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SANTA ANA CLIMATE ACTION PLAN INITIAL STUDY CITY OF SANTA ANA institutional uses, and 2% to public parkland and open space. t The City is almost entirely built out, and new development would consist mostly of infill and redevelopment projects. 1.4 PROJECT BACKGROUND California has adopted a wide variety of regulations aimed at reducing the State's GHG emissions. The Governor is authorized to issue executive orders, or formal written directives, that typically only affect state agencies, departments, boards, and commissions. The executive orders can be used to enforce public policy embodied in the laws and Constitution. However, the Governor is limited in the use of executive orders, as they may not interfere or conflict with existing legislation. Executive Order S -3 -05, signed in June 2005, proclaimed that California is vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. To combat those concerns, the Executive Order established total GHG emissions targets. Specifically, emissions are to be reduced to year 2000 level by 2010, the 1990 level by 2020, and to 80% below the 1990 level by 2050. In 2006, this goal was reinforced with the passage of Assembly Bill (AB) 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act. AB 32 requires California to reduce statewide GHG emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. AB 32 directs the California Air Resources Board (ARB) to develop and implement regulations that reduce statewide GHG emissions. AB 32 further requires that the California Air Resources Board (ARB) create a plan that includes market mechanisms, and implement rules to achieve "real, quantifiable, cost - effective reductions of greenhouse gases." The Climate Change Scoping Plan (Seeping Plan) was approved by ARB in December 2008 and outlines the State's plan to achieve the GHG reductions required in AB 32. In the Scoping Plan, ARB encourages local governments to adopt a reduction goal for municipal operations emissions and move toward establishing similar goals for community emissions that parallel the State commitment to reduce GHGs. ARB is required to update the Scoping Plan at least once every 5 years to evaluate progress and develop future inventories that may guide this process. ARB approved the First Update to the Climate Change Scoping Plan: Building on the Framework in June 2014.2 The Scoping Plan update includes a status of the 2008 Scoping Plan measures and other state, federal, and local efforts to reduce GHG emissions in California and potential actions to further reduce GHG emissions by 2020. The Scoping Plan Update confirms that the state is on track to meet the 2020 emissions reduction target. In April 2015, Governor Edmund Brown issued Executive Order B -30 -15 establishing a statewide GHG reduction goal of 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030. The emission reduction target acts as an interim goal between the AB 32 goal (i.e., achieve 1990 emission levels by 2020) and Governor Brown's Executive Order S -03 -05 goal of reducing statewide emissions 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050. ' City of Santa Ana Planning Division. City of Santa Ana General Plan Land Use Element p. 6. Available online at hit � / /ww ci sania -ana cans /generalplan /documents /1 vtdLJse�12df, accessed September 2, 2015. - California Air Resources Board. First Update to the CNe Bate Change Scoping Plan: Building on the Framer ork. Adopted May 2014. Available online at: http : / /wwwarbcagov /ec /"scol2inlr121an /2013 update /first update climate change scoring nlan.pdf, accessed September 1, 2015. Page 4 October 2015 75B -102