2014-028 - Approving General Plan Amendement No. 2014-01

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Climate City of Santa Ana -Park View at Town and Country Manor Draft EIR a different emission reduction target. Most of the measures target the transportation and electricity sectors. South Coast Air Quality Management District The project is within the South Coast Air Basin. The South Coast Air Quality Management District ( SCAQMD) has jurisdiction over the four counties within the South Coast Air Basin. The SCAQMD Board adopted Regulation XXVII, which has the following rules: • The purpose of Rule 2700 is to define terms and post global warming potentials. • The purpose of Rule 2701, SoCal Climate Solutions Exchange, is to establish a voluntary program to encourage, quantify, and certify voluntary, high quality certified greenhouse gas emission reductions in the SCAQMD. • Rule 2702, Greenhouse Gas Reduction Program, is to create a Greenhouse Gas Reduction Program for greenhouse gas emission reductions in the SCAQMD. The SCAQMD will fund projects through contracts in response to requests for proposals or purchase reductions from other parties. All reductions will follow approved protocols in the rule. The reductions can be purchased for a variety of uses. Projects funded through this program may also reduce criteria or toxic pollutants that can help local and regional air quality. 4.8.4 - Thresholds of Significance Pursuant to CEQA Guidelines 15064(h)(3), a Lead Agency may determine that a project's incremental contribution to a cumulative effect is not cumulatively considerable if the project would comply with the requirements in a previously approved plan or mitigation program that provides specific requirements that will avoid or substantially lessen the cumulative problem within the geographic area in which the project is located. Pursuant to the requirements in AB 32, a Seeping Plan was adopted, which outlines actions recommended to obtain the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2020. The Seeping Plan states, "The 2020 goal was established to be an aggressive, but achievable, mid -term target, and the 2050 greenhouse gas emissions reduction goal represents the level scientists believe is necessary to reach levels that will stabilize climate." The year 2020 goal of AB 32 corresponds with the mid -term target established by S -3 -05, which aims to reduce California's fair - share contribution of greenhouse gases in 2050 to levels that will stabilize the climate. The goal of reducing emissions by 80 percent by the year 2050 is not used in this analysis. To obtain those emission reductions, substantial emission reductions would need to occur in California, such as a conversion of alternative energy generation, conversion to electric and/or zero emission motor vehicles, and substantial changes to land use patterns and transportation. It is not the objective of this project to implement those things. In addition, there is currently no framework or methodology to analyze project -level contributions to climate change in relation to the 2050 emission reduction goal. 4.8 -6 Michael Brandman Associates H t( PNJN )b327b327WM%DEM%D32700306ee0 Clvre Ch ged