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SANTA ANA CLIMATE ACTION PLAN INITIAL STUDY CITY OF SANTA ANA 1.6 PROJECT DESCRIPTION The proposed project is adoption of the CAP, a document that provides measures intended to reduce GHG omissions within the City. The CAP describes the 2008 baseline GHG emissions produced in Santa Ana and estunates business -as -usual emissions that could be expected in 2020 and 2035. GHG emissions were estimated for 2008, 2020, and 2035 for both cotmmunity -wide and municipal operations. The City has indirect ability to influence many sources and activities producing community -wide emissions, while it has more direct control over municipal operations emissions. Municipal operations emissions are a subset of community -wide emissions. Overall, the goal of the CAP is to reduce Santa Ana's community -wide GHG emissions by 15% below 2008 emission levels by the year 2020. In addition, Santa Ana has established a goal to place the City on a path to reduce community -wide emissions by 30% below 2008 emission levels by the year 2035. For municipal operations emissions, the City has established goals of 30% below 2008 ennission levels by 2020 and 40% below 2008 emission levels by 2035. The Draft CAP identifies measures that have a quantifiable emissions reduction and also includes recommended action steps, co- benefits, cost, and funding sources. The Draft CAP is the result of extensive co rimunity outreach and public participation. An initial public engagement session was held in March 2012, where participants suggested potential emissions reduction measures to be included in the CAP. The measures gathered were then analyzed for feasibility and assessed by City staff. The working list of measures was presented to key stakeholders and to the public in additional workshops in Judy 2014. Feedback from these sessions was incorporated, resulting in the measures included in the CAP. 1.6.1 EMISSIONS INVENTORY, BASELINE AND PROJECTIONS To establish an effective baseline for the CAP, the City used the "Local Government Significant Influence" frame, which includes those emissions sources and activities that the City government has significant ability to influence through regulation, incentives, or other measures. GHG emissions were calculated for both community -wide and municipal operations sources for 2008 based on activity data (i.e., energy consumption, vehicle miles traveled) for each emission sector. In 2008, emissions from community -wide sources and activities in Santa Ana were approximately 1.96 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents (MMTCO,e). As shown in Figure 3, transportation and land use activities were the largest emissions sources and contributed approximately 48% of Santa Ana's annual GHG emissions. Energy use within buildings contributed approximately 42% of Santa Ana's community -wide GHG emissions. Solid waste generation contributed approximately 3 %, water and wastewater contributed approximately 3 %, and the remaining 4% was classified as other. Page 6 October 2015 75B -104