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City of Santa Ana—Cabrillo Town Center Project May 16,2023 Page 3of12 can positively affect returns on climate mitigation efforts. In other words, well-trained workers are key to delivering emissions reductions and moving California closer to its climate targets.1 Furthermore,workforce policies have significant environmental benefits given that they improve an area's jobs-housing balance, decreasing the amount and length of job commutes and the associated greenhouse gas ("GHG") emissions. In fact, on May 7, 2021, the South Coast Air Quality Management District found that that the "[u]se of a local state-certified apprenticeship program" can result in air pollutant reductions.2 Locating jobs closer to residential areas can have significant environmental benefits. As the California Planning Roundtable noted in 2008: People who live and work in the same jurisdiction would be more likely to take transit, walk, or bicycle to work than residents of less balanced communities and their vehicle trips would be shorter. Benefits would include potential reductions in both vehicle miles traveled and vehicle hours traveled.' Moreover, local hire mandates and skill-training are critical facets of a strategy to reduce vehicle miles traveled ("VMT"). As planning experts Robert Cervero and Michael Duncan have noted, simply placing jobs near housing stock is insufficient to achieve VMT reductions given that the skill requirements of available local jobs must match those held by local residents.' Some municipalities have even tied local hire and 1 California Workforce Development Board (2020) Putting California on the High Road:A Jobs and Climate Action Plan for 2030 at p. ii, available at htips://laborcenter.berkele, wti-content/uploads/2020/09/Putting-California-on-the-High-Road.pdf. Z South Coast Air Quality Management District (May 7, 2021) Certify Final Environmental Assessment and Adopt Proposed Rule 2305—Warehouse Indirect Source Rule— Warehouse Actions and Investments to Reduce Emissions Program, and Proposed Rule 316—Fees for Rule 2305,Submit Rule 2305 for Inclusion Into the SIP, and Approve Supporting Budget Actions, available athttp://www.agmd.gov/docs/default- source/Agendas/Governing-Board/2021/2021-Ma3:7-027.pdf?sfvrsn=10. s California Planning Roundtable (2008) Deconstructing Jobs-Housing Balance at p. 6, available at https://cproundtable.org/static/media/uploads/publications/cpr-1 obs- housingpdf n Cervero, Robert and Duncan,Michael (2006) Which Reduces Vehicle Travel More:Jobs- Housing Balance or Retail-Housing Mixing?Journal of the American Planning Association 72 (4),475-490, 482, available athttp://reconnectingamerica.org/assets/Up1oads/UTCT- 825.12df.