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Climate Protection Assistance to
Bay Area Local Governments
CEQA and Climate Change:
Partnering with Local Agencies to Combat Global Warming
March 20, 2008
Ana Sandoval
Principal Environmental Planner
Bay Area Air Quality Management District
Local Government Climate
Protection Needs
Framework and guidance
Definition of expectations
Models: templates, protocols, etc.
Capacity
Subject-specific expertise
On staff or under partnership
Resources to implement
To fund activity, capital
Grants, financing
Support
Mentor and orient
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Local Government Assistance
Grant Program
Creating framework and knowledge base
Replication of best practices
Identifying innovative reduction strategies
Planning Process support: 15 Climate Action plans, 7 general plans
Building capacity
7 new permanent municipal energy staff
Access to intern and consultant assistance
Providing support
Tracking progress and communicating results
Ongoing mentoring
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Local Government Assistance
Inventory Development
Inventory framework
Refer to established methodology
Capacity building
Training through a workshop series to build in-house expertise
Complement with BAAQMD, ICLEI expertise
Support
Fielding phone calls
Access to Data/Streamline data requests
Provide guidance to data providers
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Local Government Assistance
Workshop Series
Partnership with ICLEI. Workshops focus on:
Community-wide inventory development
Santa Clara, San Mateo, Marin
30 local governments have participated
Municipal level inventory development
Building a climate action plan: Selecting GHG reduction
strategies
• Other Workshops
• EPA – grant seeking and writing
• BCDC - Preparing for Sea Level in the Bay Area
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Local Government Assistance
Regional and State Partnerships
Data partnership with ICLEI, MTC, PG&E, others
JPC Collaboration
ARB Scoping Plan
CCAR Local Government Protocol Development
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Local Government Assistance
Planning Process
Climate action plans
Best practices
General plans
Field phone inquiries
Drafting Air Quality Element guidelines
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Local Government Assistance
CEQA Review
Need for framework and guidance
Uncertainty about climate change and CEQA
Attorney General cases
AB 32 scoping plan
CAPCOA sees need to address, publishes CEQA and
Climate Change White Paper
Explores threshold options
Presents tools for impact quantification
Presents list of mitigation measures (~100) and their efficacy
Districts will now explore local guidance
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Future Work
Grant program
Continue support, track and communicate results
Workshop series
Next steps: municipal inventory training
Partnerships
Build on inventory data partnership
Continue JPC, ARB, CCAR partnerships
Planning and CEQA
General plan Air Quality Element guidelines
CEQA Guidelines development
Local Government focused regional summit in 2009
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Contacts
Partnerships, Inventories
Ana Sandoval
[email protected]
415.749.4667
Grants and Financing
Abby Young
[email protected]
415.749.4754
Planning and CEQA
David Vintze
[email protected]
415.749.5179
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