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Follow-Up Report Regarding City of San Leandro's Draft 2021 Climate Action Plan
Staffreport
BACKGROUND AND SUMMARY
The Planning Commission motioned to recommend approval of the Draft Climate Action Plan to City Council on June 3, 2021 with a summary of the Planning Commission's comments and recommendations. The Commission further directed staff to return with a summary of their comments at a subsequent meeting.
The Commissioner's comments are summarized below:
Chair Boldt
* Make action language more mandatory, include the CAP update to 5 years, time frames and benchmarks for actions
* Equity components are essential. Include mandatory contractor pre-qualifications for projects
Commissioner Breslin
* Make action language mandatory and more implementable with a road map
* Commit to Reach Code with mandatory EV parking and solar on new buildings, to be implemented a year from now
Vice Chair Pon
* Include concrete transportation actions, such as more bike lanes
* Make action language mandatory
* Give electric bikes/mopeds for people turning in old combustion engine vehicles
* The 2021 CAP did not provide a plan to achieve the 80% reduction in GHG emissions. The elephant in the room was Transportation (60%). To get to 80%, I asked you approximately how much would we need to reduce the Transportation (ICE) source? You guesstimate 2/3rds. My request was to lay out a plan that our City should implement to reach that 2/3rds reduction. If funding wasn't now available to implement, the Council should find that money. The other ideas mentioned were part of the Plan. If there isn't a plan to achieve that 80%, then exclude that 2050 objective from the plan.
Commissioner Solis
* Add a Resident Advisory Committee for the update of the next CAP
Commissioner Tejada
* Continue community outreach in person
* Include enforceable actions and make action language mandatory
* Highlight Complete Streets actions and work with regional agencies (ACTC, CalTrans) to ...
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