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Community Plan Exemption Checklist <br />City of Santa Ana Gary Avenue Business Park Project <br />5.8 GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS. <br />Would the project: <br />a) Generate greenhouse gas emissions, either <br />directly or indirectly, that may have a <br />significant impact on the environment? <br />b) Conflict with an applicable plan, policy or <br />regulation adopted for the purpose of <br />reducing the emissions of greenhouse gases? <br />Project <br />Significant <br />Potentially <br />Adverse No <br />Peculiar <br />Impact not <br />Significant <br />Impact New <br />Impact that is <br />Analyzed as <br />Offsite or <br />More Severe Impact <br />not <br />Significant in <br />Cumulative <br />based on <br />Substantially <br />the Prior EIR <br />Impact not <br />Substantial <br />Mitigated by <br />Discussed <br />New <br />Uniformly <br />in the prior <br />Information <br />Applied <br />EIR <br />Policies <br />❑ <br />❑ <br />❑ <br />❑ <br />❑ <br />❑ <br />❑ <br />❑ <br />Summary of Impacts Identified in the GPU EIR <br />The Final Recirculated GPU EIR addressed greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) impacts on pages 5.7-31 <br />through 5.7-40. The GPU EIR determined that implementation of Mitigation Measure GHG-1 would ensure <br />that the City is tracking and monitoring the City's GHG emissions in order to chart a trajectory to achieve <br />the long-term, year 2050, GHG reduction goal set by Executive Order S-03-05. However, at this time, there <br />is no plan past 2030 that achieves the long-term GHG reduction goal established under Executive Order S- <br />03-05. As identified by the California Council on Science and Technology, the state cannot meet the 2050 <br />goal without major advancements in technology. Advancements in technology in the future could provide <br />additional reductions and allow the state and City to meet the 2050 goal, but in the meantime, the EIR <br />determined that impacts would be significant and unavoidable. The EIR included a mitigation measure to <br />require the City to update the Climate Action Plan every 5 years. However, this is not a project specific <br />mitigation measure, and not directly related to development projects. The EIR determined that the GPU <br />would not conflict with an applicable plan, policy, or regulation adopted for the purpose of reducing the <br />emissions of GHGs. <br />Impacts Associated with the Proposed Project <br />a) Generate greenhouse gas emissions, either directly or indirectly, that may have a significant impact <br />on the environment? <br />No New Impact. The GPU EIR describes (on page 5.7-20) that if project emissions are below the 3,000 <br />MTCO2e bright -line screening threshold, GHG emissions impacts would be considered less than significant. <br />The Project would result in direct emissions of GHGs from construction. The approximate quantity of daily <br />GHG emissions generated by construction equipment utilized to build the Project is provided in Table GHG- <br />1, Construction -Related Greenhouse Gas Emissions. As shown, the Project construction would result in <br />approximately 483 MTCO2e. Per SCAQMD methodology construction GHG emissions are amortized over <br />30 years, then added to the operational emissions. The amortized Project construction emissions would be <br />16 MTCO2e per year. <br />59 <br />