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1) 1 S T ii I c T
S I NC E 1955
ALAMEDA COUNTY
Torn Bates
(Chairperson)
Scott Haggerty
Jennifer Hbsteraian
Nate Miley
CONTRA COSTA C I OUNTY
John,,Gioia
(Vice - Chair)
bavid.H
Mark.'Ross
Gayle B. Uilkema
MARftCOUNTY
Harold C:-Brown, Jr.
NAPA COUNTY -
Brad VVageknecht
SAN'FRANCISCd-CdONTY
.John Avalos,
Edwin K Lee
uic Mar
SAN MATEO COUNTY
Carole. Grodn
Carol Klatt
SANTA CLARA COUNT
Y
SusbmGarner
Ash, K
(Secretary)
Liz Kniss
Ken Yeager
SOLANO COUNTY
James Spering
SONOMACOUNTY
SLJsan
Shirlee Zane
Jack P. Broa"&ent
EXECUTIVE OFFICtR/APCO
SWC
M.W
April 19J2011
heather .,Hin6s-
City:bfpeta`lruriia
Planning Division
I I - Efigfish Street
Petaluma, CA 949522
Subject; Deer Creek Village l)raft EIR
Dear Ms. Hines:
Bay Area AiT-QUalitS Managlement.District (District), staff reviewed the City: of
Petalu a's (eity's),Dtaft..En irofinieiitaI Impact-ROport (PEIR) for the Deer
CreekVil1age;pf(.),ect.(.I?roject). The Pro
J. ject, proposes the development Of
343,998:square feet of a mix of commercial land Lises on a currently vacant 36.55
acre site.adJac%.cnt;to highway 101 in Petaluma. The developed.' Project wilt
include a-hVine iniprovernent super store, four majb r anchor retail stores, Sibalfer
retail shops, a grocery store, pli , arm , acy fitness center, conin'iercial
office space and oOch space. The I)EIR.examines potential impacts to the
environment and. evaluates air quality impacts from the. Proj'ect the
construction and ojkrational phases of devel'opffibrit.
/Vfter,�aereview. of BAAQMD-staffljasthe fbllo.wij'lg comments
regarding -the ject's irnpact oil local and regional air quality.
,Short -terns Coiisti
T'lle DEIRstates that coastruetio.ii emissions will. exceed:the District
, 5ign ic.anc.e. threshold for NOx. I lie D.FJR identiftesonly limited mitigation
rneasu . res to,•edticcthis impact hi-Dur CEQA Guidelines, the District°
reconirriends ffiat ,M]..pibpbse'd projects," w here construction-rclated emissions
would exceed the, applicable significance 'threshold, .'inip,leilient the
Consti -Axlffl�iqtion jWeosuresjisted . i I n Tablc:9-3 Qf Guidelin&s. Di . striet
staff recorrinlends that. the . f inal I'M identil'y the full suite of Additional
("01IS11*11clion Aliligcllhjn A�feayiwes to minimize co I nstrLICtion impacts.
Long-sterill Qp6ratiorial Emissions
The l'btfRi has , identified significant and uninitigable impacts, associ ated with
greenhouse (61 emissions arid less than signific,arit'irnf.)acts associated
with ,.criterja. ,pollutants. Several factors. in' the analysis bf'v6liiele travel
'iat I
asso 11 t h e 16M4 operation ,. of the Project appear, to be based on
Linclear,osSUmptions. Lack of specificity differefifland-uses and other
I*kletihi) p
assbrft`tibiis niav have resulted in an underestimation of trim rates and
(VMT) resulting fforn the Pro'ect. District.-staff
belieVic, dic'ihpui Variables and land use categories used "in the URBEMIS
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1- 1eather l=ines -2- April 19, 201' 1
undetestii ate'the long- terrn . operational emissions from.this Project Specifically, the
DEIR's combining of different retail uses into three cate"got cos --" Home improvement superstore," "Free - standing discount stone," and "General office building ". under-
estimates the total number of trips that this Project would generate. This is because trip
rates vary - widely across different eonnnercial land use types and the three categories
%tsed for all proposed la ad;uses for this Project have trip rates that are, ail average; lower
than if they'were broken out into more specific land use categories (see land use
categories listed below).
In addition, it appears that the default values in URBEMIS for the vehicle fleet mix were
changed when producing the modeling runs used in the.DEIR (included ill Appendix J).
Neither the DEIR,nor.A.ppetdix J provides any justification for changing the fleet mix
values. District staff recommends that the URBLMIS default values for fleet mix be
used, or a justification for modifying these values be provided. -
District staff,produced an URBEMIS report on operational vehicle emission estimates
using the default vehicle mix values provided in URBEMIS. Staff's analysis also
included the square footage for a11" the specific commercial land uses described ill the
DEIR, including:
• Hoine iitzprovenieilt superstore
• Free - standing discount store
• RacquetbalI /health club (for fitness center)
• Quality restaurant .
• Supermarket
• Medical office building
• General. office building
• I'll armacy
Note. lcrncd uses 2asecz' in slqff's, vwlysis are illusti-a ive only — the final EIR should reflect
analvs'is'that is as specific as possible (e.g., defining the i as "quality, ' ''high
volume, " or• "'fast food ` o ap��ropr icrte).
Staffs modeling results'indicate that vehicle emissions from the Project would be above
the District's significance thresholds for criteria pollutants (see attached URBIMIS
report). Therefore, District staff recommends that additional mitigation measures for
GlIG and criteria pollutants be included in the Project. Examples of potential mitigation
measures include:
• Achieve energy efficiency performance that exceeds 2008 Title 24' standards by 20 %
• Rcquire on -site, renewable energy systems, such as wind turbines, solar photovoltaic or
soiar.hot'water floating systems (solar hot water heating is particularly applicable to the
restaurant and fitness center)
• Require cool roof and cool paving strategies for buildings and parking lots to minimize
Beat island impacts and reduce evaporative emissions
• Require mandatory recycling programs
• Require mandatory coinho.sting prograin forrestauraiit
Require cn to offer parking Cash -out and transit subsidies to cint loyees
• Unbundle parking costs from rents and leases
• Improve existing and/or construct new bus stops, shelters and pullouts
Heather Wines April 19, 201 1
• Provide additional transit or shuttle setwice
If you have any,,qucstio ns, please contact Abby Young, Principal Environmental Planner,
at (415) 749- 4754.
Sincerely,
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-, Roggen our p uty Air Pollution Control Officer
cc: BAAQMD Director Susan Gorin
BAAQMD Director Shirlee Zane