REPORT TO COUNCIL
SUBJECT
Title
Authorize the City Manager to Execute three Site Agreements with EVgo Services LLC allowing the installation of four Electric Vehicle (EV) Fast-Charging Stations at each of the following sites: the Community Center, Downtown Parking Lot at the southwest corner of W. Evelyn Avenue and S. Sunnyvale Avenue and Downtown Parking Lot at the southeast corner of S. Frances Street and W. Evelyn Avenue, in Sunnyvale and find that the Project is Exempt from CEQA
Report
BACKGROUND
On August 13, 2019, City Council voted to adopt the Climate Action Playbook (CAP) to reduce greenhouse emissions and address climate change. Pursuant to the Playbook, Play 3.3 aims to increase zero-emission vehicles to 20% of all vehicles on the road by 2030 and 75% by 2050. To facilitate this transition to zero-emission vehicles and, more specifically, electric vehicles (EV), the City is aiming to develop a Community Electric Vehicle Readiness and Infrastructure Plan that would guide the City's strategy for enhancing EV infrastructure (Move 3.J in the CAP).
As a first step towards this broader EV infrastructure strategy, the City is focused on increasing the availability of publicly accessible EV charging stations to support the transition to EVs. Through soliciting proposals from various vendors, EVgo the vendor with the largest public fast charging network in the country that utilizes 100% renewable energy, was selected as the provider of the EV fast-charging stations.
EXISTING POLICY
General Plan, Chapter 3, Land Use and Transportation and Chapter 7, Environmental Management
* GOAL LT-2.2 Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions that affect climate and the environment through land use and transportation planning and development.
* GOAL LT-2.2a Actively maintain and implement the Climate Action Plan, which outlines impacts, policies, and reduction measures related to public and private land use and transportation.
* GOAL EM-11.5 Reduce automobile emissions throug...
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