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Comment 22 for Provides the public and stakeholders opportunities to provide "informal" public comments as part of ARB's 2013 Scoping Plan Update Workshop Series (2013-sp-update-ws) - 1st Workshop.
First Name: Nicole
Last Name: Vermilion
Email Address: nvermilion@planningcenter.com
Affiliation: The Planning Center/DC&E
Subject: 2013-SP-Update-WS
Comment:
The 2013 Update to the Scoping Plan should establish interim (Post-2020 but pre-2050)targets to address the long-term goal to reduce GHG emissions to 80% below 1990 levels by 2050. These targets should be clearly articulated for the state as a whole (or separate sectors) and qualitative/quantitative goals should be identified for local governments. It may be important to distinguish goals for established (built-out out communities) v. growing communities (communities that will experience an increase in sources of emissions despite federal, state, and regional GHG emissions reductions)when considering local GHG reduction goals for local jurisdictions. One of the most far reaching statements in the 2008 Scoping Plan for local communities was in regard for local governments to achieve a 15% reduction by 2020. While this was never originally intended to apply on a city-by-city (or county-by-county) basis, but for the State as a whole, this local goal was applied by local jurisdictions while preparing local greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction plans and for the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) thresholds. Discussion regarding these type of quantitative/qualitative statements should be given careful review in this next update because of the far reaching consequences with regard to CEQA and significance thresholds used in CEQA documents. Furthermore, outreach with local governments on what types of programs are needed to further he state in achieving the long term goal should be conducted. These types of programs (including funding programs)should be considered in the 2013 Update.
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Date and Time Comment Was Submitted: 2013-08-01 09:31:34
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