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CEQA Class 32 Exemption – 400 W Warner Ave April 7, 2025 Page 5 of 10 • Projects which serve the local community and have the potential to reduce VMT, such as neighborhood K-12 schools and local serving retail less than 50,000 SF (Charter schools are excluded from this criteria). • Projects that generate less than 110 net daily trips. • Projects located within Transit Priority Areas (TPAs). o TPAs are defined as a ½ mile radius around an existing or planned major transit stop (e.g. Metrolink Station, Streetcar Station, etc.) or an existing stop along a high quality transit corridor. o High Quality Transit Areas (HQTAs) are defined as a corridor with fixed route bus service with service intervals no longer than 15 minutes during peak commute hours. A map of HQTAs can be reviewed on SCAG’s website (but should be verified by the engineer/planner related to the criteria for these areas). o Please note that projects that are in TPAs will also be required to complete a secondary screening step to verify the proposed project’s consistency with the assumptions from the Regional Transportation Plan/Sustainable Communities Strategy (RTP/SCS). This consistency can be a land use review (e.g. are the proposed land uses already included in the RTP/SCS) or can be reviewed from a VMT/SP perspective (e.g. does the resulting land use increase or decrease the VMT/SP in the Traffic Analysis Zone (TAZ) compared to the RTP/SCS assumptions). • Projects located in a low-VMT generating TAZ. As shown in Appendix A of the City’s Traffic Impact Study Guidelines, the Project is located within a TPA.2 Additionally, the Project proposes land use consistent with those permitted by the General Plan, which is consistent with the land uses assumed for the Project site as part of the RTP/SCS. Therefore, the Project would meet the screening threshold for being within a TPA. Additionally, the Project would serve the local community. Therefore, the Project would meet two of the screening thresholds and VMT impacts would be less than significant. Air Quality and Greenhouse Gas Emissions The Project’s Air Quality & Greenhouse Gas Assessment is presented as Attachment C to this Memorandum. As shown in Tables 4 and 5 of the Assessment, the Project would not result in an exceedance of the South Coast Air Quality Management District (South Coast AQMD) regional significance threshold for construction-source or operational-source emissions. Additionally, as shown in Table 7 of the Assessment, emissions resulting from the construction would not exceed the numerical thresholds of localized significance established by the South Coast AQMD for any criteria pollutant. Moreover, Table 8 of the Assessment shows that the Project would generate a total of approximately 2,018.62 MTCO2e/yr, which would not exceed the SCAQMD’s numeric threshold of significance of 3,000 MTCO2e/yr. 2 https://storage.googleapis.com/proudcity/santaanaca/uploads/2022/03/Santa-Ana-VMT-TIS-Guidelines.pdf