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Administrative Draft Environmental Impact Report Gill Medical Center Project 4.10.3.4 Project Impacts and Mitigation Measures Impact 4.10-1: Proposed project GHG emissions and compliance with GHG plan, policy, or regulation. Impact Determination: Significant and Unavoidable Threshold: Contribution of Greenhouse Gas Emissions at a Level that would Conflict with an Applicable Plan, Policy, or Regulation of an Agency Adopted for the Purpose of Reducing the Emissions of Greenhouse Gases As previously stated, the County General Plan has established GHG reduction goals for 2035 and 2050. To achieve the GHG reduction goals the County has adopted policies, programs, and reduction strategies in the General Plan. In order to establish a current and projected baseline for GHG emission levels in the unincorporated areas of the county, a GHG emissions inventory was developed. Both the existing and the projected County-wide GHG inventories in the County General Plan were derived based on the land use designations and associated designations defined in the County of San Joaquin General Plan. Similarly, the strategy to achieve the mandated 16 percent per capita reduction in mobile-source GHG emissions by 2035 promulgated by the SJCOG RTP/SCS is based on a land use and transportation scenario which defines a pattern of future growth and transportation system investment for the region. The assumptions surrounding the assumed pattern of future growth are guided by the land use designations contained in local general plans, including the County of San Joaquin General Plan. The projected regional development pattern in the SJCOG RTP/SCS, including location of land uses and residential densities in local general plans, when integrated with the proposed regional transportation network identified in the RTP/SCS, would reduce per capita vehicular travel—related GHG emissions and achieve state-mandated GHG reduction per capita targets for the SJCOG region.The 2018 RTP/SCS is based on a land use and transportation scenario which defines a pattern of future growth for the region. The Project site is designated General Agricultural (A/G) by the San Joaquin County General Plan.This designation provides for large-scale agricultural production and associated processing, sales, and support uses.The A/G Designation generally applies to parcels outside areas planned for urban development where soils are capable of producing a wide variety of crops and/or support grazing.Typical building types include low-intensity structures associated with farming and agricultural processing and sales. However, the Proposed Project involves construction and operation of a hospital and medical center. As discussed in the project description section of this Draft EIR, according to the San Joaquin County Development Title Section 9-115.525, the proposed use is properly classified under the Public Services- Essential use type. Because the Proposed Project is consistent with the Public Services-Essential use it may be permitted within the General Agricultural zone and no Development Title or zone change is required to implement the project. Nonetheless,while hospital and medical centers are allowed uses on lands designated A/G,this is to allow for flexibility in accommodating such essential uses. It is not the expectation that all lands designated A/G in the county will be developed with hospitals and medical centers.Thus, the Project's proposed uses would not be consistent with the anticipated types, intensity, and patterns of land use envisioned for the Greenhouse Gas and Climate Change 4.10-12 October 2021