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Staff Report for a Resolution of the San Leandro City Council Adopting an Addendum to the San Leandro 2035 General Plan Environmental Impact Report and a Resolution of the San Leandro City Council Adopting the City of San Leandro 2021 Climate Action Plan
Staffreport
RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends that the City Council open a public hearing and take comments, then adopt the Addendum to the San Leandro 2035 General Plan EIR and adopt the City of San Leandro 2021 Climate Action Plan.
BACKGROUND
The scope of work for the General Plan 2035 contract with DCE | Planning Center (now known as PlaceWorks) included updating the City of San Leandro's 2009 Climate Action Plan (CAP) for the target year of 2020. The work was not yet started during the adoption of General Plan 2035 due to a shift in priorities to complete a Zoning Code Update concurrent with the General Plan 2035 adoption in 2016. With the impending retirement of the Sustainability Manager at the time, the decision was made to separate out the CAP update from the General Plan update in order to align with the new state greenhouse gas (GHG) targets and defer the work until the new Sustainability Manager was hired.
In 2017, the State of California released its Scoping Plan that outlined new GHG reduction goals for the target years of 2030 and 2050. In 2019, the City Council adopted its 2030 and 2050 GHG emissions reduction targets of 40% and 80% respectively, to conform to the State's reduction goals, which are science-based and vetted for cost-effectiveness and feasibility. To this end, the City's 2009 CAP has been updated to address the 2030 and 2050 GHG reduction targets and to qualify for California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) streamlining under Section 15183.5 of the CEQA guidelines.
The 2021 CAP includes the following key components for climate mitigation and GHG emissions reduction:
A. Quantification of GHG emissions with baseline and future forecast inventories;
B. Establishment o...
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