construction schedule, the project would not result in a long-term (i.e., lifetime or 30-year) exposure to TACs as a result of project construction. Furthermore, construction -based particulate matter (PM) emissions (including diesel exhaust emissions) do not exceed any local or regional thresholds. Therefore, impacts from TACs during construction would be less than significant. Established requirements addressing construction equipment operations, and construction material use, storage, and disposal requirements act to minimize odor impacts that may result from construction activities. Moreover, construction -source odor emissions would be temporary, short-term, and intermittent in nature and would not result in persistent impacts that would affect substantial numbers of people. Potential construction -source odor impacts are therefore considered less than significant. Operational -Source Emissions Project operational -sourced emissions would not exceed applicable regional thresholds of significance established by the SCAQMD. Project operational -source emissions would not result in or cause a significant localized air quality or toxic air contaminant (TAC) impacts as discussed in the Operations -Related Local Air Quality Impacts section of this report. Additionally, project -related trips will not cause or result in CO concentrations exceeding applicable state and/or federal standards (CO "hotspots). The Diesel Emissions Health Risk Assessment conducted for this project showed that the cancer risk from freeway -related DPM emissions would exceed the SCAQMD MICR threshold of 10 in a million at all of the proposed residential uses on -site. However, with incorporation of mitigation measure 1 (see Section 6 of this report), which requires the installation of MERV 13 filtration within all the homes, the cancer risk from freeway -related DPM concentrations would be reduced to less than significant levels. Therefore, with mitigation, emissions exposure during the operation of the project would therefore not adversely affect sensitive receptors within the vicinity of the project. Project operational -source emissions would not conflict with the Basin Air Quality Management Plan (AQMP). The project's emissions meet SCAQMD regional thresholds and will not result in a significant cumulative impact. The project does not propose any such uses or activities that would result in potentially significant operational -source odor impacts. Potential operational -source odor impacts are therefore considered less than significant. Cabrillo at First Mixed Use Residential g3ldJ101 Air Quality, Global Climate Change, HRA, and Energy Impact Analysis v 19386