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SANTA ANA CLIMATE ACTION PLAN INITIAL STUDY CITY OF SANTA ANA Senate Bill 375 (SB 375), signed in September 2008, enhances California's ability to reach its AB 32 targets and aligns regional transportation planning efforts, regional GHG reduction targets, and land use and housing allocation. SB 375 requires Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) to adopt a Sustainable Communities Strategy (SCS) or an Alternative Planning Strategy (APS), which will prescribe land use allocation in that MPO's Regional Transportation Plan (RTP). ARB has established regional targets for 2020 and 2035 for each region covered by one of the state's 18 metropolitan planning organizations. The targets for the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG), where Santa Ana is located, are per capita COz emission reductions from passenger vehicles of 8% below 2005 levels by 2020, and 13% below 2005 levels by 2035. Many of the measures in this CAP help to implement strategies from the SCS in the City of Santa Ana. AB 32 and SB 375 do not place any requirements on local governments and also do not require that individual local governments reduce their community emissions to these levels. However, the AB 32 Seeping Plan prepared by ARB, maps out strategies for reaching the AB 32 targets and identifies an important role for local governments in implementing many of the strategies. Local governments are not currently required to adopt climate action plans, and these plans are just one of several approaches that agencies can use to address GHG emissions. 1.5 PROJECT OBJECTIVES In 2007, the City of Santa Ana signed the U.S. Mayors' Climate Protection Agreement, committing to reduce GHG emissions. Santa Ana, in addition to more than 1,000 local governments worldwide, joined ICLEI — Local Governments for Sustamability, an association for local governments to share knowledge and successful strategies toward increasing local sustainability. ICLEI provides a CAP framework and methodology for local governments to identify and reduce GHG emissions: 1. Conduct an inventory and forecast of local GI IG emissions; 2. Establish GHG emissions reduction targets; 3. Develop a CAP for achieving the emissions reduction targets; 4. Implement the CAP; and 5. Monitor and report on progress. As mentioned above, one of the steps in the framework is to develop a CAP to achieve reduction targets. The project objectives, derived from the framework and from the Scoping Plan, are expressed below. • Adopt a Climate Action Plan that will comply with and implement State law, citywide sustainability, and reflect community values. • Place the City on a path to reduce annual community -wide GHG emissions by 15% below 2008 baseline emission levels by 2020 and 30% by 2035. • Provide clear guidance to City staff and decision - makers regarding when and how to implement key actions to reduce GHG emissions. • Inspire residents and businesses to participate in community efforts to reduce GI IG emissions. October 2015 Page 5 75B -103