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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2023-05-09; City Council; ; Climate Action Plan Annual Report for the Reporting Period 6, Jan. 1, 2022 – Dec. 31, 2022CA Review GH Meeting Date: May 9, 2023 To: Mayor and City Council From: Scott Chadwick, City Manager Staff Contact: Katie Hentrich, Senior Program Manager katie.hentrich@carlsbadca.gov, 442-339-2623 Subject: Climate Action Plan Annual Report for the Reporting Period 6, Jan. 1, 2022 – Dec. 31, 2022 Districts: All Recommended Action Adopt a resolution accepting the Climate Action Plan Annual Report for the Reporting Period 6, Jan. 1, 2022 – Dec. 31, 2022. Executive Summary In 2015, the City of Carlsbad was among the first cities in the county to adopt a qualified climate action plan, which outlines strategies and policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and establishes emissions reduction targets for 2020 and 2035. The city implemented several programs, updated city laws and policies, and took other steps to surpass the Climate Action Plan’s 2020 target, which was to reduce greenhouse gases 44% below 2012 levels. The Climate Action Plan’s target for 2035 is to reduce emissions by 52% below 2012 levels. As part of the Climate Action Plan’s implementation, staff report annually on its progress. This report summarizes those activities and results for the calendar year 2022. During that year, staff continued to implement the existing Climate Action Plan measures and actions to work toward meeting the 2035 greenhouse gas reduction target while continuing work on a comprehensive update to the plan that will further highlight the city’s commitment to sustainability and protecting the environment and natural resources. Explanation & Analysis The Climate Action Plan was developed to help the city meet state-mandated goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and to meet the community’s goal of promoting a sustainable environment. The plan includes a greenhouse gas inventory to identify the magnitude of emissions within the city, and to forecast what those emissions will be in coming years. The plan also includes a range of measures and actions the city must pursue to reach its emissions reduction targets. On July 14, 2020, the City Council adopted Resolution No. 2020-146, approving an amendment to the plan revising the greenhouse gas inventory, reduction targets and forecast, updating the May 9, 2023 Item #9 Page 1 of 52 anticipated reductions from existing measures and incorporating community choice energy1 as a new reduction measure. The City Council also approved a related addendum to the plan’s environmental impact report. Progress in 2022 The city continued to make progress on implementing the Climate Action Plan during 2022. Notable accomplishments included: • Launched the Home Energy Score Assessment pilot program, which provides free energy assessments to Carlsbad residents o 21 households participated in the pilot program during 2022 • Completed measures and actions related to: o Promoting cost-effective energy improvements to residents o Conducting energy-efficiency retrofits of city facilities o Increasing the low- and zero-emission city fleet-related vehicle miles traveled o Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from water utilities o Providing links for a greywater design reference manual • Continued implementation of: o City ordinances related to energy efficiency, solar photovoltaic energy, wiring for electric vehicle charging and alternative water heating in new construction and major renovations o The Carlsbad Green Business Program, which encourages businesses to conserve energy, water and other resources and recognizes their successes in those efforts. Eight more businesses were certified in 2022, bringing the total to 14. o The city’s Transportation Demand Management ordinance, which requires businesses of a certain size to prepare a plan to reduce the number of single- occupant vehicle trips by employees o Climate Action Plan measures and actions related to:  Energy-efficiency retrofits at city facilities  Installation of electric vehicle charging stations at city facilities  Purchasing plug-in hybrid and electric fleet vehicles • Began work with a #CaliforniansForAll College Corps climate fellow • Coordinated with regional partners such as the San Diego Association of Governments other local jurisdictions and the San Diego Regional Climate Collaborative More implementation details are included in Attachment A to Exhibit 1. Status of the Climate Action Plan update The Climate Action Plan needs to be updated to further study which actions are necessary so that the city to continue progress toward its climate and sustainability goals and targets. Staff have been preparing a comprehensive update to the Climate Action Plan, an effort that began at the end of 2021. This update will continue to align the plan with updated state legislation and targets, further implement the city’s Sustainability Guiding Principles and Community Value of Sustainability, and support the actions identified in the Declaration of Climate Emergency, 1 Community choice energy refers to cities and counties buying electricity on behalf of their residents and businesses, which enables them to select more environmentally friendly energy sources than are offered by existing investor-owned utility companies. May 9, 2023 Item #9 Page 2 of 52 which was approved by the City Council on Sept. 21, 2021, and the Carlsbad Strategic Plan (2023-2027), which was approved by the City Council on Oct. 11, 2022. The city has a professional services agreement with both the Energy Policy Initiatives Center and Ascent Environmental to evaluate the city’s Climate Action Plan and prepare an updated document. In 2022, the consultant’s team and staff completed Phase I of public engagement, which is shown in Exhibit 3, continued meeting with staff from multiple departments and began assessing possible measures and actions to include in the update. On April 19, 2022, the City Council directed staff to use a customized run of SANDAG’s most recent activity-based model in the Climate Action Plan update to forecast the impact of potential actions. This was done to align with the land use assumptions and analysis prepared to support the Housing Element rezoning program, as well as to avoid additional staff time and consultant costs.2 This allowed for the same data to be used for all related documents and plans. Since then, several delays have occurred; the most recent City Council memorandum on the implementation of the 2021-2029 Housing Element, dated Nov. 3, 2022, is included as Exhibit 4. Community Engagement During the reporting period, Phase I of public engagement for the Climate Action Plan update was completed and is included in Exhibit 3. Phase I incorporated input from the city’s effort to develop its 5-Year Strategic Plan, in addition to conducting stakeholder interviews with specific audiences. The city also began participating in the #CaliforniansForAll College Corps Program, a volunteer service initiative that pairs college students with local governments and community-based organizations. The city was paired with a fellow from the University of San Diego who supported several outreach activities related to the Climate Action Plan, attending such events as: • Carlsbad Village Street Faire • Fix-it clinics • EGGStravaganza • Earth Month celebration and compost giveaway The activities at these events focused on educating community members on things they can do to support sustainability in their everyday lives, connecting those actions to the Climate Action Plan. Activities were tailored for each audience to encourage participants to think about new sustainable behaviors they can incorporate into their routines. Fiscal Analysis There is no fiscal impact associated with this report. Next Steps Staff plan to present a suite of measures for possible inclusion in the draft update of the Climate Action Plan to the City Council for its consideration in late summer 2023. After staff and our consultants complete any revisions, the formal draft of the Climate Action Plan Update and 2 The Housing Element is the state-mandated part of the city’s General Plan that demonstrates how it will meet the housing needs of everyone in the community. May 9, 2023 Item #9 Page 3 of 52 environmental document will be released for public review, followed by presenting the final Climate Action Plan Update to City Council for adoption. Staff anticipate that the Climate Action Plan Update will be completed by early to mid-2024. Staff will continue to implement the existing Climate Action Plan and provide project updates to the City Council. Staff will also continue to conduct public outreach throughout the Climate Action Plan update process. Environmental Evaluation The California Environmental Quality Act and its implementing regulations, the CEQA Guidelines, adopted by the Secretary of the California Natural Resources Agency, list classes of projects that have been determined not to have a significant effect on the environment and as a result are exempt from further environmental review under CEQA. The City Planner has determined that this report is statutorily exempt from the requirements of CEQA under CEQA Guidelines sections 15378(b)(5), which exempts organizational or administrative activities of governments that will not result in direct or indirect changes to the environment. The organizational and administrative activity relates to annually reporting on the Climate Action Plan. This general direction does not have a legally binding effect on any possible future discretionary action. Exhibits 1.City Council resolution 2.Climate Action Plan, as amended in 2020 (on file in the Office of the City Clerk) 3.Council Memorandum - Status of the Climate Action Plan dated Sept. 15, 2022 (on file in the Office of the City Clerk) 4.Council Memorandum on Housing Element Implementation Status Update dated Nov. 3, 2022 May 9, 2023 Item #9 Page 4 of 52 RESOLUTION NO. 2023-125 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CARLSBAD, CALIFORNIA, ACCEPTING THE CLIMATE ACTION PLAN ANNUAL REPORT FOR THE REPORTING PERIOD 6, JAN. 1, 2022 -DEC. 31, 2022 WHEREAS, in 2006, the Legislature passed the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, Assembly Bill 32, or AB 32, which created a comprehensive, multi-year program to reduce greenhouse gas, or GHG, emissions in California; and WHEREAS, AB 32 required the California Air Resources Board to develop a Scoping plan that describes the approach for California to take to reduce GHGs to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020; and WHEREAS, the scoping plan was first approved by the California Air Resources Board in 2008, and must be updated at least every five years, and was subsequently updated in 2013, 2017 and 2022; and WHEREAS, on Sept. 22, 2015, the City Council adopted a Climate Action Plan, or CAP, along with the General Plan Update and associated environmental impact report with Resolution Nos. 2015-244 and 2015-242, respectively; and WHEREAS, the purpose of the CAP is to describe how greenhouse gas emissions within the City of Carlsbad will be reduced in accordance with statewide targets, and the statewide targets used for the CAP are derived from the Governor's Executive Order S-3-05, AB 32, and scoping plans approved by CARB; and WHEREAS, on July 14, 2020, the City Council adopted Resolution No. 2020-146, approving the Climate Action Plan Amendment No. 1, which revised greenhouse gas inventory, reduction targets and forecasts, updated reductions from existing measures and incorporated community choice energy as a new greenhouse gas reduction measure; and WHEREAS, the CAP calls for annual monitoring and preparation of an annual report to be presented to the City Council at a public meeting; and WHEREAS, staff have prepared the Annual Report for Reporting Period 6, Jan. 1, 2022 -Dec. 31, 2022. Exhibit 1 May 9, 2023 Item #9 Page 5 of 52 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Carlsbad, California, as follows: 1.That the above recitations are true and correct.2.That the City Council hereby accepts the Climate Action Plan Annual Report forReporting Period 6, Jan. 1, 2022 -Dec. 31, 2022, attached as Attachment A. PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED at a Regular Meeting of the City Council of the City of Carlsbad on the 9th day of May, 2023, by the following vote, to wit: AYES: NAYS: ABSTAIN: ABSENT: Blackburn, Bhat-Patel, Acosta, Burkholder, Luna. None. None. None. KEITH BLACKBURN, Mayor i?Wk j_ SHERRY FREISINGER, City Clerk r�(SEAL) May 9, 2023 Item #9 Page 6 of 52 City of Carlsbad Climate Action Plan Annual Report Reporting Period 6: Jan 1, 2022 – Dec. 31, 2022 May 9, 2023 City of Carlsbad Environmental Sustainability 1635 Faraday Avenue Carlsbad, CA 92008 Contact: Katie Hentrich, Climate Action Plan Administrator katie.hentrich@carlsbadca.gov; 442-339-2623 Attachment A May 9, 2023 Item #9 Page 7 of 52 C cityof Carlsbad This page intentionally left blank. May 9, 2023 Item #9 Page 8 of 52 Table of Contents Page I. Executive Summary ........................................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined. II. Background ................................................................................................................................2 III. CAP Measures and Actions ..........................................................................................................6 IV. Monitoring ............................................................................................................................... 10 V. GHG Emissions Inventories ........................................................................................................ 17 VI. CAP Update .............................................................................................................................. 19 VII. Conclusion ................................................................................................................................ 20 Appendix A ........................................................................................................................................ i Tables and Figures Page Figure 1 – GHG Emissions Baseline, Reductions, and Targets ...................................................................... 1 Figure 2 – AR6 CAP Action Status ................................................................................................................. 4 Figure 3 – 2012 Community GHG Emissions by Sector ................................................................................. 4 Table 1 – 2012 Community GHG Emissions by Sector .................................................................................. 4 Figure 4 – Sample CAP Projections and Targets ........................................................................................... 5 Table 2 – CAP Measures and GHG Reductions ............................................................................................. 6 Table 3 – PV System Installations in Reporting Period 6 (Jan. 1, 2022 – Dec. 31, 2022) ............................ 10 Figure 5 – Residential PV Installations to Date ........................................................................................... 11 Figure 6 – Non-Residential PV Installations and CAP Projections and Targets ........................................... 12 Figure 7 – CVRP Participation in Carlsbad – March 2011 through Nov. 2022 ............................................ 13 Table 4 – CVRP Participation in Carlsbad – Jan. 1, 2022 to Nov. 29, 2022 ................................................. 13 Figure 8 – City of Carlsbad Bikeway Classification 2022 ............................................................................. 15 Figure 9 – 2016 Community GHG Emissions by Sector ............................................................................... 18 Figure 10 – 2018 Community GHG Emissions by Sector ............................................................................. 18 Figure 11 – 2016, 2018, and 2020 Community GHG Emissions by Sector .................................................. 19 May 9, 2023 Item #9 Page 9 of 52 This page intentionally left blank. May 9, 2023 Item #9 Page 10 of 52 Carlsbad CAP Annual Report Reporting Period 6, Jan. 2022-Dec. 2022 Page 1 May 9, 2023 I. Executive Summary The purpose of this document is to provide an update on the status of implementation of the Climate Action Plan (CAP) that occurred during the most recent reporting period. The CAP requires that the city annually monitor and report on CAP implementation activities and present this report to the City Council in a public meeting. This annual report for Year 6 (AR6) covers the period from Jan. 1, 2022 to Dec. 31, 2022. The CAP established a 2012 baseline of 977,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MTCO2e). This baseline was used to project greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions into the future and set targets within the CAP; specifically, the CAP sets goals to reduce GHG emissions by 4% below the 2012 baseline by 2020 (a reduction of approximately 39,080 MTCO2e) and 52% below baseline by 2035 (a reduction of approximately 508,040 MTCO2e). The most recent complete GHG inventory from 20181 shows the city surpassing its 2020 targets with a 4.8% reduction in GHG emissions (a reduction of approximately 47,000 MTCO2e), as seen in Figure 1. Figure 1. GHG Emissions Baseline, Reductions, and Targets 1 More details on this and other GHG inventories are included in Section VI. 977,000 937,920 468,960 0 200,000 400,000 600,000 800,000 1,000,000 1,200,000 20 1 2 20 1 3 20 1 4 20 1 5 20 1 6 20 1 7 20 1 8 20 1 9 20 2 0 20 2 1 20 2 2 20 2 3 20 2 4 20 2 5 20 2 6 20 2 7 20 2 8 20 2 9 20 3 0 20 3 1 20 3 2 20 3 3 20 3 4 20 3 5 MT C O 2e Year CAP Baseline & Targets 2018 Inventory 930,000 May 9, 2023 Item #9 Page 11 of 52 Carlsbad CAP Annual Report Reporting Period 6, Jan. 2022 – Dec. 2022 Page 2 May 9, 2023 The CAP includes measures and actions that the city must pursue to meet its GHG reduction targets. There are 12 measures and 35 actions included in the CAP2. Through Year 6, 16 actions have been completed, 16 are in progress and on schedule, 2 are in progress and delayed, and 1 action has no progress3. Figure 2 shows this information as percentages. Figure 2. AR6 CAP Action Status II. Background The City of Carlsbad’s CAP was adopted on Sept. 22, 2015, along with the General Plan Update and associated Environmental Impact Report (EIR). The purpose of the CAP is to describe how GHG emissions within Carlsbad will be reduced in accordance with statewide targets. The CAP was updated and amended on July 14, 2020 (CAP Amendment No. 1). This amendment revised the GHG inventory and reduction targets and forecast, updated reductions from existing measures, added a new reduction measure, and incorporated new regional and statewide 2 A list of CAP measures can be found in Table 2 and implementation status of each measure and action can be found in Appendix A. 3 Actions categorized as “completed” met the implementation goals in the time indicated in the CAP; however, some of these actions continue to be implemented and are denoted as such. Actions with an “ongoing” implementation timeframe were assumed to be “in progress” versus “completed”, since implementation of the measures continues for the duration of CAP implementation. 46% 46% 5% 3% Completed (16 measures) In progress, on schedule (16 measures) In progress, delayed (2 measures) No progress (1 measure) May 9, 2023 Item #9 Page 12 of 52 ■ ■ ■ ■ Carlsbad CAP Annual Report Reporting Period 6, Jan. 2022 – Dec. 2022 Page 3 May 9, 2023 guidance and protocols; an Addendum to the EIR was also prepared. Since CAP Amendment No. 1 is the currently adopted CAP, its details are reflected throughout this report. Chapter 2 of the CAP contains information about the 2012 GHG inventory. A GHG inventory identifies the major sources and overall magnitude of GHG emissions in the city using standard modeling methods and protocols. Typical inputs include electricity consumed, natural gas consumed, vehicles miles traveled (VMT), solid waste disposed, wastewater treated, and potable and recycled water used. Chapter 3 of the CAP contains a discussion of the forecasting used to determine the city’s GHG targets for 2020 and 2035, as well as the GHG reductions anticipated by state and federal policies and certain General Plan policies. Chapter 4 of the CAP describes the additional measures and Actions that the city must pursue to reach its GHG emissions reduction targets. To implement these additional measures and Actions, the city needed to identify and allocate appropriate funding. Therefore, subsequent to CAP adoption, staff contracted with University of San Diego’s Energy Policy Initiatives Center (EPIC) to study incremental internal costs to the city for CAP implementation. All the participating city departments and divisions were surveyed to quantify the resources needed to effectively implement the CAP. On Feb. 23, 2016, staff presented the findings of the study to City Council and noted that these costs would be included in subsequent departmental budget requests. Most recently, on Oct. 11, 2022, the City Council approved the Five-Year Strategic Plan with policy goals to reflect the most important priorities of the community, with sustainability and the natural environment included as one of those values. GHG emissions are included as a key performance indicator and implementation of the CAP is listed as a strategic objective. CAP implementation is a team effort involving several city departments and divisions, coordinated by the CAP Administrator. The interdepartmental CAP implementation team consists of: Public Works (PW) Branch – General Services, Traffic and Mobility, Environmental Sustainability and Utilities; Community Services – Community Development, Parks & Recreation; Administrative Services - Finance, City Attorney; and City Manager - Communications. Team members coordinate on an ongoing basis to discuss CAP implementation activities and opportunities for collaboration. Figure 3 and Table 1 below show the 2012 GHG emissions graphically and in tabular form for the entire city, including emissions from both municipal operations and the community. Municipal operations constitute approximately 1% of all GHG emissions. Since there are several different types of GHGs, GHG emissions are typically expressed in MTCO2e to allow for standardization and comparison. May 9, 2023 Item #9 Page 13 of 52 Carlsbad CAP Annual Report Reporting Period 6, Jan. 2022 – Dec. 2022 Page 4 May 9, 2023 Figure 3 – 2012 Community GHG Emissions by Sector Table 1 – 2012 Community GHG Emissions by Sector Emissions Category GHG Emissions (MTCO2e) Percentage of Total Emissions (%) On-Road Transportation 488,000 49.9 Electricity 301,000 30.8 Natural Gas 134,000 13.7 Solid Waste 25,000 2.5 Off-Road Transportation 14,000 1.4 Water 12,000 1.2 Wastewater 3,000 <1 Total 977,000 100 Emissions in each category are rounded. Sum may not add up to totals due to rounding. Energy Policy Initiatives Center, 2020 Of the total emissions in 2012, 97% are attributed to the residential, commercial, industrial, and transportation sectors (e.g., buildings, automobiles). This emissions profile by sector is typical of other cities; therefore, like most other CAPs, Carlsbad’s CAP focuses primarily on GHG emissions reduction strategies in these sectors. Forecasts for the Carlsbad CAP were conducted for 2020 and 2035 GHG emissions by EPIC. The CAP used the 2012 inventory as the baseline. The first step in forecasting is to determine what 50% 31% 14% 3%1%1%0% On-Road Transportation Electricity Natural Gas Solid Waste Off-Road Transportation Water Wastewater Energy Policy Initiatives Center, 2020 >1% May 9, 2023 Item #9 Page 14 of 52 ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ Carlsbad CAP Annual Report Reporting Period 6, Jan. 2022 – Dec. 2022 Page 5 May 9, 2023 is known as the “Business-As-Usual” (BAU) projection. This projection is the amount of GHG emissions increase anticipated over time due to population and job growth and vehicular traffic levels. The forecast then deducts the anticipated emissions reductions derived from state and federal policies, such as low carbon fuel standards, building energy code requirements, and requirements for utilities to provide electricity from renewable energy sources; these reductions are known as the “legislatively-adjusted BAU”, as shown in Figure 4. Figure 4. Sample CAP projections and targets The Carlsbad CAP considered another category of anticipated GHG emissions reduction from the BAU and legislatively-adjusted BAU projections: additional General Plan policies and actions. These policies and actions deal with the transportation sector and include bikeway and pedestrian system improvements, traffic calming, parking facilities and policies, and transportation system improvements. After deducting these anticipated GHG emissions reductions from the BAU projection, the model then calculates the amount of additional GHG emissions reductions needed to reach the 2020 and 2035 targets. The statewide targets used for the CAP are taken from Executive Order (EO) S-3-05 and the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, Assembly Bill (AB) 32. Collectively they call for a reduction to 1990 levels by 2020 and 80% below 1990 levels by 2050. For Carlsbad, the targets are 4% below the 2012 baseline by 2020 and 52% below the 2012 baseline by 2035. Prior to 2020, Carlsbad had surpassed the reductions needed to meet the 2020 goal. The additional GHG emissions reductions necessary to reach the targets are known as the CAP measures; these measures are noted in Table 2. Each measure has actions, which once implemented by the city, should result in the modeled GHG emissions reductions, also shown in May 9, 2023 Item #9 Page 15 of 52 "' z 0 "' "' ~ w (:> :i:: (:> GHG EMISSIONS PROJECTIONS AFTER FEDERAL AND STATE POLICIES TIME (YEARS) BAU GHG EMISSIONS PROJECTIONS LEGISLATIVELY- ADJUSTED BAU REDUCTION AFTER LOCAL CAP MEASURES SANDAG 2018 Carlsbad CAP Annual Report Reporting Period 6, Jan. 2022 – Dec. 2022 Page 6 May 9, 2023 Table 2. Since CAP Amendment No. 1 removed some of the measures included in the 2015 CAP, the measures have some letters “missing.” Table 2 – CAP Measures and GHG Reductions Measure Letter GHG Reduction Measures GHG Reductions in 2035 (MTCO2e) B Install commercial and industrial PV systems 4,457 D Encourage single-family residential efficiency retrofits 7,986 E Encourage multi-family residential efficiency retrofits 3,993 F Encourage commercial and city facility efficiency retrofits 7,579 I Replace Incandescent bulbs with LED bulbs 22 J New construction residential and commercial solar water heater/heat pump installation & retrofit of existing residential 2,813 K Promote Transportation Demand Management 6,325 L Increase zero-emissions vehicle travel 49,912 M Develop more citywide renewable energy projects 2,774 N Reduce the GHG intensity of water supply conveyance, treatment and delivery 713 O Encourage the installation of greywater and rainwater systems 137 P Implement Community Choice Energy 56,207 Total GHG Reductions 142,918 III. CAP Measures and Actions The CAP measures listed in Table 2 can be grouped into four strategy areas: Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy (including Clean Electricity), Transportation, and Water. For each of the May 9, 2023 Item #9 Page 16 of 52 Carlsbad CAP Annual Report Reporting Period 6, Jan. 2022 – Dec. 2022 Page 7 May 9, 2023 measures, there are detailed actions that, taken together, should result in the anticipated GHG emissions reductions. The following section describes the progress made by the city in implementing the CAP measures and actions, organized by the different strategy areas. A more detailed description of activities conducted for each CAP action, along with the 2035 performance goals for each measure, is contained in Appendix A of this report. The activities involving public outreach and education are described in a separate section, since those efforts encompass all strategy areas. A. Energy Efficiency Energy efficiency is an important component to reducing energy consumption and lowering GHG emissions. The State of California’s Energy Commission (CEC) has adopted a “loading order,” or a prioritized list of actions needed to reduce energy use, and energy efficiency is at the top of the list. For Carlsbad, energy efficiency CAP measures account for approximately 15%4 of the planned GHG emissions reductions. Measures D, E, F, and I all deal with energy efficiency, both in community and municipal operations. These measures call for ordinances mandating energy efficiency improvements in residential and non-residential construction, implementation of energy conservation measures in city facilities, and promotion of energy efficiency rebate and incentive programs. During the reporting period, staff continued to make progress in implementing the energy efficiency related measures, including the energy efficiency ordinances for major renovations of existing residential and non-residential buildings. Data from these ordinances is tracked through the city’s permitting system, EnerGov, in a separate “CAP tab.” The city also continues to seek energy efficiency upgrades in municipal buildings. In 2022, construction of Fire Station 2 was completed; 15.967 kW of solar was installed, along with a solar water heating system and two electric vehicle (EV) charging stations. Also, two EV charging stations were installed as part of the Poinsettia Community Park Phase IV Project. B. Renewable Energy The provision of energy through distributed renewable sources can significantly reduce the need for electricity from the grid and, therefore, lower GHG emissions. The CEC’s loading order prioritization of energy efficiency is to lessen the amount of energy used, thereby minimizing the size and cost of the renewable energy system needed to power the building. According to the CAP, renewable energy measures will account for approximately 46%5 of the planned GHG emissions reductions. 4 This value is rounded. 5 This value is rounded. May 9, 2023 Item #9 Page 17 of 52 Carlsbad CAP Annual Report Reporting Period 6, Jan. 2022 – Dec. 2022 Page 8 May 9, 2023 Measures B, J, M, and P relate to community and city renewable energy improvements and increasing the amount of renewable energy on the electrical grid. These measures include ordinances requiring solar photovoltaic (PV) systems in new non-residential construction and existing commercial buildings, alternative energy water heating systems, citywide renewable energy projects, promotion of renewable energy rebate and incentive programs, and participation in a community choice energy program. During the reporting period, staff continued implementing the city’s renewable energy ordinances. These require installation of solar PV panels for all new residential and non- residential development and major renovations of existing residential and non-residential buildings, as well as alternative energy water heating for all new residential and non-residential development. Data from these ordinances is tracked through EnerGov. During the reporting period, the Clean Energy Alliance (CEA) continued to operate. CEA is a community choice energy program that allows for local control of electricity procurement and an increase in the proportion of renewable energy serving its customers. Several jurisdictions joined CEA in 2022, and CEA is now currently comprised of Carlsbad, Del Mar, Escondido, Oceanside, San Marcos, and Solana Beach. CEA anticipates reaching 100% clean electricity by 2030. C. Transportation There are two primary facets of GHG emissions reductions related to transportation. The first is to reduce the number of miles a vehicle is driven. Reducing the length of trips and/or the need to use a motorized vehicle can significantly reduce GHG emissions. The second facet is to reduce or eliminate the GHG emissions coming from vehicles. Known as low- or zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs), these automobiles include alternative-fueled vehicles, hybrids, and EVs. In the CAP, transportation-related measures account for approximately 39%6 of the planned GHG emissions reductions. Measures K and L address transportation related GHG emissions reductions. Measure K relates to reducing VMT and is closely tied to policies contained in the General Plan Mobility Element. During the reporting period, staff continued implementing the Transportation Demand Management (TDM) ordinance for non-residential development that meets the ordinance’s trip threshold; data from this ordinance is tracked through EnerGov. Staff also continued implementing elements of the TDM Plan, including outreach on CarlsbadCommuter.com, creation of resources to support hybrid work, outreach through the Move Carlsbad initiative, and e-bike education and bike education tours. Also, the city’s TDM Handbook was updated to 6 This value is rounded. May 9, 2023 Item #9 Page 18 of 52 Carlsbad CAP Annual Report Reporting Period 6, Jan. 2022 – Dec. 2022 Page 9 May 9, 2023 include additional TDM measures as well as new requirements specific to residential projects that shall require TDM plans. Measure L involves reducing tailpipe emissions through an increase in the proportion of low and ZEVs on the road. Staff continued implementation of an ordinance requiring installation of EV charging infrastructure for all new residential and non-residential development and major renovations of existing residential buildings; data for this ordinance is tracked in EnerGov. During the reporting period, staff issued purchase orders for the purchase of six plug-in hybrid fleet EVs. Two EV charging stations were built at the new Fire Station 2, as well as two EV charging stations as part of the Poinsettia Community Park Phase IV Project. After the reporting period but prior to the publishing of this report, SDG&E began construction of the City Council approved Fleet DC Fast Charging stations, with an expected completion in February 2023. D. Water Water conservation can lower GHG emissions because movement of water and wastewater requires energy. Measures N and O promote increasing energy efficiency in the potable water, recycled water, and wastewater conveyance systems and using greywater and rainwater collection systems. In the Carlsbad CAP, water measures account for less than 1%7 of the planned GHG emissions reductions. The Carlsbad Municipal Water District (CMWD) analyzes energy usage of their pumps and endeavors to increase energy efficiency of equipment whenever it is replaced. Implementation of the Actions associated with measures N and O will continue in the mid- to long-term timeframe. E. Public Outreach and Education In addition to the provision of energy-efficient buildings or the availability of PV systems and electric vehicles, a critical component to reducing GHG emissions is encouraging members of the public to engage in behaviors that reduce GHG emissions. Bike lanes, pedestrian improvements, and transit expansion only reduce GHG emissions if people use them. Measures D, E, F, and I all contain Actions related to public outreach and education. During the reporting period, staff from multiple departments conducted public outreach and education on a number of topics, including but not limited to: traffic safety (for drivers, bikers, and pedestrians), the CAP Update, sustainability components of the Five Year Strategic Plan, sustainable materials management, the city’s green business program, and the city’s home energy score assessment pilot program. Staff also continued maintaining the city’s website with information on rebates and incentives for energy efficiency, renewable energy, and EVs for both residential and commercial consumers. 7 This value is rounded. May 9, 2023 Item #9 Page 19 of 52 Carlsbad CAP Annual Report Reporting Period 6, Jan. 2022 – Dec. 2022 Page 10 May 9, 2023 IV. Monitoring Monitoring of CAP implementation can be divided into three general areas: 1) progress on implementing the CAP Actions; 2) progress on reaching the CAP measures’ performance goals; and 3) progress in reaching the CAP GHG emissions reductions targets for 2035. A detailed description of the activities undertaken to implement the CAP Actions is contained in Appendix A. Regarding the CAP measures and their corresponding performance goals, there is variability in the monitoring data sources. For example, monitoring for measures D, E and F require San Diego Gas and Electric (SDG&E) electric and natural gas energy usage. Monitoring for Measure P requires CEA usage data. Monitoring for Measure L requires VMT model output data. This data will be collected during the biannual GHG inventory process, conducted by SANDAG, and reported in the corresponding CAP Annual Report. A. Renewable Energy Measure B involves increasing the amount of solar PV systems in Carlsbad. Data for the reporting period were obtained from the permit via EnerGov. Table 3 shows the number and capacity in kilowatts (kW) of PV system installations in the residential and non-residential sectors during the reporting period. Table 3 – PV System Installations in Reporting Period 6 (Jan. 1, 2022 – Dec. 31, 2022) Sector Total Finaled Permits (#) Total Capacity (kW) Highest Capacity Project (kW) Lowest Capacity Project (kW) Median Project Capacity (kW) Residential 1,603 34,924.73 19.62 1.05 6.09 Non-residential 15 3,017.17 1,084 2.88 105 Figures 5 and 6 show the residential and non-residential PV installations as they relate to the CAP projections and target. The data were obtained from SDG&E grid interconnections and the city’s EnerGov system. As of January 2020, the California building code requires PV in new residential construction, which is a contributing factor to the increase in residential PV. Because of this legislation, CAP Amendment No. 1 removed the residential PV measure and subsequent target. However, Figure 5 shows the residential PV installations over time based on available data; through 2022, 82.956 MW have been installed. May 9, 2023 Item #9 Page 20 of 52 Carlsbad CAP Annual Report Reporting Period 6, Jan. 2022 – Dec. 2022 Page 11 May 9, 2023 Figure 5 - Residential PV Installations to Date As seen in Figure 6, the non-residential installations currently exceed the trend line amount for reaching the CAP target of 33.54 MW of capacity by 2035. Through 2022, 19.82 MW have been installed. 82.956 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 Me g a w a t t s ( M W ) Year May 9, 2023 Item #9 Page 21 of 52 Carlsbad CAP Annual Report Reporting Period 6, Jan. 2022 – Dec. 2022 Page 12 May 9, 2023 Figure 6 – Non-residential PV Installations and CAP Projections and Target B. Electric Vehicles CAP Measure L involves promoting an increase in the proportion of ZEV miles traveled, specifically EVs, of total VMT. One way to promote an increase in EV ownership and use is to increase the number and locations of publicly available EV charging stations. The California Air Resources Board (CARB) administers the Air Quality Improvement Program (AQIP), intended to fund clean vehicle and equipment projects, air quality research, and workforce training. One of the AQIP programs is the Clean Vehicle Rebate Program (CVRP). Administered by the Center for Sustainable Energy (CSE), the CVRP provides rebates for the purchase or lease of clean vehicles. CVRP participation statistics can be used to gauge EV ownership. Figure 7 shows the annual CVRP participation within Carlsbad, expressed through number of rebates, from March 2011 through Nov. 20228. 8 Center for Sustainable Energy (2023). California Air Resources Board Clean Vehicle Rebate Project, Rebate Statistics. Data last updated Dec. 27, 2022. Retrieved Jan. 26, 2023 from https://cleanvehiclerebate.org/en/rebate-statistic 22.3 33.54 19.82 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 Pr e - 2 0 1 0 20 1 0 20 1 1 20 1 2 20 1 3 20 1 4 20 1 5 20 1 6 20 1 7 20 1 8 20 1 9 20 2 0 20 2 1 20 2 2 20 2 3 20 2 4 20 2 5 20 2 6 20 2 7 20 2 8 20 2 9 20 3 0 20 3 1 20 3 2 20 3 3 20 3 4 20 3 5 Me g a w a t t s ( M W ) Year BAU Projected Capacity CAP Target Actual to Date May 9, 2023 Item #9 Page 22 of 52 Carlsbad CAP Annual Report Reporting Period 6, Jan. 2022 – Dec. 2022 Page 13 May 9, 2023 Figure 7 – CVRP Participation in Carlsbad – March 2011 through Nov. 20229 Data for the reporting period is available from Jan. 1, 2022 to Nov. 29, 2022, and CVRP participation is available in Table 4. The city also continues to acquire clean vehicles as part of its fleet conversion strategy; during the reporting period, the city purchased six PHEVs and EVs. Table 4. CVRP participation in Carlsbad - Jan. 1, 2022 to Nov. 29, 2022 Clean Vehicle Type Number of Rebates Battery electric vehicle (BEV) 132 Plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) 12 Fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV) 1 Other 0 C. General Plan Transportation Policies In addition to the CAP Measures and Actions described in Section III of this report, the CAP also relies upon implementation of some transportation-related General Plan policies for GHG reductions. These policies involve bikeway system improvements, pedestrian improvements and increased connectivity, traffic calming, parking facilities and policies, and transportation improvements. While the overall GHG reduction of these General Plan policies is relatively 9 BEV = battery-electric vehicle; PHEV = plug-in hybrid electric vehicle; FCEV = fuel-cell electric vehicle; other = non-highway, motorcycle & commercial BEV. 0 100 200 300 400 500 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 Nu m b e r o f R e b a t e s Year Other FCEV PHEV BEV May 9, 2023 Item #9 Page 23 of 52 I Carlsbad CAP Annual Report Reporting Period 6, Jan. 2022 – Dec. 2022 Page 14 May 9, 2023 small (approximately 7.6% of 2035 reductions), it is important to track progress in completing these improvements because they contribute increased and multimodal mobility within the city. During the reporting period, the City Council approved the design for the Carlsbad Sidewalk Construction Project. This would build new sidewalks at three locations identified as segments with missing or substandard sidewalks in the city’s Sustainable Mobility Plan. This construction is expected to start in spring 2023. The city currently has 189.68 miles of bikeways, as shown in Figure 8. Also, 0.9 additional miles of Class II bikeways were added to the system during the reporting period. May 9, 2023 Item #9 Page 24 of 52 Carlsbad CAP Annual Report Reporting Period 6, Jan. 2022 – Dec. 2022 Page 15 May 9, 2023 Figure 8 – Bikeways by Classification May 9, 2023 Item #9 Page 25 of 52 City of Carlsbad Bikeway Classification 2022 Legend -Class I Bikeway (5 62 Miles) Class II Bikeway (177 10 Miles) -Class Ill Bikeway(696 Miles) --Centerline 05 2M1les (cityof Carlsbad + Carlsbad CAP Annual Report Reporting Period 6, Jan. 2022 – Dec. 2022 Page 16 May 9, 2023 Parking Facilities and Policies On Sept. 26, 2017, the City Council accepted a Parking Management Plan (PMP) for the Carlsbad Village, Barrio and Beach Area, which contains many of the parking policies described in the CAP. Implementation of the plan will occur through the Carlsbad Village and Barrio Master Plan, which was adopted by the City Council on July 24, 2018. The recommendations in the PMP include hiring a parking program manager, incentivizing shared and leased parking, reducing parking requirements, allowing bicycle parking as a replacement for required parking, and installing digital parking locator infrastructure and wayfinding signs. The 2022 Parking Study identified that the parking demand increased from 2021 in some beach and business areas, but that the conclusions and recommendations were the same. Additionally, Assembly Bill 2097 restricts a local governments ability to provide parking standards in most of the Carlsbad Village and Barrio Master Plan area due to its proximity to the Carlsbad Village Coaster station. Transportation Improvements During the reporting period, staff continued to develop the programs and projects identified in the Sustainable Mobility Plan. The Sustainable Mobility Plan consolidates decades of planning and community input to plan the city’s future active transportation networks, improve transportation related safety, reduce GHG emissions and VMT, and shift how residents get around the city away from private automobiles towards modes that are more sustainable. Some of the specific actions completed during the reporting period include: • Development of the City’s first Safe Routes to School plan with Hope Elementary • Establishment of the City’s Multimodal Level of Service (MMLOS) evaluation process to identify key gaps or deficiencies in the city’s multimodal transportation network • Initiated key program recommendations from the Sustainable Mobility Plan, including the active transportation monitoring program, cycling education and safety training • Upgraded crosswalk signals to provide pedestrians with a leading pedestrian intervals (LPIs) at 22 signalized intersections around schools and 10 locations around the Village, which has a higher than average number of collisions • Added green markings to bike lanes at 18 locations in the city, with 37 more approved by City Council • Added or improved lane markings at 22 locations around schools • Redesigned the lane striping on 90 miles of streets throughout Carlsbad to slow traffic and provide more space for bicyclists D. New Development Projects The CAP serves as an environmental review tiering document, or “Qualified CAP,” pursuant to Section 15183.5 of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines. MTCO2e must May 9, 2023 Item #9 Page 26 of 52 Carlsbad CAP Annual Report Reporting Period 6, Jan. 2022 – Dec. 2022 Page 17 May 9, 2023 either demonstrate consistency with the CAP or submit a project specific GHG analysis for review and approval. To evaluate project CAP consistency, the Planning Division uses the CAP Consistency Checklist (Checklist) and accompanying Guidance for Demonstrating Consistency with the CAP – For Discretionary Projects Subject to CEQA (Guidance). The Checklist and Guidance are available at: http://www.carlsbadca.gov/services/building/forms/default.asp. During the reporting period, no projects exceeded the 900 MTCO2e threshold; therefore, no projects were subject to CEQA CAP compliance review. V. GHG Emissions Inventories As part of its Climate program, SANDAG coordinates with local jurisdictions to prepare biennial GHG inventories. These inventories are based upon energy consumption data from SDG&E, VMT modeling data from SANDAG, and other information such as waste disposal and water consumption. These inventories, along with other local GHG reduction activity, are released as a jurisdiction-specific “ReCAP Snapshot.” To date, SANDAG has released 2016, 2018, and 2020 Snapshots, though the 2020 ReCAP Snapshot was incomplete10. All ReCAP Snapshots are available at SANDAG’s Climate Data Portal (https://climatedata.sandag.org/) and on SANDAG’s Climate Action website (https://www.sandag.org/projects-and-programs/environment/climate-action-planning). A 2022 Snapshot is expected in 2024. Figure 9 shows Carlsbad’s 2016 ReCAP Snapshot data; Figure 10 shows the 2018 ReCAP Snapshot data; Figure 11 shows the 2016, 2018, and 2020 Snapshot data. 10 The SANDAG 2020 ReCAP Snapshots state that “on-road transportation has been omitted due to the lack of suitable data for the 2020 year…the Covid-19 pandemic had extreme effects on regional transportation and the [Activity Based Model] had no way of anticipating these effects” and that the observed data available “does not have enough detail to provide accurate VMT estimates for individual jurisdictions within the region”. May 9, 2023 Item #9 Page 27 of 52 Carlsbad CAP Annual Report Reporting Period 6, Jan. 2022 – Dec. 2022 Page 18 May 9, 2023 Figure 9 – 2016 Community GHG Emissions by Sector Figure 10 – 2018 Community GHG Emissions by Sector 51% 29% 14% 4% 2%1%0.3% On-Road Transportation Electricity Natural Gas Solid Waste Off-Road Transportation Energy Policy Initiatives Center, 2019 48% 30% 15% 4%2%1%0.3% On-Road Transportation* Electricity Natural Gas Solid Waste Off-Road Transportation Energy Policy Initiatives Center, 2020 May 9, 2023 Item #9 Page 28 of 52 ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ Carlsbad CAP Annual Report Reporting Period 6, Jan. 2022 – Dec. 2022 Page 19 May 9, 2023 Figure 11 – 2016, 2018, and 2020 Community GHG Emissions by Sector11 As discussed in Section I of this report, the CAP sets goals to reduce GHG emissions by 4% below the 2012 baseline by 2020 (a reduction of approximately 39,080 MTCO2e) and 52% below baseline by 2035 (a reduction of approximately 508,040 MTCO2e). The most recent complete GHG inventory from 2018 (Figure 10) shows the city surpassing its 2020 targets with a 4.8% reduction in GHG emissions (a reduction of approximately 47,000 MTCO2e). This trendline can be seen in Figure 1 in Section I. As CAP implementation continues, progress towards the 2035 target will be assessed in future reporting. VI. CAP Update On Nov. 23, 2021, the city executed a professional services agreement (PSA) with EPIC to prepare a comprehensive update to the CAP; this PSA also includes Ascent Environmental as a sub-consultant. The consultant team and staff are working to evaluate the city’s CAP and prepare an updated document. To date, the consultant team and staff have reviewed existing CAP measures, prepared a public outreach plan, analyzed updated state legislation and policies, 11 Methodologies used to calculate GHG emissions for different emissions sectors change from inventory year to inventory year; therefore, comparisons to other years should be done with that understanding. Specific details about what data sources have changed from inventory to inventory are available in SANDAG’s ReCAP Snapshots. 0 50,000 100,000 150,000 200,000 250,000 300,000 350,000 400,000 450,000 500,000 On-road transportation Electricity Natural gas Solid waste Water Wastewater Off-road transportation GH G E m i s s i o n s ( M T C O 2e) 2016 2018 2020 May 9, 2023 Item #9 Page 29 of 52 111 ---1!!!!!!1. --■ ■ ■ ■ Carlsbad CAP Annual Report Reporting Period 6, Jan. 2022 – Dec. 2022 Page 20 May 9, 2023 met with city staff from multiple departments, conducted and completed Phase I of public outreach12, continued public outreach and engagement, and began development of possible measures to include in the CAP Update. The city also began working with a #CaliforniansForAll College Corps Fellow to support the CAP Update and other sustainability initiatives. The Fellow supported several outreach activities related to the CAP aimed at educating members of the public on sustainable actions taken in their everyday lives and connecting those actions to the CAP. Activities were tailored by audience (e.g., age) and encouraged participants to think about new sustainable behaviors to incorporate into their routines. On April 19, 2022, City Council adopted Resolution No. 2022-094, directing staff to use a customized run of SANDAG’s most recent Activity Based Model tailored for Carlsbad in its update of the CAP. This data would also be utilized for other concurrent city efforts, such as the assumptions and modeling being used in the Housing Element rezone work. Since that date, delivery of the data was delayed numerous times; ultimately, SANDAG released a general memo on September 30, 2022 to all jurisdictions and private entities that had pending modeling projects indicating there was at least a six-to-seven month additional delay. This delay was attributed to the SANDAG Board of Directors direction to remove the road usage charge from the 2021 Regional Plan. To ensure the Housing Element rezone work meets its state deadline, staff utilized contingency funds within the current contract to have the transportation sub-consultant complete the necessary travel demand modeling work. At the time of writing, this data is expected to be delivered in mid-April. As work continues, staff will continue to provide updates to City Council on the status of the CAP update. At this time, it is anticipated that candidate measures will be presented to City Council for discussion later this year. VII. Conclusion During the sixth CAP reporting period, staff continued to make progress in carrying out the CAP measures and Actions. During the next calendar year, staff will continue to work and coordinate with staff, consultants, and other regional and business partners to further CAP implementation and lower GHG emissions. Staff and the consultant team will also continue work on an update to the city’s CAP. 12 The Summary of Phase I Public Engagement for the Climate Action Plan Update is available on the city website: https://www.carlsbadca.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/11102/637976459122330000 May 9, 2023 Item #9 Page 30 of 52 Carlsbad CAP Annual Report Reporting Period 6, Jan. 2022-Dec. 2022 Page i May 9, 2023 Appendix A CAP AR6 Implementation Activities by Measure and Action May 9, 2023 Item #9 Page 31 of 52 a- i CA P M e a s u r e s a n d A c t i o n s 20 3 5 P e r f o r m a n c e G o a l s f o r M e a s u r e s Pr o g r e s s In d i c a t o r s CA P AR 6 Im p l e m e n t a t i o n Ac t i v i t i e s an d S t a t u s Ti m e f r a m e s i n C A P : Sh o r t -te r m = 1 - 2 y e a r s Mi d -te r m = 2 - 5 ye a r s Sh o r t t o L o n g -te r m & M i d -Lo n g -te r m = b e g u n b u t n o t co m p l e t e d i n 5 y e a r s On g o i n g = c o n t i n u e f o r t h e d u r a t i o n o f C A P i m p l e m e n t a t i o n Ty p e s o f d a t a co l l e c t e d t o me a s u r e pr o g r e s s 13 Im p l e m e n t a t i o n s t a t u s: Co m p l e t e In p r o gr e ss , o n s c h e d u l e In p r o gr e ss , d e l a ye d No t s t a r t e d B - Pr o m o t e i n s t a l l a t i o n o f c o m m e r c i a l a n d i n d u s t r i a l p h o t o v o l t a i c s y s t e m s Pr o m o t e i n s t a l l a t i o n o f c o m m e r c i a l a n d i n d u s t r i a l P V s y s t e m s t o p r o d u c e a n a d d i t i o n a l 1 1. 2 4 MW a b o v e p r o j e c t e d a m o u n t s by 2 0 3 5 . B- 1 Im p l e m e n t a n d e n f o r c e T i t l e 1 8 , C h a p t e r 1 8 . 3 0 , Se c t i o n 1 8 . 3 0 . 1 3 0 o f t h e C a r l s b a d M u n i c i p a l C o d e , ma n d a t i n g s o l a r p h o t o v o l t a i c e n e r g y g e n e r a t i o n sy s t e m s o n n e w n o n -re s i d e n t i a l b u i l d i n g s . (O n g o i n g ) MW i n s t a l l e d PV St a f f c o n t i n u e d t o i m p l e m e n t t h e s o l a r P V o r d i n a n c e a d o p t e d b y Ci t y C o u n c i l as Or d i n a n c e N o . C S -34 7 . T h i s o r d i n a n c e re q u i r e s a l l n e w n o n r e s i d e n t i a l b u i l d i n g s t o i n s t a l l so l a r P V s y s t e m s t o o f f s e t a p o r t i o n o f t h e i r e l e c t r i c i t y r e q u i r e m e n t s . In 2 0 2 2 , 3 4 . 9 2 4 MW of P V w a s i n s t a l l e d o n r e s i d e n t i a l b u i l d i n g s ( s e e T a b l e 3). (In p r o g r e s s , o n s c h e d u l e ) B- 2 Im p l e m e n t a n d e n f o r c e T i t l e 1 8 , C h a p t e r 1 8 . 3 0 , Se c t i o n 1 8 . 3 0 . 1 3 0 o f t h e C a r l s b a d M u n i c i p a l C o d e , ma n d a t i n g s o l a r p h o t o v o l t a i c e n e r g y g e n e r a t i o n sy s t e m s o n e x i s ti n g n o n -re s i d e n t i a l b u i l d i n g s un d e r g o i n g m a j o r r e n o v a t i o n s . (O n g o i n g ) MW i n s t a l l e d PV St a f f c o n t i n u e d t o i m p l e m e n t t h e s o l a r P V o r d i n a n c e a d o p t e d b y Ci t y C o u n c i l as Or d i n a n c e N o . C S -34 7 . T h i s o r d i n a n c e re q u i r e s e x i s t i n g n o n r e s i d e n t i a l b u i l d i n g s t h a t un d e r g o m a j o r r e n o v a t i o n s o r a d d i t i o n s t o i n s t a l l s o l a r P V s y s t e m s t o o f f s e t a p o r t i o n o f th e i r e l e c t r i c i t y r e q u i r e m e n t s . In 2 0 2 2 , 3. 0 2 MW o f P V w a s i n s t a l l e d o n n o n -re s i d e n t i a l bu i l d i n g s ( s e e T a b l e 3). (In pr o g r e s s , o n s c h e d u l e ) D - En c o u r a g e s i n g l e -fa m i l y r e s i d e n t i a l e f f i c i e n c y r e t r o f i t s En c o u r a g e s i n g l e -fa m i l y r e t r o f i t s w i t h t h e g o a l o f 5 0 % en e r g y r e d u c t i o n c o m p a r e d t o b a s e l i n e i n 3 0 % of t h e t o t a l s i n g l e -fa m i l y h o m e s c i t y w i d e ( a p p r o x i m a t e l y 1 0 , 0 0 0 s i n g l e - fa m i l y h o m e s o u t o f t o t a l o f 3 5 , 0 0 0 . ) D- 1 Pu b l i c i z e a v a i l a b l e i n c e n t i v e a n d r e b a t e p r o g r a m s , su c h a s S D G & E ' s R e s i d e n t i a l E n e r g y E f f i c i e n c y Pr o g r a m , o n t h e c i t y ' s w e b s i t e a n d b y o t h e r me a n s . (S h o r t -te r m ) Pr o m o t i o n a l ac t i v i t i e s co n d u c t e d St a f f co n t i n u e d t o ma i n t a i n a w e b s i t e wi t h r e b a t e a n d i n c e n t i v e i n f o r m a t i o n a n d ma d e pr e s e n t a t i o n s . (C o m p l e t e ) D- 2 Cr e a t e a c i t y w i d e “ E n e r g y C h a l l e n g e , ” s i m i l a r t o th e De p a r t m e n t o f E n e r g y ' s B e t t e r B u i l d i n g s C h a l l e n g e , t o pr o m o t e c o s t -ef f e c t i v e e n e r g y i m p r o v e m e n t s , w h i l e ha v i n g r e s i d e n t s a n d b u i l d i n g o w n e r s c o m m i t t o re d u c i n g e n e r g y c o n s u m p t i o n . (S h o r t -te r m ) Pr o g r a m l a u n c h Pr o m o t i o n a l ac t i v i t i e s co n d u c t e d In 2 0 2 2 , t h e c i t y l a u n c h e d i t s p i l o t H o m e E n e r g y S c o r e A s s e s s m e n t P r o g r a m , w h i c h o f f e r s re s i d e n t s a f r e e , c u s t o m i z e d a s s e s s m e n t t o m e a s u r e t h e i r h o m e ’ s e n e r g y u s e a n d id e n t i f y w a y s t o c o n s e r v e e n e r g y a n d s a v e m o n e y . D u r i n g t h e r e p o r t i n g p e r i o d , 2 1 as s e s s m e n t s w e r e c o m p l e t e d , c o v e r i n g 4 5 , 9 7 1 s q u a r e f e e t . S t a f f w i l l c o n t i n u e t o im p l e m e n t t h i s p i l o t p r o g r a m a s f u n d i n g i s a v a i l a b l e . (Co m p l e t e ) 13 As s t a t e d i n t h e C A P , “ P r o g r e s s i n d i c a t o r s w i l l b e c o n f i r m e d a s p a r t o f t h e i m p l e m e n t a t i o n o f e a c h m e a s u r e . I f a r e c o m m e n d e d p r o g r e s s i n d i c a t o r i s f o u n d t o b e i n f e a s i b l e t o co l l e c t o r t r a c k , a n a l t e r n a t i v e i n d i c a t o r w i l l b e i d e n t i f i e d . ” Si n c e C A P A m e n d m e n t N o . 1 w a s a d o p t e d , n o a l t e r n a t i v e i n d i c a t o r s h a v e b e e n i d e n t i f i e d . May 9, 2023 Item #9 Page 32 of 52 a- ii Nu m b e r of pr o g r a m pa r t i c i p a n t s an d / o r s q . fo o t a g e o f bu i l d i n g s i n pr o g r a m D- 3 Im p l e m e n t a n d e n f o r c e T i t l e 1 8 , C h a p t e r 1 8 . 3 0 , Se c t i o n 1 8 . 3 0 . 3 0 , m a n d a t i n g e n e r g y e f f i c i e n c y me a s u r e s i n e x i s t i n g r e s i d e n t i a l b u i l d i n g s u n d e r g o i n g ma j o r r e n o v a t i o n s . (O n g o i n g ) Nu m b e r a n d / o r sq . f o o t a g e o f ex i s t i n g h o m e s re t r o f i t t e d St a f f c o n t i n u e d t o i m p l e m e n t t h e e n e r g y e f f i c i e n c y o r d i n a n c e a d o p t e d b y Ci t y C o u n c i l as Or d i n a n c e N o . C S -34 7 . T h i s o r d i n a n c e re q u i r e s s p e c i f i e d e n e r g y e f f i c i e n c y m e a s u r e s i n a l l ma j o r r e s i d e n t i a l r e n o v a t i o n s . In 2 0 2 2 , 4 0 r e s i d e n t i a l b u i l d i n g pe r m i t s i s s u e d fo r ma j o r re n o v a t i o n s h a d e n e r g y e f f i c i e n c y m e a s u r e s i n c l u d e d a s a p a r t o f t h e r e n o v a t i o n . (I n pr o g r e s s , o n s c h e d u l e ) E - En c o u r a g e m u l t i -fa m i l y r e s i d e n t i a l e f f i c i e n c y r e t r o f i t s En c o u r a g e m u l t i -fa m i l y r e t r o f i t s w i t h t h e g o a l o f 5 0 % en e r g y r e d u c t i o n c o m p a r e d t o b a s e l i n e i n 3 0 % of t h e t o t a l m u l t i -fa m i l y h o m e s c i t y w i d e ( a p p r o x i m a t e l y 5 , 0 0 0 s i n g l e - fa m i l y h o m e s o u t o f t o t a l o f 1 7 , 0 0 0 . ) E- 1 Se e D -1 a b o v e Se e D -1 a b o v e Se e D -1 a b o v e E- 2 Se e D -3 ab o v e Se e D -3 a b o v e Se e D -3 ab o v e E- 3 Se e D -3 a b o v e Se e D -3 a b o v e Se e D -3 a b o v e F - En c o u r a g e c o m m e r c i a l a n d c i t y f a c i l i t y e f f i c i e n c y r e t r o f i t s En c o u r a g e c o m m e r c i a l a n d c i t y f a c i l i t y e f f i c i e n c y r e t r o f i t s w i t h t h e g o a l e q u i v a l e n t t o a 4 0 % en e r g y r e d u c t i o n i n 3 0 % of c o m m e r c i a l s q u a r e f o o t a g e c i t y w i d e a n d i n c i t y -ow n e d bu i l d i n g s b y 2 0 3 5 . F- 1 Un d e r t a k e a p r o g r a m o f e n e r g y e f f i c i e n c y r e t r o f i t s f o r ci t y -ow n e d b u i l d i n g s , w i t h t h e g o a l o f 4 0 % re d u c t i o n in e n e r g y u s e , b e g i n n i n g w i t h r e t r o f i t s t h a t w o u l d re s u l t i n m o s t s ub s t a n t i a l e n e r g y s a v i n g s . (S h o r t -te r m ) Sq . f o o t a g e o f bu i l d i n g s re t r o f i t t e d % e n e r g y u s e re d u c t i o n In 2 0 2 2 , c i t y f a c i l i t y e n e r g y u s a g e w a s 4 2 % l o w e r t h a n t h e 2 0 1 1 b a s e l i n e . A l s o i n 2 0 2 2 , co n s t r u c t i o n o f F i r e S t a t i o n 2 w a s c o m p l e t e d ; 1 5 . 9 6 7 k W o f s o l a r w a s i n s t a l l e d , a l o n g wi t h a s o l a r w a t e r h e a t i n g s y s t e m a n d t w o E V c h a r g e r s . St a f f c o n t i n u e d t o r e p l a c e He a t i n g , V e n t i l a t i o n a n d C o o l i n g ( H V A C ) e q u i p m e n t a n d l i g h t i n g w i t h h i g h e r e f f i c i e n c y un i t s a n d b u l b s / f i x t u r e s ( Co m p l e t e ) F- 2 Pr o m o t e a v a i l a b l e i n c e n t i v e a n d r e b a t e p r o g r a m s , su c h a s S D G & E ' s E n e r g y E f f i c i e n c y B u s i n e s s R e b a t e s an d I n c e n t i v e s P r o g r a m , o n t h e c i t y ' s w e b s i t e a n d b y ot h e r m e a n s . (S h o r t -te r m ) Pr o m o t i o n a l ac t i v i t i e s co n d u c t e d Nu m b e r o f pr o g r a m St a f f c o n t i n u e d t o ma i n t a i n a w e b s i t e wi t h i n f o r m a t i o n o n r e b a t e s a n d i n c e n t i v e s . (C o m p l e t e ) May 9, 2023 Item #9 Page 33 of 52 a- ii i pa r t i c i p a n t s an d / o r s q . foo t a g e o f bu i l d i n g s re t r o f i t t e d % e n e r g y u s e re d u c t i o n F- 3 Im p l e m e n t a n d e n f o r c e T i t l e 1 8 , C h a p t e r 1 8 . 2 1 , Se c t i o n 1 8 . 2 1 . 1 5 5 , m a n d a t i n g e n e r g y e f f i c i e n c y me a s u r e s i n n e w n o n -re s i d e n t i a l b u i l d i n g s a n d ex i s t i n g n o n -re s i d e n t i a l b u i l d i n g s u n d e r g o i n g m a j o r re n o v a t i o n s . (O n g o i n g ) % e n e r g y u s e re d u c t i o n St a f f c o n t i n u e d t o i m p l e m e n t t h e e n e r g y e f f i c i e n c y o r d i n a n c e a d o p t e d b y Ci t y C o u n c i l as Or d i n a n c e N o . C S -34 7 . T h i s o r d i n a n c e re q u i r e s s p e c i f i e d e n e r g y e f f i c i e n c y m e a s u r e s i n a l l ne w a n d c e r t a i n e x i s t i n g n o n r e s i d e n t i a l b u i l d i n g s u n d e r g o i n g m a j o r r e n o v a t i o n s . In 2 0 2 2 , 68 c o m m e r c i a l b u i l d i n g pe r m i t s i s s u e d fo r m a j o r r e n o v a t i o n s h a d e n e r g y e f f i c i e n c y me a s u r e s i n c l u d e d a s p a r t o f t h e r e n o v a t i o n s . (I n p r o g r e s s , o n s c h e d u l e ) I - Pr o m o t e r e p l a c e m e n t o f i n c a n d e s c e n t a n d h a l o g e n b u l b s w i t h L E D o r o t h e r e n e r g y ef f i c i e n t l a m p s Re p l a c e 5 0 % of i n c a n d e s c e n t a n d h a l o g e n l i g h t b u l b s c i t y w i d e w i t h L E D o r s i m i l a r l y e f f i c i e n t l i g h t i n g b y 2 0 3 5 . I- 1 Re p l a c e 5 0 % of i n c a n d e s c e n t o r h a l o g e n l i g h t b u l b s i n ci t y f a c i l i t i e s w i t h L E D o r s i m i l a r l y e f f i c i e n t l i g h t i n g , o r fo l l o w S A N D A G E n e r g y R o a d m a p r e c o m m e n d a t i o n s fo r l i g h t i n g i n c i t y f a c i l i t i e s , w h i c h e v e r r e s u l t s i n gr e a t e r e n e r g y s a v i n g s . (S h o r t -te r m ) Bu i l d i n g s q . fo o t a g e up g r a d e d Nu m b e r o f fi x t u r e s re p l a c e d St a f f m e t th e 5 0 % r e p l a c e m e n t g o a l d u r i n g t h e p r e v i o u s r e p o r t i n g p e r i o d. M o v i n g fo r w a r d , s t a f f w i l l c o n t i n u e t o r e p l a c e l i g h t i n g a s i d e n t i f i e d i n t h i s C A P m e a s u r e a n d ac t i o n . (C o m p l e t e ) I- 2 Pr o m o t e t h e u s e o f L E D o r o t h e r e n e r g y e f f i c i e n t la m p s b y p u b l i c i z i n g r e b a t e p r o g r a m s a n d i n f o r m a t i o n fr o m S D G & E o n t h e b e n e f i t s o f t h e us e o f L E D o r ot h e r e n e r g y e f f i c i e n t l i g h t i n g o n t h e c i t y ’ s w e b p a g e . (S h o r t -te r m ) Pr o m o t i o n a l ac t i v i t i e s co n d u c t e d St a f f co n t i n u e d t o ma i n t a i n a w e b s i t e wi t h i n f o r m a t i o n a b o u t r e b a t e s a n d i n c e n t i v e s . (C o m p l e t e ) I- 3. i Ev a l u a t e t h e f e a s i b i l i t y o f a d o p t i n g a m i n i m u m n a t u r a l li g h t i n g a n d v e n t i l a t i o n s t a n d a r d , d e v e l o p e d b a s e d o n lo c a l c o n d i t i o n s . (M i d -te r m ) Fe a s i b i l i t y s t u d y co n d u c t e d In 2 0 1 8 , t h e C en t e r f o r Sus t a i n a b l e Ene r g y ( C S E ) pe r f o r m e d a q u a l i t a t i v e f e a s i b i l i t y ev a l u a t i o n f o r n a t u r a l l i g h t i n g a n d v e n t i l a t i o n . C S E d e t e r m i n e d t h a t i t w o u l d b e d i f f i c u l t to p r o v i d e a c o s t -ef f e c t i v e n a t u r a l v e n t i l a t i o n r e q u i r e m e n t t h a t g o e s b e y o n d t h e 2 0 1 9 Bu i l d i n g E n e r g y E f f i c i e n c y S t a n d a r d s . C S E no t e d t h a t n o n r e s i d e n t i a l n a t u r a l l i g h t i n g i s we l l -go v e r n e d i n s t a t e c o d e s , r e d u c i n g t h e n e e d f o r a d d i t i o n a l l o c a l s t a n d a r d s . Da y l i g h t i n g i n r e s i d e n t i a l s p a c e s i s l e s s l i k e l y t o b e c o s t -ef f e c t i v e t h a n i n n o n r e s i d e n t i a l sp a c e s b e c a u s e t h e c o d e a s s u m e s o c c u p an t s a r e n o t t y p i c a l l y p r e s e n t i n r e s i d e n t i a l sp a c e s d u r i n g t h e d a y t o t a k e a d v a n t a g e o f d a y l i g h t i n g ; t h e r e f o r e , t h e c o s t o f t h e s e May 9, 2023 Item #9 Page 34 of 52 a- iv co n t r o l s m a y n o t b e o f f s e t b y t h e s a v i n g s . T h e f e a s i b i l i t y a s s e s s m e n t a l s o c o n c l u d e d t h a t th e r e a r e n o k n o w n r e a c h c o d e s t h a t in c l u d e n a t u r a l l i g h t i n g a n d / o r n a t u r a l v e n t i l a t i o n re q u i r e m e n t s t h a t g o b e y o n d c u r r e n t c o d e r e q u i r e m e n t s . (C o m p l e t e ) I- 3. i i De m o n s t r a t e n a t u r a l l i g h t i n g a n d v e n t i l a t i o n f e a t u r e s in f u t u r e f a c i l i t y u p g r a d e o r n e w c o n s t r u c t i o n . (M i d - te r m ) Nu m b e r o f bu i l d i n g s w i t h na t u r a l l i g h t i n g an d v e n t i l a t i o n fe a t u r e s % e n e r g y u s e re d u c t i o n St a f f i s in c o r p o r a t i n g na t u r a l l i g h t i n g a n d ve n t i l a t i o n in t h e f u t u r e O r i o n C e n t e r . (I n pr o g r e s s , o n s c h e d u l e ) J - Ne w c o n s t r u c t i o n r e s i d e n t i a l a n d c o m m e r c i a l s o l a r w a t e r h e a t e r / h e a t p u m p i n s t a l l a t i o n & r e t r o f i t o f e x i s t i n g r e s i d e n t i a l In s t a l l s o l a r w a t e r h e a t e r s o r h e a t p u m p s o n a l l n e w re s i d e n t i a l a n d c o m m e r c i a l c o n s t r u c t i o n . R e t r o f i t u p t o 3 0 % of e x i s t i n g h o m e s a n d c o m m e r c i a l b u i l d i n g s t o i n c l u d e s o l a r wa t e r h e a t e r s o r h e a t p u m p s . J- 1 Pr o m o t e t h e i n s t a l l a t i o n o f r e s i d e n t i a l s o l a r w a t e r he a t e r s a n d h e a t p u m p s b y p u b l i c i z i n g i n c e n t i v e , reb a t e a n d f i n a n c i n g p r o g r a m s , s u c h a s P A C E pr o g r a m s a n d t h e C a l i f o r n i a S o l a r I n i t i a t i v e f o r re n o v a t i o n s o f e x i s t i n g b u i l d i n g s b y p o s t i n g t h i s in f o r m a t i o n o n t h e c i t y ' s w e b s i t e a n d b y o t h e r m e a n s . (S h o r t -te r m ) Pr o m o t i o n a l ac t i v i t i e s co n d u c t e d So l a r he a t e r / h e a t pu m p in s t a l l a t i o n s St a f f co n t i n u e d t o ma i n t a i n a w e b s i t e wi t h i n c e n t i v e , r e b a t e a n d f i n a n c i n g p r o g r a m in f o r m a t i o n . (C o m p l e t e ) J- 2 Im p l e m e n t a n d e n f o r c e T i t l e 1 8 , C h a p t e r 1 8 . 3 0 , Se c t i o n s 1 8 . 3 0 . 1 5 0 a n d 1 8 . 3 0 . 1 7 0 , m a n d a t i n g al t e r n a t i v e w a t e r h e a t i n g r e q u i r e m e n t s i n n e w re s i d e n t i a l a n d n o n -re s i d e n t i a l b u i l d i n g s . (O n g o i n g ) So l a r he a t e r / h e a t pu m p in s t a l l a t i o n s MW i n s t a l l e d PV St a f f c o n t i n u e d t o i m p l e m e n t t h e w a t e r h e a t i n g o r d i n a n c e a d o p t e d b y Ci t y C o u n c i l as Or d i n a n c e N o . C S -34 7 . T h i s or d i n a n c e re q u i r e s n e w r e s i d e n t i a l a n d n o n r e s i d e n t i a l bu i l d i n g s t o i n s t a l l s o l a r t h e r m a l w a t e r h e a t i n g o r e l e c t r i c h e a t p u m p w a t e r h e a t e r s f o r wa t e r h e a t i n g n e e d s . In 2 0 2 2 , 5 p e r m i t s w e r e i s s u e d t h a t r e s u l t e d i n t h e i n s t a l l a t i o n o f al t e r n a t i v e w a t e r h e a t e r s i n n e w c o n s t r u c t i o n p r o j e c t s ( 4 r e s i d e n t i a l , 1 n o n -re s i d e n t i a l ) . (I n p r o g r e s s , o n s c h e d u l e ) K - Pr o m o t e t r a n s p o r t a t i o n d e m a n d m a n a g e m e n t s t r a t e g i e s Pr o m o t e T r a n s p o r t a t i o n D e m a n d M a n a g e m e n t S t r a t e g i e s w i t h a g o a l o f a c h i e v i n g a 1 0 % in c r e a s e i n a l t e r n a t i v e m o d e u s e b y w o r k e r s i n C a r l s b a d , f o r a t o t a l o f 3 2 % al t e r n a t i v e mo d e u s e . May 9, 2023 Item #9 Page 35 of 52 a- v K- 1 Im p l e m e n t t h e c i t y w i d e t r a n s p o r t a t i o n d e m a n d ma n a g e m e n t ( T D M ) p l a n a n d s t r a t e g i e s . (O n g o i n g ) TD M p l a n ad o p t e d TD M pa r t i c i p a t i o n ra t e s % V M T re d u c e d In 20 2 2 , th e Ca r l s b a d Co m m u t e r pr o g r a m (p r o g r a m ) co o r d i n a t e d TD M ef f o r t s wi t h 35 em p l o y e r s an d pr o p e r t y ma n a g e r s in th e ci t y . Th e pr o g r a m co n t i n u e d to de l i v e r re l e v a n t TD M st r a t e g i e s , co n t e n t de v e l o p m e n t , an d ta c t i c s th a t ma t c h e d ch a n g i n g pa n d e m i c im p a c t s to th e tr a n s p o r t a t i o n sy s t e m an d da i l y co m m u t e . In 20 2 2 , th e pr o g r a m be g a n to of f e r an d de l i v e r ou t r e a c h ev e n t s on s i t e at in t e r e s t e d Ca r l s b a d wo r k p l a c e s wh i l e le v e r a g i n g al l re l e v a n t CO V I D -19 sa f e t y pr o t o c o l s . Th e pr o g r a m pr o m o t e d lo c a l an d re g i o n a l tr a n s p or t a t i o n ca m p a i g n s in c l u d i n g Bi k e to Wo r k Da y an d Sa f e r St r e e t s To g e t h e r by de v e l o p i n g an d di s t r i b u t i o n pr o m o t i o n a l ma t e r i a l s an d ho s t i n g ou t r e a c h ev e n t s . Th e pr o g r a m en g a g e d di r e c t l y wi t h an es t i m a t e d 50 0 co m m u t e r s at in -pe r s o n ou t r e a c h ev e n t s . Th e pr o g r a m ma i n t a i n e d pa r t n e r s h i p s wi t h re g i o n a l tr a n s p o r t a t i o n ag e n c i e s an d se r v i c e pr o v i d e r s to mo n i t o r an d re l a y on g o i n g se r v i c e ch a n g e s du e to na t i o n a l , st a t e , an d lo c a l pr o t o c o l s th a t af f e c t e d tr a n s i t an d ot h e r mo d a l av a i l a b i l i t y . Th e Ca r l s b a d Co m m u t e r on l i n e tr i p pl a n n e r la u n c h e d an in n o v a t i v e fu n c t i o n to in f o r m co m m u t e r s in t e r e s t e d in tr a n s i t ab o u t a No r t h Co a s t Tr a n s i t Di s t r i c t fi r s t / l a s t mi l e pi l o t se r v i c e fr o m th e Po i n s e t t i a St a t i o n to wo r k s i t e s in Ca r l s b a d . Th e pr o g r a m ma i n t a i n e d an d pr o m o t e d a co m p r e h e n s iv e sy s t e m of di g i t a l re s o u r c e s to he l p em p l o y e r s im p l e m e n t ca r p o o l pr o g r a m s , ac t i v e tr a n s p o r t a t i o n pr o g r a m m i n g , an d hy b r i d wo r k . Th e pr o g r a m pr o m o t e d th e i r on g o i n g ca m p a i g n , Ba l a n c e d Wo r k , wh i c h pr o v i d e s em p l o y e r s , ma n a g e r s , an d bu s i n e s s lea d e r s wi th le a d in g re s o u r c e s to im p l e m e n t a hy b r i d wo r k f o r c e . In 20 2 2 , th e Ca r l s b a d Co m m u t e r we b s i t e re c e i v e d 1, 6 3 7 un i q u e vi s i t o r s to th e di g i t a l ec o s y s t e m . By th e en d of 20 2 2 , ov e r 1, 0 0 0 co m m u t e r s ha d op t e d in t o th e Ca r l s b a d Co m m u t e r pr o g r a m . Th e pr o g r a m co n t i n u e d in a ss i s t i n g in th e de v e l o p m e n t an d pr o m o t i o n of e - bi k e tr a i n i n g an d sa f e t y st a n d a r d s , lo c a l bi k e to u r s , an d re g i o n a l bi k e sa f e t y tr a i n i n g . (I n pr o g r e s s , on sc h e d u l e ) K- 2 Im p l e m e n t a n d e n f o r c e T i t l e 1 8 , C h a p t e r 1 8 . 5 1 , ma n d a t i n g T D M i m p r o v e m e n t s a n d s t r a t e g i e s fo r no n -re s i d e n t i a l d e v e l o p m e n t . (O n g o i n g ) TD M pa r t i c i p a t i o n ra t e s % VM T re d u c e d Th e TD M or d i n a n c e ef f o r t s fo r 20 2 2 in c l u d e th e de v e l o p m e n t of up d a t e s to th e TD M ha n d b o o k , th e ap p r o v a l of 13 ad d i t i o n a l TD M pl a n s an d 17 ba s e l i n e su r v e y s . Ni n e of th e 17 wo r k s i t e s ex c e e d e d th e i r 20 2 0 -20 2 5 Su s t a i n a b l e M o d e Sh a r e go a l s . Th r e e pr o p e r t i e s co n d u c t e d fo l l o w -up su r v e y s in fa l l 20 2 2 wi t h al l th r e e ex c e e d i n g th e i r mo d e sh a r e go a l . Th e av e r a g e su s t a i n a b l e mo d e sh a r e wa s 37 % co m p a r e d to th e av e r a g e ba s e l i n e mo d e sha r e of 12 % . Th e th r e e pr o p e r t i e s co m b i n e d re d u c e 5, 6 7 8 VM T pe r da y , an es t i m a t e d GH G re d u c t i o n of 2. 3 M T CO 2e. (I n pr o g r e s s , on sc h e d u l e ) L - Pr o m o t e a n i n c r e a s e i n t h e a m o u n t o f z e r o -em i s s i o n s v e h i c l e t r a v e l Pr o m o t e a n i n c r e a s e i n t h e a m o u n t o f Z E V m i l e s t r a v e l e d f r o m a p r o j e c t e d 4. 5 % to 2 5 % of t o t a l V M T b y 2 0 3 5 . May 9, 2023 Item #9 Page 36 of 52 a- vi L- 1 Wo r k i n g w i t h i n d u s t r y p a r t n e r s , c o n s t r u c t a “ P V t o EV ” p i l o t p r o j e c t t o i n s t a l l a P V c h a r g i n g s t a t i o n a t a ci t y f a c i l i t y ( s u c h a s F a r a d a y C e n t e r ) t o c h a r g e c i t y ZE V s . T h e p u r p o s e o f t h e p i l o t p r o j e c t w o u l d b e t o ev a l u a t e t h e f e a s i b i l i t y o f i n c o r p o r a t i n g m o r e Z E V i n t o th e c i t y ' s f l e e t . (S h o r t -te r m ) kW i n s t a l l e d P V Nu m b e r o f Z E V ch a r g i n g u n i t s St a f f co n t i n u e s t o a s s e s s t h e fe a s i b i l i t y o f a d i r e c t "P V t o E V " p i l o t p r o j e c t ( s ) . (I n p r o g r e s s , de l a y e d ) L- 2 Pr e p a r e a c o m m u n i t y -wi d e c h a r g i n g s t a t i o n s i t i n g pl a n , w h i c h e v a l u a t e s s i t e v i s i b i l i t y a n d e x p o s u r e , E V dr i v i n g r a n g e s , h i g h v o l u m e d e s t i n a t i o n s , l o c a t i o n s wi t h h i g h o w n e r s h i p o r i n t e r e s t i n E V s , a n d c o s t o f co n s t r u c t i o n . (S h o r t -te r m ) Si t i n g P l a n pr e p a r e d St a f f c o n t i n u e s t o u t i l i z e t h e c o m p l e t e d E V c h a r g i n g s t a t i o n s i t e a n a l y s i s t o s e l e c t lo c a t i o n s f o r f u t u r e c h a r g i n g s t a t i o n s . (C o m p l e t e ) L- 3 Co n s t r u c t Z E V c h a r g i n g s t a t i o n s b a s e d o n t h e co m m u n i t y -wi d e c h a r g i n g s t a t i o n s i t i n g p l a n de s c r i b e d i n L -2 a b o v e . T h e Z E V c h a r g i n g s t a t i o n s w i l l be f u n d e d b y g r a n t f u n d s w h e n a v a i l a b l e , a n d t h e c i t y wi l l p o s t s i g n a g e d i r e c t i n g Z E V s t o c h a r g i n g s t a t i o n s . (M i d- te r m ) Nu m b e r o f ch a r g i n g st a t i o n s in s t a l l e d kW h c h a r g i n g se s s i o n s Du r i n g t h e r e p o r t i n g p e r i o d , s t a f f c o n t i n u e d t o e v a l u a t e f u n d i n g o p p o r t u n i t i e s t o co n s t r u c t E V c h a r g i n g s t a t i o n s . Tw o E V c h a r g i n g s t a t i o n s w e r e b u i l t a t t h e n e w F i r e St a t i o n 2 , a s w e l l a s t w o E V c h a r g i n g s t a t i o n s a s p a r t o f t h e P o i n s e t t i a C o m m u n i t y P a r k Ph a s e I V P r o j e c t . Af t e r t h e r e p o r t i n g p e r i o d b u t p r i o r t o t h e p u b l i s h i n g o f t h i s r e p o r t , SD G & E b e g a n c o n s t r u c t i o n o f t h e C i t y C o u n c i l a p p r o v e d F l e e t D C F a s t C h a r g i n g s t a t i o n s , ut i l i z i n g P ow e r Y o u r D r i v e f u n d s . (I n p r o g r e s s , o n s c h e d u l e ) L- 4 Of f e r d e d i c a t e d Z E V p a r k i n g , a n d pr o v i d e c h a r g i n g st a t i o n s a d j a c e n t t o Z E V p a r k i n g a s i d e n t i f i e d i n t h e co m m u n i t y -wi d e c h a r g i n g s t a t i o n s i t i n g p l a n . (M i d - te r m ) Nu m b e r o f in s t a l l e d Z E V pa r k i n g sp a c e s / c h a r g i n g st a t i o n s kW h c h a r g i n g se s s i o n s An E V c h a r g i n g i n f r a s t r u c t u r e o r d i n a n c e w a s a d o p te d b y Ci t y C o u n c i l a s Or d i n a n c e N o . CS -34 9 , w h i c h r e q u i r e s n e w r e s i d e n t i a l a n d n o n r e s i d e n t i a l b u i l d i n g s , a n d m a j o r re n o v a t i o n s t o e x i s t i n g r e s i d e n t i a l b u i l d i n g s , to i n s t a l l E V c h a r g i n g i n f r a s t r u c t u r e . St a f f co n t i n u e d t o i m p l e m e n t t h i s o r d i n a n c e d u r i n g t h e re p o r t i n g p e r i o d . Tw o E V c h a r g i n g s t a t i o n s w e r e b u i l t a t t h e n e w F i r e S t a t i o n 2 , a s w e l l a s t w o E V c h a r g i n g st a t i o n s a s p a r t o f t h e P o i n s e t t i a C o m m u n i t y P a r k P h a s e I V P r o j e c t . In 2 0 2 2 , p e r m i t s i s s u e d f o r r e s i d e n t i a l b u i l d i n g s y i e l d e d 7 7 E V c h a r g e r s ( e i t h e r c h a r g i n g st a t i o n s , “ E V r e a d y ” , o r “ E V c a p a b l e ” w i r i n g ) , a n d p e r m i t s i s s u e d f o r n o n r e s i d e n t i a l bu i l d i n g s y i e l d e d 2 0 E V c h a r g e r s . (I n p r o g r e s s , o n s c h e d u l e ) L- 5 Ad o p t r e q u i r e m e n t s f o r Z E V p a r k i n g f o r n e w de v e l o p m e n t s . (S h o r t -te r m ) Nu m b e r o f in s t a l l e d Z E V pa r k i n g sp a c e s / c h a r g i n g st a t i o n s kW h c h a r g i n g se s s i o n s On M a r c h 1 2 , 2 0 1 9 , a n E V c h a r g i n g i n f r a s t r u c t u r e o r d i n a n c e w a s a d o p t e d b y C i t y C o u n c i l as Or d i n a n c e N o . C S -34 9 , w h i c h r e q u i r e s n e w r e s i d e n t i a l a n d n o n r e s i d e n t i a l b u i l d i n g s t o in s t a l l E V c h a r g i n g i n f r a s t r u c t u r e . In 2 0 2 2 , p e r m i t s i s s u e d f o r r e s i d e n t i a l b u i l d i n g s yi e l d e d 7 7 E V c h a r g e r s ( e i t h e r c h a r g i n g s t a t i o n s , “ E V r e a d y ” , o r “ E V c a p a b l e ” w i r i n g ) , a n d pe r m i t s i ss u e d f o r n o n r e s i d e n t i a l b u i l d i n g s y i e l d e d 2 0 E V c h a r g e r s . (C o m p l e t e ) May 9, 2023 Item #9 Page 37 of 52 a- vi i L- 6 Im p l e m e n t a n d e n f o r c e T i t l e 1 8 , C h a p t e r 1 8 . 2 1 , Se c t i o n s 1 8 . 2 1 . 1 4 0 a n d 1 8 . 2 1 . 1 5 0 , m a n d a t i n g e l e c t r i c ve h i c l e c h a r g i n g i n f r a s t r u c t u r e i n n e w r e s i d e n t i a l a n d no n -re s i d e n t i a l b u i l d i n g a n d e x i s t i n g r e s i d e n t i a l a n d no n -re s i d e n t i a l b u i l d i n g s u n d e r g o i n g m a j o r re n o va t i o n s . (O n g o i n g ) Nu m b e r o f E V ch a r g e r s in s t a l l e d St a f f c o n t i n u e d t o i m p l e m e n t t h e E V c h a r g i n g i n f r a s t r u c t u r e o r d i n a n c e a d o p t e d b y Ci t y Co u n c i l a s Or d i n a n c e N o . C S -34 9 , w h i c h r e q u i r e s n e w r e s i d e n t i a l a n d n o n r e s i d e n t i a l bu i l d i n g s , a n d m a j o r r e n o v a t i o n s t o ex i s t i n g r e s i d e n t i a l b u i l d i n g s , to i n s t a l l E V c h a r g i n g in f r a s t r u c t u r e . Tw o E V c h a r g i n g s t a t i o n s w e r e b u i l t a t t h e n e w F i r e S t a t i o n 2 as w e l l a s t w o E V c h a r g i n g st a t i o n s a s p a r t o f t h e P o i n s e t t i a C o m m u n i t y P a r k P h a s e I V P r o j e c t . In 2 0 2 2 , p e r m i t s i s s u e d f o r r e s i d e n t i a l b u i l d i n g s y i e l d e d 7 7 E V c h a r g e r s ( e i t h e r c h a r g i n g st a t i o n s , “ E V r e a d y ” , o r “ E V c a p a b l e ” w i r i n g ) , a n d p e r m i t s i s s u e d f o r n o n r e s i d e n t i a l bu i l d i n g s y i e l d e d 2 0 E V c h a r g e r s . (I n p r o g r e s s , o n s c h e d u l e ) L- 7 Up d a t e t h e c i t y ' s F l e e t Ma n a g e m e n t P r o g r a m t o in c l u d e a l o w a n d z e r o -em i s s i o n s v e h i c l e re p l a c e m e n t / p u r c h a s i n g p o l i c y . I n c r e a s e t h e pr o p o r t i o n o f c i t y f l e e t l o w a n d z e r o –em i s s i o n s V M T to 2 5 % of a l l c i t y -re l a t e d V M T b y 2 0 3 5 . (S h o r t -te r m ) % L E V a n d Z E V fl e e t V M T Th e 2 5 % l o w a n d z e r o -em i s s i o n c i t y -re l a t e d V M T g o a l f o r t h i s m e a s u r e ( i n c l u d i n g p a t r o l ve h i c l e s ) h a s b e e n s u r p a s s e d . St a f f co n t i n u e d t o i m p l e m e n t t h e f l e e t c o n v e r s i o n p l a n . On Oc t . 1 3 , 2 0 2 1 , A d m i n i s t r a t i v e O r d e r # 3 ( F l e e t M a n a g e m e n t P r o g r a m ) w a s u p d a t e d t o in c l u d e a v e h i c l e a cq u i s i t i o n p o l i c y t o r e q u i r e t h e p u r c h a s e o f l o w a n d z e r o -em i s s i o n ve h i c l e s w h e r e f e a s i b l e . Ci t y o f C a r l s b a d ’ s 5 -Ye a r S t r a t e g i c P l a n i n c l u d e s a 1 0 0 % E V p u r c h a s e r e q u i r e m e n t f o r a l l pa s s e n g e r v e h i c l e s b e g i n n i n g i n F Y 2 3 / 2 4 . Si n c e A p r i l 2 0 2 0 , a t o t a l o f 4 0 h y b r i d p a t r o l v e h i c l e s h a v e n o w t r a v e l e d a c o m b i n e d t o t a l of 1 . 4 m i l l i o n m i l e s , r e s u l t i n g i n l i f e t i m e s a v i n g s o f 6 5 , 0 0 0 g a l l o n s o f f u e l w h e n c o m p a r e d to t h e 2 0 1 9 n o n -hy b r i d c o u n t e r p a r t p a t r o l v e h i c l e s . T h e s e f u e l s a v i n g s r e s u l t e d i n a re d u c t i o n o f 1 , 2 8 0 , 0 0 0 l b s ( o r 5 8 0 M T ) o f C O 2. Du r i n g t h e r e p o r t i n g p e r i o d , a t o t a l o f e i g h t c i t y v e h i c l e s w e r e r e p l a c e d w i t h h y b r i d al t e r n a t i v e s , a n d o n e c o n v e n t i o n a l I C E v e h i c l e w a s r e p l a c e d w i t h a p l u g -in h y b r i d al t e r n a t i v e . (Co m p l e t e ) M - De v e l o p m o r e c i t y w i d e r e n e w a b l e e n e r g y p r o j e c t s Pr o d u c e a n e q u i v a l e n t a m o u n t o f e n e r g y t o p o w e r 2 , 0 0 0 h o m e s ( r o u g h l y e q u i v a l e n t t o a 5% re d u c t i o n ) b y 2 0 3 5 f r o m r e n e w a b l e e n e r g y p r o j e c t s . M- 1 Co n d u c t a f e a s i b i l i t y s t u d y t o e v a l u a t e c i t y w i d e re n e w a b l e e n e r g y p r o j e c t s a n d p r i o r i t i z e a c c o r d i n g l y . (S h o r t -te r m ) Fe a s i b i l i t y s t u d y co n d u c t e d Le v e r a g i n g S A N D A G ’ s E n e r g y E n g i n e e r i n g c o n t r a c t w i t h T R C , a M i c r o g r i d F e a s i b i l i t y S t u d y fo r t h e C a r l s b a d S a f e t y an d S e r v i c e C e n t e r o n O r i o n W a y w a s c o m p l e t e d a n d p r e s e n t e d to C i t y C o u n c i l o n J u n e 1 2 , 2 0 1 8 . I f i m p l e m e n t e d , t h e m i c r o g r i d w o u l d i n c l u d e e n o u g h re n e w a b l e e n e r g y g e n e r a t i o n a n d e n e r g y s t o r a g e t o p o w e r t h e e n t i r e c o m p l e x i n c a s e o f a b l a c k o u t . (C o m p l e t e ) May 9, 2023 Item #9 Page 38 of 52 a- vi i i M- 2 In c o r p o r a t e r e n e w a b l e e n e r g y m e a s u r e s s u c h a s P V sy s t e m i n s t a l l a t i o n o n c i t y b u i l d i n g s a n d p a r k i n g l o t s , or m i c r o t u r b i n e i n s t a l l a t i o n o n c i t y f a c i l i t i e s , w i t h t h e go a l o f p r o d u c i n g a p p r o x i m a t e l y 1 2 , 0 0 0 m e g a w a t t - ho u r s p e r y e a r . (M i d t o L o n g -te r m ) MW i n s ta l l e d re n e w a b l e en e r g y s y s t e m s In a c c o r d a n c e w i t h t h e c i t y ’ s s o l a r P V o r d i n a n c e , f ut u r e c i t y f a c i l i t i e s w i l l b e r e q u i r e d t o in c o r p o r a t e r e n e w a b l e e n e r g y . Th e p o t e n t i a l f o r r e t r o f i t t i n g P V o n e x i s t i n g b u i l d i n g s i s ev a l u a t e d w h e n o t h e r i m p r o v e m e n t s a n d / o r r en o v a t i o n s a r e p l a n n e d . In 2 0 2 2 , a 1 5 . 9 6 7 k W (0 . 0 1 6 M W ) sy s t e m w a s i n s t a l l e d o n t h e n e w F i r e S t a t i o n 2 . ( In pr o g r e s s , o n s c h e d u l e ) M- 3 Pu r s u e a v a i l a b l e f u n d i n g s o u r c e s f o r t h e c o n s t r u c t i o n of r e n e w a b l e e n e r g y p r o j e c t s b y t h e c i t y , s u c h a s En e r g y Ef f i c i e n c y F i n a n c i n g f o r P u b l i c S e c t o r P r o j e c t s an d S G I P . (M i d t o L o n g -te r m ) Nu m b e r o f EE F P o r S G I P - fu n d e d p r o j e c t s Ci t y s t a f f c o n t i n u a l l y m o n i t o r s p o t e n t i a l f un d i n g s o u r c e s t o s u p p o r t C A P i m p l e m e n t a t i o n , in c l u d i n g r e n e w a b l e e n e r g y p r o j e c t s . (I n pr o g r e s s , o n s c h e d u l e ) N - Re d u c e t h e G H G i n t e n s i t y o f w a t e r s u p p l y c o n v e y a n c e , t r e a t m e n t a n d d i s t r i b u t i o n Re d u c e t h e i n t e n s i t y o f G H G e m i s s i o n s f r o m w a t e r u t i l i t i e s ( i n c l u d i n g w a t e r s u p p l y , w a s t e w a t e r , a n d r e c y c l e d w a t e r ) c o n v e y a n c e, t r e a t m e n t a n d d i s t r i b u t i o n b y 8% by 2 0 3 5 . N- 1 Im p r o v e w a t e r u t i l i t i e s ( i n c l u d i n g w a t e r s u p p l y , wa s t e w a t e r , a n d r e c y c l e d w a t e r ) co n v e y a n c e , tr e a t m e n t a n d d i s t r i b u t i o n , a n d o t h e r s y s t e m im p r o v e m e n t s . (M i d t o L o n g -te r m ) Nu m b e r o f wa t e r s y s t e m im p r o v e m e n t pr o j e c t s % e n e r g y u s e re d u c t i o n In c o r p o r a t i n g e n e r g y e f f i c i e n c y i n t o s y s t e m i m p r o v e m e n t s i s s t a n d a r d p r a c t i c e f o r Ca r l s b a d Ut i l i t i e s , w h i c h an a l y z e s e n e r g y u s a g e o f t h e i r p u m p s a n d e n d e a v o r s t o i n c r e a s e en e r g y e f f i c i e n c y o f e q u i p m e n t w h e n e v e r i t i s r e p l a c e d . Ca r l s b a d i s e x p l o r i n g a n u p d a t e to t h e s o f t s t a r t e l e c t r i c a l c o m p o n e n t s o f w a s t e w a t e r p u m p i n g s t a t i o n s t o i n c r e a s e en e r g y e f f i c i e n c y . Th e p o t a b l e w a t e r d i s t r i b u t i o n s y s t e m i s a l m o s t c o m p l e t e l y g r a v i t y -fe d . S p e c i f i c a l l y , CM W D r e c e i v e s t r e a t e d w a t e r f r o m t h e S a n D i e g o C o u n t y W a t e r A u t h o r i t y a t t h e h i g h e s t po i n t i n t h e s y s t e m a n d u s e s g r a v i t y i n s t e a d o f e l e c t r i c p u m p s t o m o v e it d o w n h i l l t o cu s t o m e r s t h r o u g h o u t t h e c i t y . Th e 2 0 1 2 b a s e l i n e i n v e n t o r y f o r t h e C A P h a d G H G e m i s s i o n s f r o m w a t e r a t 1 2 , 0 0 0 M T CO 2 e . T h e c i t y h a s s u r p a s s e d t h e 8 % e m i s s i o n s r e d u c t i o n g o a l f o r M e a s u r e N ( o r a re d u c t i o n o f 9 6 0 M T C O 2e) . T h e 2 0 1 8 G H G i n v e n t o r y h a d e m i s s i o n s f r o m w a t e r a t 1 0 , 0 0 0 MT C O 2e. 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(On g o i n g ) Co n t i n u e d pa r t i c i p a t i o n Th e c i t y c o n t i n u e d p a r t i c i p a t i o n i n C E A , wh i c h l a u n c h e d i n M a y 2 0 2 1 . ( In p r o g r e s s , o n sc h e d u l e ) P- 2 Ex p l o r e t h e p u r c h a s e o f r e n e w a b l e e n e r g y c r e d i t s i f Co m m u n i t y C h o i c e E n e r g y p r o g r a m i s n o t r e a c h i n g 20 3 5 g o a l . CC E pa r t i c i p a t i o n s ra t e s a n d pe r c e n t a g e o f cu s t o m e r s a t 10 0 % re n e w a b l e en e r g y St a f f w i l l m o n i t o r p r o g r a m p a r t i c i p a t i o n a n d i m p l e m e n t t h i s a c t i o n i f n e c e s s a r y . (N o t st a r t e d ) May 9, 2023 Item #9 Page 40 of 52 Exhibit 2 Climate Action Plan, as amended in 2020 (on file in the Office of the City Clerk) May 9, 2023 Item #9 Page 41 of 52 Exhibit 3 Council Memorandum- Status of the Climate Action Plan dated Sept. 15, 2022 (on file in the Office of the City Clerk) May 9, 2023 Item #9 Page 42 of 52 Exhibit 4 May 9, 2023 Item #9 Page 43 of 52 T·'.'.> !he members of the: CllYCOUNCIL DJI C' ~ CA L cc ~ / CM ~c'M __u'ocM {3) _u November 3, 2022 Council Memorandum To: Honorable Mayor Hall and Members of the City Council From: Gary Barberio, Deputy City Manager, Community Services Jeff Murphy, Community Developmenti · ctor Via: Geoff Patnoe, Assistant City Manager · Re: Housing Element Implementation Stat Update (Districts -All) {city of Carlsbad Memo ID# 2022116 This memorandum provides a status on the implementation of the 2021-2029 Housing Element and is an update to the Council Memorandum provided on September 1, 2022 (Attachment A). Background The City Council approved the 2021-2029 Housing Element on April 6, 2021. The Housing Element contains many programs that must be implemented, many of which by the end of 2024. Program 1.1 of the Housing Element requires the city to rezone properties as necessary to accommodate the city's Regional Housing Needs Assessment (RHNA), or the number of homes needed to accommodate forecasted growth through 2029. On February 15, 2022, the City Council directed the study of two alternatives of potential housing sites that, if rezoned or developed as estimated, would fulfill program requirements. While completion of Program 1.1 must occur by April 2024 per state law, staff's intent has been to present the rezoning to the City Council by Spring 2023. While Program 1.1 is considered the most visible and most controversial of the housing programs, there are several other required programs within the city's Housing Element that staff is currently working on or will be initiating within the next 12 to 18 months. Discussion Preparation of a Supplemental Environmental Impact Report (SEIR) is underway to implement Program 1.1. On September 14, 2022, a Notice of Preparation of the SEIR was published. Notification of this was sent to over 5,000 property owners and tenants within 600-feet of the 18 potential housing sites. Additionally, the notice was sent via email, posted on the city's website, and promoted through social media. Two scoping meetings were originally scheduled and were held on September 26 (in person) and September 28 (virtually). Due to a large public interest, a third scoping meeting was held on October 17 and the public comment period was extended to end on October 26. Release of a _graft of the SEIR for public review is planned in 2023. Community Services Branch Community Development Department 1635 Faraday Avenue I Carlsbad, CA 92008 I 442-339-5088 t May 9, 2023 Item #9 Page 44 of 52 Council Memo -Housing Element Implementation Status Update (Districts -All) November 3, 2022 Page 2 Several sections of the SEIR, including air quality, greenhouse gas emissions, noise, and transportation are dependent on travel demand modeling that estimates vehicle miles traveled (VMT). It is standard that these estimates use a regional travel demand model, and the most common practice is to contract with San Diego Association of Governments (SAN DAG) to complete the modeling and provide the appropriate data. The data will also be incorporated into the Climate Action Plan (CAP) Update, a separate but concurrent effort. The model SANDAG would use is known as the Activity Based Model (ABM2+), which supported SANDAG's 2021 Transportation Regional Plan and is planned to be used by other local jurisdictions for similar projects. However, as was anticipated as a potential risk in the September 1, 2022, Council Memorandum, SAN DAG released a general memo on September 30, 2022 (Attachment B), to all jurisdictions and private entities that have pending modeling projects indicating that there is at least a six-to- seven month delay. SAN DAG attributes the delays to the SAN DAG Board of Directors direction to remove the road usage charge from the 2021 Regional Plan. SAN DAG indicated that a custom memo to each jurisdiction explaining the delay would be released by October 12, 2022, but to date no such memo has been sent. Additionally, SAN DAG did not respond to the city's letter regarding the need for timely modeling of our housing sites, which was included as an attachment to the September 1, 2022, Council Memorandum. While it is typical for jurisdictions to use SAN DAG, in recent years the regional transportation model has been made available publicly for consultants to use. Implementation of Program 1.1 has a deadline and must be completed by April 2024. Upon conversations with the city's transportation sub-consultant, costs for the transportation sub-consultant to complete the work would total $68,500, which is an additional $22,410 above the funding that was previously authorized to be paid to SAN DAG for this work. Therefore, to ensure that the state's deadline of April 2024 is met, staff is proposing to utilize contingency funds within the current contract in the amount of $22,410 and updating the contract documents to proceed with having the transportation sub-consultant complete the necessary travel demand modeling work. After this update, the remaining contingency for this project will be $13,832, therefore if other costs arise additional funding may need to be requested. Delaying the Housing Element rezone work until SAN DAG has capacity to perform the required modeling is not a feasible option as the delay will likely cause the city to miss the state mandated April 2024 deadline ---a deadline that would result in serious negative implications if missed. Recent news articles are reporting that more and more developers are using the authority under the state Housing Accountability Act to develop by-right high-density housing in local cities who lack a state certified Housing Element. This state authority, often referred to as the Builder's Remedy, is a housing development streamlining tool that provides developers the option to file an application for a housing development project that is not in conformance with a jurisdiction's zoning or General Plan. In other words, in exchange for providing some affordable units, a developer can ministerially (by-right) build a housing project at any density in any location in the city, irrespective of public input or local laws. While stories involving housing development under the Housing Accountability Act have largely been focused on cities in northern California, it was May 9, 2023 Item #9 Page 45 of 52 Council Memo -Housing Element Implementation Status Update (Districts -All) November 3, 2022 Page 3 recently reported that the City of Del Mar is now subject to processing its' first local Builders Remedy project1. While Carlsbad is one of eight jurisdictions in the county that has a state certified Housing Element,2 the California Department of Housing & Community Development (HCD) is closely monitoring certified cities to make sure they are timely completing those programs and tasks required in their respective Housing Elements. HCD has made it clear that failure to meet specified program deadlines jeopardizes state certification of a jurisdiction's Housing Element. This not only applies to Program 1.1 (rezoning), but the roughly 35 ongoing housing programs and 15 new housing programs that are listed in the city's certified Housing Element. As of the date of this memorandum, the city remains on track to complete the assigned programs and tasks required in the city's Housing Element. In fact, several significant housing deliverables will be presented throughout calendar year 2023 for City Council decision, including Program 1.1. Once those deliverables are completed, staff will shift their focus on developing required programs and initiatives that address Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing,3 a significant local undertaking that has special interest with HCD. Staff brings this to your attention as the work program for the Community Development Department (more specifically, the Advanced Planning Division) for the next two to three years will be predominately made up of housing related initiatives, as well as those projects included in the recently adopted City Council Strategic Plan. Any new initiatives added to the work program may jeopardize the ability to timely complete committed housing programs and strategic planning related projects. Next Steps Release of the draft SEIR was anticipated for early 2023 followed by public hearings to consider approval of site rezonings in spring 2023. It is now reasonable to expect these timeframes will be pushed back from Spring 2023 to Late Summer/Early Fall 2023. Staff will provide an additional update to the City Council when more timeframe certainty is available. Conducting public hearings in 2023 keeps the city on track to complete all actions ahead of the April 2024 state deadline to complete the rezonings. Attachment: A. September 1, 2022: Council Memo -Housing Element Implementation Status B. Letter from SAN DAG on modeling delay 1 Molnar, Philip. "Proposed Del Mar development would bring 259 new apartments to ocean bluff." Union Tribune. October 18, 2022. 2 Other cities with a certified housing element include the city of Encinitas, Imperial Beach, National City, San Diego, San Marcos, Vista, and the County of San Diego) 3 Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AB 686) is a group of programs and actions that remedy fair housing issues such as racially segregated neighborhoods, housing discrimination, the lack of housing choice, and unequal access to housing-related opportunities. May 9, 2023 Item #9 Page 46 of 52 Council Memo -Housing Element Implementation Status Update (Districts -All) November 3, 2022 Page 4 cc: Scott Chadwick, City Manager Cindie McMahon, City Attorney Paz Gomez, Deputy City Manager, Public Works Ron Kemp, Assistant City Attorney Jamie Wood, Environmental Sustainability Director Tom Frank, Transportation Director Sarah Lemons, Senior Program Manager Nathan Schmidt, Transportation Planning and Mobility Manager Katie Hentrich, Climate Action Plan Administrator Jason Geldert, Engineering Manager Eric Lardy, City Planner Scott Donnell, Senior Planner To the members of the: CITY COUNCIL Date '1/1/��CA \/CC✓ CM \/ACM✓ DCM (3).:!,_ Council Memorandum September 1, 2022 To: From: Via: Re: Honorable Mayor Hall and Members of the City Council Gary Barberio, Deputy City Manager, Community Services Jeff Murphy, Community Developmen�ctor Geoff Patnoe, Assistant City Manager Housing Element Implementation Status (Districts - All) {city ofCarlsbad Memo ID #2022095 This memorandum provides a status on the implementation of the 2021-2029 Housing Element, particularly about the environmental review and schedule for rezoning of new housing sites to accommodate the city's Regional Housing Needs Assessment (RHNA). Background The City Council approved the 2021-2029 Housing Element on April 6, 2021. The Housing Element contains many programs that must be implemented throughout the housing cycle, most of which by the end of 2024. Program 1.1 requires the city to rezone properties as necessary to accommodate the city's RHNA, or the number of homes needed to accommodate state forecasted growth through 2029. On February 15, 2022, the City Council directed the study of two alternative maps of potential housing sites that if rezoned or developed as estimated, would fulfill program requirements. While completion of Program 1.1 must occur by April 2024 per state law, staff's intent has been to present the rezoning to the City Council by mid-2023. Discussion A necessary and important part of the process to rezone sites is environmental review. To study potential impacts associated with this effort, preparation of a supplemental environmental impact report (SEIR) to the 2015 General Plan Update EIR is currently underway. This report is required under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), and release of a draft of the report for public review is planned in 2023. Several sections of the SEIR, including air quality, greenhouse gas emissions, noise, and transportation are dependent on travel demand modeling that estimates vehicle miles traveled (VMT). It is standard that these estimates use a regional travel demand model, and the most common practice is to contract with SAN DAG to complete the modeling and provide the appropriate data. The data will also be incorporated into the Climate Action Plan (CAP) Update, a separate but concurrent effort. The model SAN DAG will use is known as the Activity Based Model (ABM2+), which supported SANDAG's 2021 Transportation Regional Plan and is planned to be used by other local jurisdictions for similar projects. Community Services Branch Community Development Department 1635 Faraday Avenue I Carlsbad, CA 92008 I 442-339-5088 t Attachment A May 9, 2023 Item #9 Page 47 of 52 Council Memo - Housing Element Implementation Status (Districts -All) September 1, 2022 Page 2 Due to the land use assumptions SAN DAG used in the Regional Transportation Plan1, ABM2+ must be tailored to individual jurisdictions. Originally, SAN DAG estimated the customizable version would be available in late June. Based on this schedule, SAN DAG indicated it could "run" a Carlsbad-specific model by late July or August, factoring in model run times and similar requests from other jurisdictions. However, SAN DAG did not release the model until July 15 and now estimates a model run specifically for Carlsbad will not occur until this fall. This could be further delayed if SAN DAG proceeds with updating the 2021 Regional Transportation Plan to remove the "Road User Charge" that was included in the projections. The revised timeline from SAN DAG delays by at least a month project processing and release of the city's draft SEIR. Additionally, staff is concerned about the vagueness of the "fall" timeframe and the possibility that more delay that would impact not only the rezoning process, but the CAP update. A delay could also result, for example, if the SAND AG Board directed changes to the 2021 Regional Plan that could be prioritized above agency requests. Next Steps Staff will continue to monitor SANDAG's progress and may consider what, if any, options are available to acquire the necessary modeling data. For example, now that a customizable version of ABM2+ is available, hiring a consultant to run a Carlsbad-specific model instead of SAN DAG is possible. While this may provide more certainty in project scheduling, the feasibility, timing, and expense of this option is not known. Carlsbad could also develop its own travel demand model instead of utilizing SANDAG's; however, the time it would take to do so renders it an unlikely alternative. Additionally, staff recently sent a letter to SAN DAG, provided as Attachment A, outlining Carlsbad's concerns with SANDAG's timing and reiterating the importance of the customization required. The city and its consultant continue work on SEIR content not dependent on the modeling results. Technical studies (e.g., biology) are already underway. Planning for public scoping meetings is occurring as well. The meetings, one virtual and one in-person, which will enable community input on potential environmental impacts, are a necessary step in the preparation of an Environmental Impact Report. Staff is now planning the scoping meetings taking place in September, after Labor Day, in recognition of the delay in project processing. Meetings will be noticed to owners and occupants surrounding all potential housing sites along with notice to the city's Housing Element email list, and staff will prepare a City Council Memorandum to inform of the outreach and meeting dates. Release of the draft SEIR was anticipated for early 2023 followed by public hearings to consider approval of site rezonings in spring 2023. It is now reasonable to expect these timeframes may be pushed at least a month. Staff will provide an additional update to the City Council when 1 The city sent SAN DAG two comment letters on the 2021 Regional Transportation Plan, including remarks on land use. The letters are part of an October 21, 2021, Council Memorandum available at: https://records.carlsbadca.gov/Weblink/DocView.aspx?id=5493674&dbid=0&repo=CityofCarlsbad&searchid=de2d7383-2f4b- 49fc-bdbb-3f5c39a02256. May 9, 2023 Item #9 Page 48 of 52 May 9, 2023 Item #9 Page 49 of 52 Council Memo -Housing Element Implementation Status (Districts -All) September 1, 2022 Page 3 more timeframe certainty is available. The anticipated summer 2023 approval hearings are still ahead of the April 2024 state deadline to complete the rezonings. Attachment: A. August 29, 2022, Letter to SAN DAG cc: Scott Chadwick, City Manager Cindie McMahon, City Attorney Ron Kemp, Assistant City Attorney Jamie Wood, Environmental Sustainability Director Tom Frank, Transportation Director Sarah Lemons, Senior Program Manager Nathan Schmidt, Transportation Planning & Mobility Manager Katie Hentrich, Climate Action Plan Administrator Jason Geldert, Engineering Manager Jennifer Horodyski, Associate Engineer Eric Lardy, City Planner Scott Donnell, Senior Planner May 9, 2023 Item #9 Page 50 of 52 Aug. 29,2022 San Diego Association of Governments Attn.: Ms. Coleen Clementson 401 B Street, Suite 800 San Diego CA, 92101 Via: SDForward@sandag.org Attachment A ( City of Carlsbad RE: CITY OF CARLSBAD HOUSING ELEMENT IMPLEMENTATION AND REGIONAL MODELING REQUESTS Dear Ms. Clementson: The City of Carlsbad appreciates the opportunity to work with the San Diego Association of Governments (SAN DAG) as a member agency and prides itself in being only one of the seven member agencies with a Certified 2021-2029 Housing Element. As part of that housing element, there is commitment to rezone various properties located throughout the city to accommodate our Regional Housing Needs Assessment by 2023. To maintain our schedule, on Feb. 15, 2022, our City Council . directed the study of two maps reflecting potential housing sites that if rezoned, would fulfill our housing element program requirements. A necessary and important part of the process to rezone sites is environmental review and the preparation of a supplemental environmental impact report (SEIR) is currently underway with a scheduled public review period taking place in earlier 2023. Several sections of the SEIR, including air quality, greenhouse gas emissions, noise, and transportation are dependent on travel demand modeling that estimates vehicle miles traveled (VMT). It is standard practice that these estimates use a regional travel demand model, and the most common practice is to contract with SAN DAG to complete the modeling and provide the appropriate data. The data will also be incorporated into the Climate Action Plan (CAP) Update, which the city is also currently updating. City staff and our transportation consultant have had conversations with SAN DAG since December 2021 regarding the availability of the model and was advised that the model would be ready in Summer 2022. Recently, SAN DAG staff have advised us that we are behind multiple other jurisdictions and the earliest we could expect the model is in the Fall of 2022. Carlsbad respectfully requests that SAN DAG support the city's service bureau requests as efficiently as possible. Further delays in completion of the regional travel demand model could adversely impact our rezone schedule and jeopardize our ability to timely meet our Housing Element program requirements, thereby potentially placing our HCD housing element certification at risk. Additionally,· the city requests that future decisions to update the 2021 Regional Transportation Plan respect the fact that Carlsbad and other local jurisdictions have been waiting on the availability of the regional model for local projects for some time and that further delays could result in additional liability, time, and costs for member · agencies. Community Development Department 1635 Faraday Avenue I Carlsbad, CA 92008-7314 I 442-339-5088 t May 9, 2023 Item #9 Page 51 of 52 Ms. Clementson Aug.29,2022 Page 2 If you have any questions or need additional information, please contact Eric Lardy, City Planner, at eric.la rdy@carlsbadca.gov. JM:EL:mh cc: Gary Barberio, Deputy City Manager, Community Services Tom Frank, Transportation Director Jamie Wood, Environmental Sustainability Director Ron Kemp, Assistant City Attorney Eric Lardy, City Planner Scott Donnell, Senior Planner Jason Geldert, Engineering Manager Nathan Schmidt, Transportation Planning and Mobility Manager May 9, 2023 Item #9 Page 52 of 52 Attachment B Date: September 30, 2022 Memo to: Service Bureau Clients and Member Agency Staffs From: Dr. Cindy Burke, Senior Director Data Science Subject: Delays in Service Bureau Projects that Require Transportation Modeling On Friday, September 23, 2022, the SAN DAG Board of Directors directed SAN DAG to prepare a focused amendment to the 2021 Regional Plan with a supplemental CEQA analysis that would remove the road usage charge (RUC) from the 2021 Regional Plan. The amendment is a 12-month process and will occur at the same time staff is preparing for the 2025 Regional Plan. Preparing an amendment to the 2021 Regional Plan while staying on schedule to complete a 2025 Regional Plan by the December 2025 deadline will require multiple planning and modeling projects to be put on hold. This includes modeling work that SANDAG conducts for local jurisdictions and external agencies via Service Bureau, which will be delayed approximately six to seven months. Please know that all entities currently in our Service Bureau queue will be contacted individually in the next ten business days to discuss the delay and decide potential alternatives to complete requests. We recognize that many firms have been patiently waiting for SANDAG modeling services to complete important jurisdictional work and we sincerely regret this delay. 401 B Street, Suite 800 San Diego, CA 92101-4231 (619) 699-1900 j SANDAG.org Tammy Cloud-McMinn From: Sent: To: Subject: May 1, 2023 Lynda Daniels <1ynda6367@yahoo.com> Monday, May 1, 2023 1:46 PM City Clerk AGENDA ITEM -CAP 5/9/23 CITY COUNCIL MEETING All Receive -Agenda Item# C, For the Information of the: g-rycOUNCIL Date:J12/,23CA v CC L CM v ACM I"" DCM (3)L Dear Mayor Blackburn and City Council members, On May 9th you will be reviewing the CAP and I would like to comment on several items concerning our City of Carlsbad. First and foremost, I would like to see a Sustainability/Environmental Commission created that also could act as a climate task force! Monitoring businesses to be sure they are doing what is necessary to decrease Greenhouse Gas Emissions. One and a half years ago you declared a Climate Emergency for our city. This Commission could have been a first step in assessing our needs and our future with goals and deadlines. We also need the city website to reflect the progress we are making and suggestions on what our citizens can do as individuals to make our city mores sustainable! For instance -buy an induction stove, upgrade their electric panel so they can add other needed electric items such as an electric charger for their electric car and their water pump water heater! Planning in advance for upgrades with other steps the citizens can take to cut their carbon footprint. I bought my gardener an electric leaf blower as I do not want gas fumes on my property. Let's outlaw gas leaf blowers as Encinitas did in 2020! Give the gardeners a deadline and let them know about the rebates offered by CORE that encourages the switch! Gardeners can buy discounted zero-emission equipment! Running a gas leaf blower for 30 minutes creates more emissions than driving a F-150 pickup truck 3800 miles. Idling vehicles outside of schools endanger our children. Asthma and respiratory problems are caused by children breathing in these pollutants. Every gallon of gas burned produces more than 20 pounds of greenhouse gas emissions. Building Electrification is very important to me as a member of the San Diego Building Elec::trification Coalition composed of nearly 40 "green" organizations from The Surfriders to 350 San Diego to the Sierra Club. A building ordinance needs to be passed to require all new construction to be electric. Encinitas and Solana Beach did that nearly two years ago. The state is not only requiring solar panels on all rooftops, but in January 2023 there now has to be storage as well because we over produce energy during the day and there is not enough electricity for the evenings. Carlsbad needs targets and deadlines with repercussions if not met-100% renewable energy by 2035 with 85% by 2030! Thank you for your attention, Lynda Daniels 4547 Picadilly Court Carlsbad 92010 1 · All statements here can be researched at the following websites: https://revel-energy.com/cec-energy-code-to-require-solar-storage-in-2023/ https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2022/09/06/california-law-would-target-90-renewable-and-zero-carbon-electricity-by- 2035/#:~:text=The%20new%20Iegislation%20sets%20Ionger,to%20California%20end%2Duse%20customers. https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/20/1/75 https ://www .q u ietclea n pdx.o rg/wp-co ntent/ u ploads/2019 / 11/G as-Powe red-Leaf-Blower-Em issio ns-Factsheet-11.12. pdf https://www.dropbox.com/s/zlnc2cc3qv3vuh5/reports-electric power tools ua-2017-ofs.pdf?dl=0 https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2016/01/leafblower-legislation-local-press/625260/ https://californiacore.org/2022/11/04/new-core-funding-category-provides-more-than-27-million-for-small-business-landscc: https://www .dropbox.com/s/zlnc2cc3qv3vuh5/reports-electric power tools ua-2017-ofs. pdf?dl=0 https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2016/01/leafblower-legislation-local-press/625260/ https://californiacore.org/2022/11/04/new-core-funding-category-provides-more-than-27-million-for-small-business-landscc: https://afdc.energy.gov/fuels/laws/lR?state=CA#:~:text=ldle%20Reduction%20Requirement%20at%20Schools&text=When% https://www.epa.gov/schools/idle-free-schools-toolkit-healthy-school-environment https://www.deq.nc.gov/about/divisions/air-quality/motor-vehicles-air-qua lity/idle-reduction/why-idling- harmful#:~:text=ldling%20causes%20air%20pollution,20%20pounds%20of%20greenhouse%20gases. 2 Tammy Cloud-McMinn From: Sent: To: Subject: Good morning, Mark Mervich <mm@memervich.com> Friday, May 5, 2023 8:27 AM City Clerk Climat Action Plan Building electrification is an effective measure for reducing carbon in our atmosphere. Please include it in your Climate Action Plan . Also consider that local solar and wind power generation is a much cheaper solution than large remote solar or wind farms as it does not require expensive grid upgrades. Mark Mervich 650-400-0501 CAUTION: Do not open attachments or click on links unless ou recognize the sender and know the content i safe. 1 From: To: Sheila Cobian lli.Qerk Subject: Date: FW: Welcome to the Carlsbad Council, Ms Luna from Constituent Gerald Lance Johannsen of Terramar Friday, May 5, 2023 9:38:32 AM Attachments: ~ PPlease include the below email as correspondence received for Item #9 on the May 9, 2023, City Council agenda. From: Lance Johannsen <smileyjoh@hotmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2023 9:37 AM To: Sheila Cobian <Sheila.Cobian@carlsbadca.gov> Subject: Re: Welcome to the Carlsbad Council, Ms Luna from Constituent Gerald Lance Johannsen ofTerramar Hello Sheila. All the councils of our county, that consider themselves very progressive on the environment, seem to still be tiptoeing around some of the business and tourist polluters, which can be listed as massive but optional polluters, if prohibited. Oh, yeah, here is our local daisy State Parks field, next to Terra mar. At one time, the housing in our area, seemed to be fairly uniform in size. Not anymore, since the megamansion at 5511 Los Robles is being completed (the one on the right). From: Sheila Cobian <Sheila Cobjan@carlsbadca gov> Sent: Friday, April 21, 2023 11:39 AM To: smileyioh@hotmail com <smileyioh@hotmail com> Subject: FW: Welcome to the Carlsbad Council, Ms Luna from Constituent Gerald Lance Johannsen ofTerramar Good Morning Mr. Johannsen, Thank you for your welcome email to Council Member Luna. It has been forwarded to me so that I could reach out to you to discuss your concerns. If you wouldn't mind providing me with your phone number, I'd like to give you a call to chat about the issues you have pointed out. Please let me know when a good time to call you would be. In the meantime, have a wonderful weekend. It's supposed to be quite nice Thank you, (c ity of Carlsbad Sheila Cobian, MMC Legislative & Constituent Services Director 1200 Carlsbad Village Drive Carlsbad, CA 92008-1949 442-339-2917 Confidentiality Notice: Please note that email correspondence with the City of Carlsbad, along with any attachments, may be subject to the California Public Records Act, and therefore may be subject to disclosure unless otherwise exempt. Facebook I Tuill1.er I You Tube I Eli.ck[ I Pinterest I .E.o.e.fil From: Lance Johannsen <smdeyioh@hotmail com> Sent: Friday, April 7, 2023 9:21 AM To: Carolyn Luna <Caro!yn.Luna@caclsbadca.gov> Subject: Welcome to the Carlsbad Council, Ms Luna from Constituent Gerald Lance Johannsen ofTerramar I hope you have smooth sailing, for the term you were appointed to serve, as our district councilperson. And thank you for stepping forward. I see that you have some history with the BV Lagoon Foundation/JPA. I keep hoping that the dredging and removal of the choking weeds and the outlet weir will happen sooner, not later. Some of the blame for the flooding of Hwy 78 was laid on the weir that keeps the level of the lagoon abnormally high. I have walked down that part of the beach and have seen the "St Malo" weir. The greater good of the Lagoon is definitely being thwarted by the St Malo residents (with big wallets). I have one pet-peeve that I wish would be taken up by Council: Generator noise due to RV's, building construction, exhaust noise form car/motorcycle exhausts, and any un-natural human-caused noise that disturbs the peace of residents or anyone who like peace and quiet. My wife and I have lived on Carlsbad Blvd since 2007, and I note that there are just a few RV's that run generators: Some that are quiet, but some that blare loudly, especially if they are right across the street. One loud one is blaring outside right now and our windows are closed. Without a noise ordinance, we have no recourse, other than to beg the police to make a pitch to the apathetic RV owners, to perhaps run their loud, unmuffled generators less, or to perhaps place the generators behind the vehicles, or to park the ve hicles in the area where no homes are directly across from the RV's. I called the police today, tci ask (kindly) whether an officer could vis it the current daily offender of generator noise, and I suggested ways that the RV owner could run their generator, but allow us to have peace and quiet (and [perhaps hear the ocean breakers again). It is really, really annoying!!!!! Portable generators are also mass polluters, since these small motors have no catalytic converters, to arrest pollutants. They also often run fuel rich. Add to that the amounts of CO2 and the CO, that are thrown into the atmosphere by a screaming generator, and it shows why America and the world are still burning more and more fossil fuel each year. That makes me wonder if the Carlsbad City Council, is truly convinced that Global Climate Change is real enough to make real law/ordinance changes for what is allowed and what isn't. I would like to see more commitments by the Council to maybe avoid making our planet un-livable. EG: Joyriding to get out of the station house, has become a favorite ritual by several fire engine companies. Yet some engines, are casually driven by our house, several times a d,,w. These are large, diesel-powered vehicles that emit significant amounts of pollutants, and there is wear and tear on that expensive equipment. Then there are the glass chimney fire torches, that we see, outside of some businesses, that serve one purpose: To catch the attention of potential customers. Think of what 20 of these torch units, burn and emit over one year of use. For what? I visited a Rancho Mirage resort in 2019, and I found that the hotel had 50 fire pits that ignite automatically, each evening in front of each ground-level hotel room. As an engineer, I computed that the gas burned during one evening (5 hours) could supply the natural gas to 40 residential homes, for a month. The pits operated from 6 pm until 11 pm each evening. Something else on my radar, is the amount of treated 2ndary effluent wastewater, that is dumped into the ocean right after treatment at the Encina Wastewater Authority plant. It is still currently 2/3 being wasted, and only 1/3 being recycled. All this waste of treated effluent, after just treating it at a cost of $400 per million gallons. FYI: Carlsbad and the SDCWA, signed up for expensive desalination, which meant there was much less incentive to tertiary treat and recycle more wastewater. The once-published commitment by local officials, to increase the use of Encina wastewater by another 50%, is now in the category of a lie (to the public) and the real reason why more wastewater recycling, is not being advanced. Thank you for reading all or part of my email. Respectfully submitted, Gerald Lance Johannsen, Retired Civil Engineer, 5486 Carlsbad Blvd, Carlsbad (Did you know Mr. Wooten when he was on the BV Foundation?) CAUTION. Do not o en attachments or click on links unless ou reco nize the sender and know the content is safe. CAUTION. Do not o en attachments or click on links unless ou reco nize the sender and know the content is safe. Tammy Cloud-McMinn From: Sent: To: Cc: Subject: Dear Carlsbad Council, Barbara Diamond <diamondbarb@gmail.com> Friday, May 5, 2023 2:39 PM City Clerk Paige DeCino A Comprehensive Climate Action Plan for Carlsbad I am writing to express my support for the CAP update and urge the council to take bold action to address the climate emergency we face . As a concerned citizen of Carlsbad, I believe that it is our responsibility to prioritize strategies that will mitigate the effects of climate change and protect our planet for future generations. I am particularly interested in strategies such as building electrification, traffic reduction, energy storage, and reducing landfill waste. These solutions have been presented to the council on many occasions, but I am concerned by the lack of progress that has been made. I urge the council to open mindedly listen and consider the ideas and beliefs of the serious presenters and to have faith that we can make a significant impact to save our world. To that end, I suggest that the council create an Outreach Sustainability Commission that could educate and energize the citizens of Carlsbad on practical actions they can take to reduce their carbon footprint. This could include creating a website that provides information on using electric leaf blowers, avoiding idling one's car, and listing favorable businesses and government rebates available. Additionally, the weekly Managers Report could publish timely news on climate action similar to its reporting on Covid and vehicle and bike safety programs. I appreciate the council's attention to this critical issue and believe that Carlsbad can serve as a model for other communities in the fight against climate change. I urge the council to take swift action to prioritize climate solutions and create a comprehensive climate action plan for our city. Thank you for your time and consideration. Sincerely, Barbara C. Diamond ~Barbara Diamond~ CAUTION: Do not open attachments or click on links unless you recognize the sender and know the content i 1 Tammy Cloud-McMinn From: Sent: To: Subject: ziv ran <z1vr4n@gmail.com> Friday, May 5, 2023 5:44 PM City Clerk City Council Comment May 9th -Item 9 Item 9: Climate Action Plan Annual Report The city should ASAP ban gasoline-powered leaf blowers and lawn mowers because they are extremely polluting and noisy. Ziv Ran Forest Ave Carlsbad CAUTION: Do not open attachments or click on links unless ou recognize the sender and know the content i safe. 1 Tammy Cloud-McMinn From: Sent: To: Subject: John Deland <johnde321@gmail.com > Sunday, May 7, 2023 2:06 PM City Clerk City Council Comment-5/9-ltem 9 Item 9-Climate Action Plan Annual Report First, we need a sustainable timeline/target date for improvements. We need to electrify our city with battery storage. Both new construction and existing city properties. This should include electrifying the vehicle fleet. Stop unnecessary polluting! We need to accelerate the gas powered leaf blower ban! We need to enforce the 'No Idle' zone at schools. I have been a Carlsbad resident for 30 years and would like my voice to be heard above the prattle of 'profit at all cost' developers. Thanks and best wishes, John Deland 3350 Del Rio Ct. 92009 CAUTION: Do not open attachments or click on links unless ou recognize the sender and know the content i 1 Tammy Cloud-McMinn From: Sent: To: Subject: Dear Mayor and City Council, Mike McMahon <2mmcmahon@gmail.com> Sunday, May 7, 2023 3:18 PM City Clerk City Council Comment May 9th -Item 9 -CLIMATE ACTION PLAN ANNUAL REPORT FOR THE REPORTING PERIOD 6 The city recently approved the Five-Year-Strategic Plan showing that priorities of the community are sustainability and the natural environment as important values, and that greenhouse gas {GHG} emissions are a key performance indicator. We need to be much more proactive and lead the way by stating a 100% renewable energy target by 2035. Transportation is the largest sector or GHG emissions and as such, our community should strengthen its TDM commitment by lowering the threshold for developing a TDM plan. TDM should also monitor the shift from single occupancy vehicle transport and track the move to alternate modes of transportation in our CAP . Our buildings are our third largest source of GHG emissions. In order to reach our goals, the city needs to actively · partner with our community on exactly what we can do at the household level. We can select a 100% clean energy option from our energy provider CEA. We can cut down and eliminate natural gas emissions and its unhealthy by- products by moving to modern cleaner more efficient electric versions when the time comes for replacement. The city's website should be a resource to provide information and inform households the active steps they can take to become aware and lessen health and climate impact. Thank you for your consideration, Michael McMahon 2645 Sutter St Carlsbad, CA 92010 CAUTION: Do not open attachments or click on links unless ou recognize the sender and know the content i safe. 1 Tammy Cloud-McMinn From: Sent: To: Subject: Cliff L <crlipman@gmail.com > Sunday, May 7, 2023 9:25 PM City Clerk City Council Comment May 9th -Item 9 Hello -I would like to provide comment on item 9, "Climate Action Plan Annual Report" for the upcoming May 9 city council meeting. Carlsbad has been a well-managed, thriving community for decades thanks to excellent leadership and community outreach. We need to join numerous other communities in the state and be a leader in sustainability and environmental stewardship. In particular, we need to focus on: 1. catch up on banning fossil fuels for off-road equipment such as leaf blowers. We are long past the 'leading edge' of this movement and the benefits are real. Furthermore, state programs already exist to support landscape companies changing to electricity. Now is the time to eliminate the air and noise pollution from the old gasoline off-road equipment 2. Add a storage component to rooftop PV (Table 2, Measure M). This not only helps the grid during it's strained evening hours, and the added costs of storage will be paid back with reduced electrical bills. Again, this is not bleeding-edge legislation, rather it is well-tested and already being implemented in myriad ways throughout the country's legislative bodies Carlsbad is my home. Everyday we see how supportive our community is for the environment (by the vast number of electric vehicles, extensive rooftop PV installations, etc) -let's update our City policies to reflect this. Thank you for everything you do for the City. I sincerely hope that the Council considers my comments and I'm looking forward to hearing about the progress! If possible, I would appreciate a copy of the meeting minutes, especially on the topics I've mentioned above. And, of course, please feel free to contact me at any time with questions/ etc. Sincerely Cliff Lipman 6382 Paseo Aspada CAUTION: Do not open attachments or click on links unless you recognize the sender and know the content i safe. 1 Tammy Cloud-McMinn From: Sent: To: Vanessa Forsythe <vforsythe13@gmail.com> Monday, May 8, 2023 10:14 AM City Clerk Subject: City Council Comment May 9th -Item 9 All Receive -Agenda Item # :j_ For the Information of the: CITY COUNCIL Dat~,CA .....-CC _,,,... May 8, 2023 CM...!'.'.'.:.ACM ~DCM(3) .,,,,-- Dear Mayor Blackburn and City Council Members, Tuesday Katie Hentrich will be presenting an update on the Carlsbad Climate Action Plan (CAP). A year and a half ago you passed a Climate Emergency for our city recognizing that environmental protections in response to climate change impacts were necessary to sustain our community. As we are prepare for the 5 year update of the Carlsbad Climate Action Plan I ask that you support and adopt these recommendations for improving the CAP: • Create a Sustainability & Environmental Commission/Climate Task Force (foremost, based on what cities of Encinitas, Solana Beach and Escondido have -note other items that a citizen commission can work to inform and implement) • Include Target Dates (that are quantifiable and adhered with enforcement of items) • Add a Storage Component to Renewable Energy plans • Building Electrification -New Construction All-Electric Ordinance (not putting in new gas lines) •Address Off Road Equipment (ie Leaf Blowers) incentives exist to switch to non-gas equipment •Add Zero Waste Targets and Dates (let the public know where we are in implementing this change to composting trash pickup and incentivize) • Improve Transparency and Accountability (all city departments adhering to existing policies that protect our environment) • No Idle Zones at Schools (work with School Boards and PTA to promote this within our school district) • Strengthen Transportation Demand Management • Increase Transportation Oriented Development (inform the public that location for building impacts greenhouse gases that impact us all) • Improve Zero Emissions Vehicle Miles Traveled • Better CAP Outreach through Improvements on City Website (promote public awareness about how to make individual and community decisions to reduce greenhouse gasses) Thank you for your consideration ~ Vanessa Vanessa Forsythe RN MSN Pronouns: She/Her CleanEarth4Kids California Nurses for Environmental Health and Justice "Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks -no form of government can render us secure." James Madison CAUTION: Do not open attachments or click on links unless ou recognize the sender and know the content i safe. 1 Tammy Cloud-McMinn From: Sent: To: Subject: Attachments: Diane Nygaard <dnygaard3@gmail.com> Monday, May 8, 2023 12:16 PM City Clerk Comments on CAP CB CAP comments may 2023.doc Please reply to confirm timey receipt of the att comments. Thank you. Diane Nygaard CAUTION: Do not open attachments or click on links unless you recognize the sender and know the content i safe. 1 'Preserve Ca avera Coastal North San Diego County May 8,2023 Mayor and City Council City of Carlsbad Sent via email Subject: Comments on Climate Action Plan Honorable Mayor and City Council: The 6th annual Climate Action Plan (CAP) report is an excellent time to look forward to the updated CAP expected to come before council within the next few months. All the reports coming from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change continue to highlight that not enough is being done throughout the world and especially in first world countries. Everyone needs to step up and get more aggressive on climate change, including Carlsbad. Carlsbad's CAP currently has no target for reaching 100% renewable energy (either for municipal buildings/vehicles or for CEA, the Clean Energy Alliance, customers). CEA has a target of 100% by 2035 and all of the other six city members have such a target in their CAP's. Carlsbad needs to include that target into its CAP as well. The following additional actions would help ensure Carlsbad is doing its share toward addressing this global issue: Rooftop solar/storage Measure M addresses rooftop solar for residential, multi-family and commercial buildings with no mention of storage. While Carlsbad is ahead of its target for rooftop solar, there is no storage component. It's becoming more obvious that the proliferation of solar energy during the day needs to be harvested for peak, nighttime use in order to get to zero carbon emissions. Even someone signed up for CEA's Green Impact {100% clean energy) isn't really running on renewable energy 24/7. Natural gas is fueling their evening use. This is where storage comes in. Modify Measure M so that storage can become a serious consideration. CEA programs will be designed to help cities meet their CAP goals. If storage is added to our CAP, it will help guide the CEA on what programs to provide customers. Building electrification Carlsbad's original and amended CAP has no mention of building electrification. However, the CA Green Building Codes are adding electrification requirements each 3-year cycle and it's anticipated that in 2025 we may be looking at total electrification for .new construction. Because buildings contribute about 25% of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, decarbonizing our 5020 Nighthawk Way-Oceanside, CA 92056 www.preservecalavera.org Nonprofit 50l(c)3 ID#33-0955504 buildings only makes sense. CA is set to generate all its electricity from clean sources by 2045 so the transition is coming and we should be moving in that direction now. Electrifying buildings means lower and lower GHG emissions as the grid becomes cleaner. Besides addressing climate change building electrification has the benefit of improving indoor air quality. Burning methane gas produces noxious by-products that affect adults and children. For example, one study has shown that 13% of childhood asthma can be traced to gas stoves. Building new residences and commercial buildings without gas lines saves thousands of dollars and there are highly efficient replacements for gas water heaters, gas space heating, gas stoves and gas dryers. Transportation Transportation accounts for 50% of Carlsbad's emissions. The Transportation Demand Management (TOM) program is not aggressive enough. Given that there have been no businesses required to develop a TOM plan over the last 2 years attests to the fact that the threshold of 110 employee trips/day is too high. But in addition to new construction, it is time to include existing businesses in the overall plan to reduce transportation emissions. Creating expanded voluntary programs that mak~ it cost effective for existing business could be an important catalyst. Unfortunately, Carlsbad took a step backwards in March, when the council voted to approve the purchase of 40 new 100% fossil fuel police cruisers. Six of the cars were replacements for existing hybrids which will mean more GHGs will be emitted with the new vehicles. That was not a good faith effort to achieve the goals of Measure L to increase the zero-emissions vehicle miles traveled from 4.5% to 25% by 2035. The new CAP needs to put real teeth into this action item. Another transportation item to consider is a 'non-idling' ordinance at Carlsbad schools. Because I Carlsbad has no school buses, many students rely upon cars to get to and from school. California state law prevents idling for more than 5' within 100' of schools but most drivers probably don't know this. Idling contributes to GHG emissions and other noxious fumes, and soot, detrimental to children's health. The CAP also needs to rigorously support increased housing density at transit-oriented sites. This not only lowers VMT but could support more affordable housing. The city may need to bite the bullet and public opinion to upzone some sites for smart development. Off-road equipment Off-road equipment is most likely fueled by 2-stroke gasoline engines. Not only are they spewing out GHGs at exceptionally high rates but they are extremely noisy. Estimates show 30 minutes of running a gas leaf blower equates to driving a Ford F-150 truck 3800 miles (The Atlantic). Many actual landscapers don't wear head gear to mitigate the noise. Electric leaf blowers are less expensive than gas-powered ones and very much quieter. The city should pass an ordinance to phase in the banning of gas lawn mowers and leaf blowers and expedite compliance with new state laws that will soon require this. California's Clean Off-Road Equipment Voucher Incentive Program (CORE) is a way to aid in in this transition. Waste While solid waste is a quantifiable source of GHGs and is included in Carlsbad's inventory, none of the existing measures address this. Yes, new state laws mandate the processing of food waste but there are also other sources of waste, especially in construction. All significant waste streams should be addressed and metrics followed to ensure a reduction in GHGs . Outreach In order to communicate the climate emergency that we will all be impact by, the city needs to improve its outreach to its residents. While the CAP may not be the proper vehicle for this request, the city should consider the following suggestions to better inform residents about the severity of and solutions for climate change: Ill Create a web page to explain to residents how to best prepare to electrify their homes. Ill Create a Climate Champions program to inform residents how to lower their carbon footprint and acknowledge and highlight people that meet the challenge to lower GHGs. Ill Create an environmental or sustainability commission that could, in part, help monitor progress and improvement of the city's CAP and acting as a intermediary with the city staff and council. CAP Improvements Ill Include an executive summary. Ill Update table 5-1 (list of the CAP measures) with staff contact information, intermediate targets, status, and timeline Thank you for considering our comments. Sincerely, Diane Nygaard, President Preserve Calavera 760-724-3887 · Tammy Cloud-McMinn From: Sent: To: Subject: Tim Hitchman <thitchman@gmail.com> Monday, May 8, 2023 6:37 PM City Clerk ltem#9 Climate Action Plan Dear Carlsbad City Council Members All Receive -Agenda Item # q For the Information of the: ~'z.!TI~OUNCIL Oat~ CA V-CC V CM v ACM ~DCM (3) ✓ I am unable to attend the May 9, 2023 meeting when the City's Climate Action Plan will be discussed, but would like my comments to be entered as part of the record. As a concerned resident, I note the following significant issues with the CAP as presented: 1. The current CAP has no target for when we'll reach 100% renewable energy. All other cities within CEA (Clean Energy Alliance) have some kind of target (not necessarily for 100%) within their CAPs. Without a target there is no precise incentive to move towards 100%. Ideally dates would be given for 100% and intermediate targets 2. Gas-powered leaf blowers are source of local air pollution as well as noise pollution. It is unnecessary to use gas- powered versions since electric versions are readily available and cheaper to operate. Proportionally they are a major polluter given that operation for 30 min produces more emmissions than driving an F150 truck for 3800 miles!! Encinitas issued a ban in 2020! 3. There are no zero waste targets or dates to achieve those targets Thanks Tim Hitchman CAUTION: Do not open attachments or click on links unless you reco nize the sender and know the content i safe. 1 Tammy Cloud-McMinn From: Sent: To: Subject: jax1936@msn.com Monday, May 8, 2023 9:19 PM City Clerk Item #9 Climate Action Plan I urge you to take seriously your CAP . This REQUIRES more than lip service and will pay great benefits in the long term. Growth MUST have rational limits not just growth for the sake of growth, THE STRATEGY OF A CANCER CELL! Water and air pollution are Already problems created by thoughtless growth. It is time to set limits on all resource use since we live in a semi desert climate by choice. Damaging the marine ecosystems to get water for lawns and swimming pools e.g. are thoughtless. Traffic kills people and damages both the environment and people's quality of life presently. Many ways to change lifestyles exist, I am sure you understand. I stand ready to help you solve some of these problems if you wish. A grandfather, Dr. Jack Paxton CAUTION: Do not open attachments or click on links unless ou recognize the sender and know the content i safe. 1 Tammy Cloud-McMinn From: Sent: To: Subject: 5/9/23 marianne grisez <mgrisezmph@gmail.com > Tuesday, May 9, 2023 8:42 AM City Clerk Item# 9 Climate action plan I cannot be there in person but would like to make this entry as part of the record. Each city in my opinion needs an action plan. I applaud Carlsbad for being a leader of coastal communities. This is pertinent to all,especially those who live in coastal cities. Carlsbad can do this by changing from fos~il fuels for electricity to renewable sources. I urge the city to contact SDGE and urge them to act now in this most important issue. Thank you, Marianne Grisez 6387 Alexandri Circle CArlsbad,CA. 92011 "Climate action plans are comprehensive roadmaps that outline the specific activities that our cities, counties and state will undertake to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Climate action plans build upon the information gathered by greenhouse gas inventories and generally focus on those activities that can achieve the relatively greatest emission reductions in the most cost effective manner." CAUTION: Do not open attachments or click on links unless ou recognize the sender and know the content i safe. 1 Tammy Cloud-McMinn From: Sent: To: Subject: Comments from: Mary Oren Carlsbad resident 24 years Item 9 Climate Action Plan Annual Report Mary Oren <maryoren@aol.com> Tuesday, May 9, 2023 8:46 AM City Clerk City Council comment 5/9/23 item 9 City leaders it's an important time in our community and we're counting on you to represent and act on urgent issues, yes urgent and the good news is you can! We can, let's do this!! Please act now and commit to electrification of everything everywhere - In our houses, new and old, this can be done with incentives and rules. It's an easy fix and is already happening. On our streets by providing lots of charging opportunities for electric cars. Let's jump in big time on electric production and distribution. We're a sunny place with lots of parking lots where cars visit for 20 minutes or more. Let's cover parking with solar panels and help electric car use work better! More power produced could be used in other ways. Storage! Big issue simple solution. We must commit to storing clean power we produce to help provide secure safe energy and decrease our dependency on an outdated utility leaving residents vulnerable to price gouging and power outages. Let's follow examples set in other communities in California and use the sun to help us get where we want to go!? It's up there waiting patiently as a clean, powerful, endless solution. Look up not down for power, now. Let's also commit to developing wisely upward -with several stories on our buildings, placed near easy public transportation options. Carlsbad has the Coaster and it's awesome, we need more connections via electric buses etc to get people to work sites, home and other places. A free city electric bus that makes a Coastal and Village loop {like Laguna Beach) so kids and elderly and others can get around and to the beach would be awesome ! Let's consider a Sustainability & Environmental Commission Climate Task Force to take this on. The tech is here, the funds are here. We voted you in to represent these concerns. We can do this ! Let's go Carlsbad ! The brightest future is waiting for us to simply look up and act-it's time. Thank you for taking our safer, better future on, Mary Oren 1 Tammy Cloud-McMinn From: Sent: To: Subject: Council Internet Email Tuesday, May 9, 2023 10:47 AM City Clerk FW: City Council meeting agenda #9, May 9, 2023 From: Mary Hassing <mehassing@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 9, 2023 10:42 AM To: Council Internet Email <CityCouncil@carlsbadca.gov> Subject: City Council meeting agenda #9, May 9, 2023 Dear Mayor Blackburn and Council members, All Receive -Agenda Item # q For the Information of the: CITY COUNCIL Dat~CA V-cc ✓ CM v ACM ✓DCM (3).!:'.::. As you consider the update to Carlsbad's Climate Action Plan today, I hope you will support electrification in new residential, multi-family and commercial buildings. Buildings make up approximately 30% of GHG emissions today. New construction with electricity instead of gas lines will help our city gain cleaner air to protect the health and safety of all of us who live and work in Carlsbad. In California, all power is to be generated from renewables by 2045. Recent studies show that burning gas in our homes has serious implications for indoor air quality, with gas stoves a leading contributor to childhood asthma. Technologies like electric heat pumps and induction stoves are better for our health and climate, far mOre efficient than gas appliances, and are cost-effective. With new technologies like these, this is our opportunity to move to buildings that are healthier for our families and our planet. In 2021, the Council passed a resolution declaring a Climate Emergency to guide future policy and direction for city staff. In the spirit of that resolution, please support electrification of all new construction in Carlsbad . Thank you for your work on this important issue, Mary Hassing 2679 Regent Road Carlsbad, CA 92010 CAUTION: Do not o en attachments or click on links unless ou recognize the sender and know the content i 1 Tammy Cloud-McMinn From: Sent: To: Subject: Greetings! solar-guy@gmx.com Tuesday, May 9, 2023 1 :02 PM City Clerk May 9 Agenda Item #9 -Climate Action Plan We believe a strong Climate Action Plan is needed to reduce greenhouse gas {GHG) emissions and promote a better future for the City of Carlsbad. In particular, 1. We applaud the City of Carlsbad for their electrification reach code for water heaters, and we encourage the City to extend electrification to include space heating as well. 2. We encourage inclusion of storage along with solar PV in any incentives, since we cannot get to 100% renewables without significant amounts of storage. 3. We support efforts to increase electric vehicle use in Carlsbad. Electric vehicle miles traveled (VMT) do not contribute nearly the GHG emissions as fossil-fuel vehicle VMT. We encourage the City to move towards all- electric vehicles wherever feasible in their fleets. Sincerely, Roger & Cindy Davenport Oceanside (near neighbors) CAUTION: Do not open attachments or click on links unless ou recognize the sender and know the content i safe. 1 Tammy Cloud-McMinn From: Sent: To: Subject: Attachments: Our comment is attached. Thank you, John Bottorff CleanEarth4Kids.org 949-439-5459 J@C1eanEarth4Kids.org John Bottorff <j@c1eanearth4kids.org > Tuesday, May 9, 2023 2:04 PM City Clerk Comment for Item #9 Climate Action Plan Carlsbad's Climate Action Plan comment May 9 2023.pdf All Receive -Agenda Item # CJ For the Information of the: CITY COUNCIL Date.S/Jo}fI'CA _ cc _iL' CM_ACM_DCM (3) ~ CAUTION: Do not open attachments or click on links unless ou recognize the sender and know the content i safe. 1 CleanEarth4Kids.org May 9, 2023 Mayor Blackburn and Carlsbad City Council, CleanEarth4Kids.org thanks you and staff for your work to protect our environment and the climate. Below are a few of our suggestions for the Climate Action Plan. We will follow up with more. 100% Building Electrification for New Construction with No Exceptions Methane is a hazardous indoor air pollutant and a major contributor to climate change. 1•2 The use of gas stoves in the home increases the risk of asthma and other respiratory diseases.3 And gas stoves leak methane even when turned off.4 We must completely end the use of "natural gas". This important action will encourage green buildings, reduce carbon emissions and air pollution, and help protect the health of children and future generations. Burning gas creates outdoor and indoor air pollution. Almost half of the pollution from California buildings result from the burning of gas, mainly for heat and hot water. Studies of human exposure to air pollutants show that "indoor levels of pollutants may be two to five times, and occasionally more than 100 times, higher than outdoor levels," and a major source of indoor air pollution is gas stoves.5 Here is a link to our Dangers of Natural Gas video. 6 Click ~ for more information. 7 Air pollution is linked to asthma, decreased lung function, heart disease, cancer, and other serious health problems. Asthma is the most common chronic illness among children, the largest cause of school absences, and is the third leading cause of hospitalization among children under the age of 15.8 Asthma also disproportionately affects communities of color. 9 The burning of fossil fuels causes 1 in 10 premature deaths in the US and 1 in 5 1 https: //www.vox.com/2022 / 1 /27 /22902490 /gas -stoves-methane-climate-pollution-health-off 2 http· I (www eeb corn en edu /howarth /documents /Howarth 2021 Methane and Climate pdf 3 https: / /www.sciencetimes.com/ gas-stoves-making-people-sicker-exposing-children-higher-risk-asthma.htm 4 https· //news st;mford ed111202210 l /27/rethjnkjng-cookjng-gas I 5 https://www.epa.gov/iaq-schools /why-indoor-air-quality-important-schools 6 https://vimeo.com/704755689 7 https: / /cleanearth4kids.org/clean-air#gas 8 https: / /www.cdc.gov/healthyschools /asthma/ index.htm 9 https · t (www healthline. com / health / asthma /barriers-to-breath-health-disparities 1 globally. 10 Air pollution is a racial, social, climate and environmental justice issue. Air pollution from oil and gas production causes $77 billion in health costs in the US every year. 11 Over 60 cities in California have already passed electrification ordinances and others are underway.12 Ban Leaf Blowers Most gas-powered leaf blowers are 2 stroke engines which burn a mix of oil and gas. These engines not only put out a massive amount of pollution, but they also do not have a filter. The pollutants13 from a single gas-powered leaf-blower are 300x more than a pickup truck with gas-powered lawn equipment using an estimated 800 million gallons of gasoline. This contributes to more air pollution in our air, and damaging ozone as these nitrous oxides contribute to the damage that occurs. With and-without a filter, the dangers of gas-powered leaf blowers are immense. Gas-powered leaf-blowers emit carbon monoxide, nitrous oxides, hydrocarbons and other pollutants14 such as formaldehyde, benzine, fine particulate matter, and smog forming chemicals. These pollutants are known to cause diseases that affect the heart and lungs, as well as cancer, dementia, and headaches15• The health effects16 linked to gas-powered leaf blowers are asthma, cardiovascular disease, lung cancer, respiratory disease, and central nervous system disorders. No Idling Car exhaust is full of toxic chemicals like benzene and carbon monoxide. 1 minute of idling puts more carbon monoxide into the air than smoking 3 packs of cigarettes.17 Please take action to reduce idling by all city vehicles, including police cars. Link for more information on idling. 18 Sincerely, ~~~ Educational Director & Founder S@CleanEarth4 Kids .org (760) 650-2166 CleanEarth4Kids.org 10 https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/ fossil-fuel-air-pollution-responsible-for-1-in-5-deaths-worldwide / 11 https· I /medjca]xpress com /news /2023-05-ajr-po))ution-ojj-gas-productioo html 12 h ttps: / /www.sandiegouniontribune.com I communities I del-mar-to-consider-building-electrification-ordinance 13 bttps· //sustaioabj]jcy wustJ edu /retbiokiog-Jawn-eq:njpment-2 I 14 h ttps: / / sustainability.wustl. edu / rethinking-lawn-eguipmen t-2 / 1.5.h ttps: / /www.quietcleanpdx.org/leaf-blowers-dangers-pollu tion / # 16 https: //www.guietcleandc.com/two-stroke-engine-public-health-issues 1 7 http: / / enginesoff. com/ pdfs / CA SEO-Background-Report. pdf 18 https: L /cleanearth4kids org/ stop-idling 2 Climate Action Plan Annual Report for Reporting Period 6, Jan. 1 2022 –Dec. 31, 2022 Katie Hentrich, Senior Program Manager, City of Carlsbad Theresa Medina, College Corps Fellow, University of San Diego May 9, 2023 (city of Carlsbad TODAY’S PRESENTATION •Climate Action Plan (CAP) Annual Report 6 •Implementation highlights •College Corps and community engagement •Status of CAP Update •Recommended action (City of Carlsbad BACKGROUND •CAP approved Sept. 22, 2015 with General Plan Update •GHG inventory, targets, and forecast •Suite of measures to reach GHG reduction targets •Amended July 14, 2020 •Updated GHG inventories, targets, and forecast •Updated CAP measures and added CCE •Requires annual monitoring and reporting ( City of Carlsbad 2012 GHG INVENTORY 50% 31% 14% 3%1%1%>1% On-road transportation Electricity Natural gas Solid waste Off-road transportation Water Wastewater Total emissions: 977,000 MTCO2e ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ( City of Carlsbad GHG EMISSIONS BASELINE, REDUCTIONS, AND TARGETS 977,000 937,920 468,960 0 200,000 400,000 600,000 800,000 1,000,000 1,200,000 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 2028 2029 2030 2031 2032 2033 2034 2035 MT C O 2e Year CAP Baseline & Targets 2018 Inventory 930,000 l l l CAP MEASURES •Energy efficiency •Renewable energy •Transportation •Water •City-specific and communitywide activities { City of Carlsbad CAP PROGRESS 3% 46% 46% 5%Complete (16 actions) In progress, on schedule (16 actions) In progress, delayed (2 actions) Not started (1 action) (city of Carlsbad IMPLEMENTATION HIGHLIGHTS •Launched Home Energy Score Assessment pilot program and 21 assessments (Measure D-2) •Certified 8 businesses in the Carlsbad Green Business Program •Completed measures and actions related to: •Energy efficiency retrofits of city facilities (Measure F-1) •Increasing low-and zero-emission city fleet-related VMT (Measure L-7) •Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from water utilities (Measure N-1) { City of Carlsbad #CALIFORNIANSFORALL COLLEGE CORPS •“Provides over 10,000 students with opportunities to support and learn from community based organizations.” •Works to develop service programs in K-12 education, food insecurity, and climate action Meet the Fellows tt ttt t t i tt 3 200 + Colleg7 Corps Fellows I statewide AB 540 CA Dream Act Students tt1tt 1 tt1 ttt Nearly 10 000 applicants statewide, I 3 applicants for every available slot Fellows by Focus Area it 28 % work'.ng to address •.. food insecurity ••• 191 20 o/c taking 0 climate action 1 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT November 2022 Village Fair Village Fair 2022 Community Input V c~ 110!\l( \J1A§(\Q,, 'f;?CVJAJ CCM1JJ /;l -~~ ~ •t fou;;,L, '-L~ ,-1-u_p Wch!e.v f \ct»L'r'; -\,QU, ~~ti,Jt Q,111u¼_ ,.;;,e, ,\ w<-'rv, Y\JJ,,,olf SIN,wCO-se.. ~.-li>r,o >,t,v___ ca <l_,v\A -\, -~.._,;,,, \eAf<IYJJU/ O <1oe,I,(: t'\\..ove \.\.,tlfQ,\ V\o&, V-'L r,z.c-"jcloJol.e C,-eaM,_ ltf \\})J ~~ <?,'4(0kiW1 P r°'-Wl"J .S-ln:h0\/1,,;-~<\ \/1Stc\..._ --<b ./2,Aj'4"'fWl-':J VI(~ ~\\; Wis~"':) 1.,q-'<, ]e.$, re.uw, le, 'fV,jcJ Q., ? [,<_Hi'c L;,,v.u, ~ ~<'S {- ki l~115y Sf«ch O<\r (t,\J~ '°\OSK) c\el),v\ l<f How can Carlsbad be more sustainable? 0) C composting organic food clean buena vista l,agoon +-' (/) (/) 0 u a. ·- reuse plastic water filling stations E l:i 0 (l) o E enforce a vision low-flow toilets C 0 trees don't pollute storm drain use less plastic better composting reusable water bottles I. parKs green new deal ~ recyc 1ng ~ educat·on involvement solar energy elec ric car chargers clean up recyc le paper economy diversity naive lants monitor pesticide data danger of pesticide beach clean ups composting at apartments e-waste education be more welcoming stop developing water bottle stations pesticide education water plants with runoff clean up ocean trash COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT EGGstravaganza Community Input April 2023 EGGstravaganza COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT April 2023 Earth Fair Earth Fair Community Input ·~ :,o,. -~ f'ii 5r'1 2S1N/POl1'\JL(;ilOIN/PO,'P\JL(i 30"'=:-LJL.ra ~~t~~JOHOJAS 3M t -~ - •Completed Phase I of public engagement •Continued meeting with staff from multiple departments •Began assessing possible measures and actions to include in CAP Update •Delays caused by backlog of SANDAG Service Bureau requests STATUS OF CAP UPDATE { City of Carlsbad CAP UPDATE NEXT STEPS •Finalize data collection •Assess GHG inventory and reduction targets •Prepare candidate CAP measures •Review with staff who implement CAP •Present suite of measures for possible inclusion in draft CAP Update to City Council and the public (tent. late summer 2023) I ◄ RECOMMENDED ACTION Adopt a resolution accepting the Climate Action Plan Annual Report for reporting period 6, Jan. 1, 2022 –Dec. 31, 2022 { City of Carlsbad