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PlanningBoard | 2019-05-28 | 8 | President Sullivan said that she remembers all electric homes having bills of $300-600 per month. She asked how the decision was made for Alameda to be global leaders on this issue. Staff Member Smith said the community was the initial source of the interest in setting that goal. She added that it became more of a declarative statement when the City Council passed the climate emergency declaration in March. Board Member Curtis asked if there was a budget in place for the items listed in the already planned category. Staff Member Smith said that the budget for those items would be in their associated plans, such as the Transportation Choices Plan. Board Member Curtis asked if there would be significant diminishing returns for the marginal actions that would make them cost prohibitive. Staff Member Smith said they include the unit of dollars per metric cubic ton of carbon dioxide removed from the atmosphere in the plan. She said their process was a balancing act between achieving goals and including what was important to the community. She continued to say that those tradeoffs are noted in the plan. Board Member Curtis said he is concerned about costs of construction increasing which prevents planned developments from proceeding. He said the plan needs to be integrated with what the City is trying to achieve in response to the housing crisis. Staff Member Thomas said the City will have to look at what they are requiring of new developments and evaluate what new things might be important and what existing requirements need to go in order to keep projects feasible. Board Member Teague asked that the 2005 baseline be included and clarified in relation to the proposed actions versus business as usual pathways. He said the mitigations should be presented in a way that prioritizes actions for greatest effect relative to cost. He asked that the pie chart have the Transportation category broken down between different classes of vehicles such as trucks versus single occupancy vehicles. He said the telecommuting goal of 1.5 days per week is a strange number, saying someone that telecommutes half a day has commuted. He said encouraging water heating with rooftop solar is a good strategy. He said increased temperatures will lead Alamedans to install air conditioning systems which will increase demand for electricity at the exact time that solar could provide the increased energy. He pointed out that we can purchase clean energy, but that will leave the dirty energy for someone else to purchase. He suggested that if we ban leaf blowers, barbecues should be on the list. He wondered when the last 50 year storm occurred in Alameda. Approved Planning Board Minutes Page 8 of 11 May 28, 2019 | PlanningBoard/2019-05-28.pdf |