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Frewert Traffic Impact Study 5.0 BACKGROUND PLUS PROJECT C• • 5.1 VEHICLE MILES TRAVELED (VMT) Compliance with Senate Bill (SB)743 will include replacement of LOS with Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT)for purposes of assessing traffic impacts under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) described in new Section 15064.3 of the CEQA Guidelines that will be applied statewide that began on July 1,2020. Lead agencies will have discretion to choose the most appropriate methodology to evaluate a project's vehicles miles traveled,including whether to express the change in absolute terms, per capita, per household or any other measure. VMT refers to the amount and distance of automobile travel "attributable to a project". San Joaquin County formally adopted CEQA Transportation Analysis Guidelines in September 2020. The guidelines provide a general guide in assessing the potential transportation impacts of proposed projects under CEQA. 1.Screening Criteria The County guidelines provide standards for identifying which types of projects should be expected to not result in a significant VMT impact, and a detailed CEQA analysis would not be required to evaluate the project VMT.The following are project types that maybe screened out for further VMT analysis: • Projects that generate fewer than 110 daily trips. • Map based screening for Residential and Office Projects. The project falls outside of the screening maps provided by San Joaquin County. • Less than significant impact near transit stations. The project is not located within a half mile of an existing major transit stop. • Less than significant impact near affordable residential development.The project is not a housing project and thus does not contain any affordable residential housing units. Since the screening criteria mentioned above do not apply to this project, a qualitative VMT analysis was prepared. 2.VMT Forecasting TJKM has prepared this VMT analysis for the Lathrop Area Truck Parking Facility project, which consist of a 34 acre parcel which will be converted to a truck parking terminal for 677 trucks. In addition,there will be a 1,000 square foot guardhouse, a 2,800 square foot truck fueling facility canopy, an 80 square foot truck scale building, and an existing 4,900 truck maintenance shop for the facility. The facilities for this project total 8,780 square feet. For VMT forecasting, the San Joaquin County Transportation Analysis Guidelines (September 2020, page 5) states that VMT is only relevant for daily automobile travel. As this project is a truck terminal parking facility, only the site buildings will be analyzed for the VMT significance criteria. Under CEQA, small office projects that are consistent with the San Joaquin County General Plan and are smaller than 11,300 square feet in size are exempt from VMT analysis and thus do not have a significant VMT impact. Since the total build out component for this project totals only 8,780 square feet, it is found to have an insignificant impact on VMT. The truck parking terminal project is also strategically located near other trucking hubs, and also is located near two major freeway ramps (Roth Road to the north and Lathrop Road to the south) for Interstate 5. Most importantly,this project is located right next to the Union Pacific Lathrop Intermodal Terminal,which Page 120 TJKM