SUPPLEMENTAL REPORTS & COMMUNICATIONS
Office of the City Clerk
City Council of the City of Napa
Regular Meeting
September 2nd, 2025
FOR THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NAPA
SUBMITTED PRIOR TO THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING
AFTERNOON SESSION
4. PUBLIC COMMENT ON NON-AGENDA ITEMS:
• William Cocker received August 27, 2025.
6. ADMINISTRATIVE REPORTS:
6.A Regional Climate Action and Adaptation Plan Update and Discussion • Presentation from Staff.
• Email from Sophie Wassef received on September 2, 2025.
6.C Hidden Glen Remediation Project
• Presentation from Staff.
Napa County Regional Climate Action and Adaptation Plan August 2025
What is the RCAAP?
• Comprehensive, long-range, climate plan
• Achieves countywide GHG reduction targets and carbon
neutrality goals for 2030 and 2045
• Provides countywide strategy for climate adaptation and resilience.
• Builds on existing sustainability & climate initiatives • Regional, coordinated plan
• Addresses regional emissions and regional climate change impacts (all jurisdictions)
• Prepared and reviewed by member agencies of the Climate Action Committee (CAC):
• County of Napa
• City of American Canyon
• City of Calistoga
• City of Napa
• City of St. Helena
• Town of Yountville
Why is the RCAAP Needed?
Our Climate Emergency Requires Urgent Action
Source: YPCCC (no date); figure developed by Ascent in 2025.
Partnerships and
Collaboration
• 6 Local Jurisdictions
• Community
• Utilities
• Regional Agencies
• State of California
• Federal Government
We’re all in this together!
Climate Action: GHG Mitigation
Napa County’s Regional GHG Emissions Inventory (2019)
Forecasted GHG Emissions, Targets, and GHG Reduction Measures
8 Regional Climate Action and Adaptation Plan
RCAAP GHG Reduction
Strategies
• 21 Strategies, aligned with GHG emissions
sectors + carbon sequestration opportunities
• 46 GHG Emission Reduction Measures
• 17 quantifiable measures
• 100+ Implementing Actions
• Many short-term actions (next 5 years)
• Long-term actions (beyond 5 years)
9 Regional Climate Action and Adaptation Plan
Building Energy
• Clean and Efficient Energy Use in Existing Buildings
• Retrofit All Existing Buildings to Zero Carbon
• Energy Audits & Incentives
• Increase Renewable Energy Generation & Storage
• Sustainable Winery Certifications
• Zero-Carbon New Development
• Require New Buildings to be Zero-Carbon
• Energy Education, Awareness, and Behavior Change
• Empower Community to Reduce Building Energy Emissions Anthropogenic reductions in 2045: 58,375 MTCO2e
• 8% of all reductions
• 14% of all anthropogenic reductions
10Regional Climate Action and Adaptation Plan
Transportation
• Reducing How Much We Drive (vehicle miles traveled, or VMT)
• Increase Active Transportation Options
• Expand Mobility Options for Visitors/Tourism
• Reduce Winery Wastewater Hauling
• Electrification of Vehicles & Equipment
• Transition Fleets to ZEVs
• Increase EV Charging and Hydrogen Fueling Infrastructure • Expand Zero-Carbon Fuels
• Transportation Education
Anthropogenic reductions in 2045: 76,511 MTCO2e
• 10% of all reductions
• 18% of all anthropogenic reductions
11Regional Climate Action and Adaptation Plan
Solid Waste
• Promote Zero Waste
• Increase Solid Waste Diversion
• Reduce Construction & Demolition Waste
• Waste Education (Reduce/Reuse/Recycle/Compost)
• Reduce Existing Landfill Emissions
• Increase Methane Capture Capacity and Efficiency
• Support Waste-to-Energy
Anthropogenic reductions in 2045: 173,057 MTCO2e
• 23% of all reductions
• 41% of all anthropogenic reductions
12 Regional Climate Action and Adaptation Plan
Water & Wastewater
• Reduce Water Waste
• Improve Water Conservation &( Efficiency
• Native and Drought-Tolerant Landscaping
• Reduce Methane Emissions from Treatment Plants
• Explore Recycled Water Opportunities
Anthropogenic reductions in 2045: 45,412 MTCO2e
• 6% of all reductions
• 11% of all anthropogenic reductions
13 Regional Climate Action and Adaptation Plan
Agriculture and Open
Space
• Reduce Fossil Fuel Use in Farming Equipment
• Increase Carbon Farming
• Increase Sustainable Vineyard Certifications
• Sustainable Livestock Practices
• Expand Urban Forest
• Accelerate Woodland and Forest Restoration and
Stewardship
• Avoid or Minimize Carbon Stock Loss Attributable to
Land Use Change
Climate Adaptation
Source: CA Adaptation Planning Guide
Climate Adaptation & Resilience Strategies
• All-Hazards Approach to Climate
Resilience: People, Infrastructure,
Natural Resources
• Wildfire Risk Reduction and
Preparedness
• Extreme Heat Mitigation
• Enhanced Flood Protection
• Long-Term Adaptation to Sea-Level
Rise
• Energy Grid Resilience
16Regional Climate Action and Adaptation Plan
Implementation &
Monitoring
• Local adoption of the RCAAP (all 6 jurisdictions)
• Regionally-coordinated implementation strategy
• Ongoing Monitoring, Reporting, Updating
• Periodic GHG inventory updates
• Annual reporting on targets and key indicators
• Periodic updates to RCAAP
• Order-of-magnitude cost estimates for limited subset
of measures
• 9 GHG measures and 10 adaptation measures
• Important note: Not a full-scale cost estimate for entire plan.
• Potential funding & financing sources identified
• Funding and financing strategy tied to timing and
prioritization will be critical
17Regional Climate Action and Adaptation Plan
Next Steps
• Aug 1 – Sept 30, 2025: Public Review & Comment Period • Fall 2025 - Winter 2026: Review Comments, Prepare Final RCAAP, Complete Environmental Review Process
• Spring 2026: Adoption Hearings
• 2026 – 2045: RCAAP Implementation
From: Sophie Wassef
To: Clerk
Cc: katezz; Jim Wilson; Arya Adhye; Claire Mulligan
Subject: Re: 9/2/25 Napa City Council Meeting, Agenda Item 6.A - Regional Climate Action and Adaptation Plan Update and Discussion
Date: Tuesday, September 2, 2025 12:33:10 PM
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Dear Napa City Council Members,
My name is Sophie Wassef and I am a senior at Justin-Siena High School. For the past two years, I have been a leader of an incredible climate organization, Napa Schools for Climate Action. Our motto is “No School Should be a Silent Witness to Climate Injustice,” and we take that message seriously with every project we initiate. Similarly, I ask you to take the issue of climate pollution – which continues to increase global warming, setting into motion devastating feedback loops that are accelerating the change – with a sense of urgency, seriousness, and dedication.
The World Meteorological Organization has officially confirmed 2024 to be the warmest year on record, with it being 1.55 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. It is now critical more than ever before that we, as a community, shift our dependence on fossil fuels to clean energy. Our group champions this as a part of our Fossil-Free Future Project, which has the goal of reaching net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by or before the year 2030.
Napa's General Plan explicitly commits to achieving this goal, stating:
CCS 1-1 Implement immediate and sustained actions
in support of achieving net zero climate
pollutants from public and private operations
within the City by 2030.
Thus, in accordance with the City of Napa's General Plan, the RCAAP should clearly state the 2030 net zero goal and provide a roadmap to achieve it.
A first step in this transition away from the dirty energy system is implementing a city-wide prohibition on the building of new gas stations, and the expansion of existing ones. The RCAAP includes the ban as one of its action items. We call on the City of Napa to issue an unambiguous ban on new and expanded gas stations. Below is a list of recent local bans - including staff reports and media reports - in every city and town in the county - Calistoga, American Canyon, Napa, Yountville, and St. Helena.
· Calistoga 12/21/21- ordinance
· City of Calistoga approves gas station ban
· American Canyon 1/18/22 - ordinance (moratorium in March 2021) · American Canyon wrapping up ban on new gas stations · This town is the first in America to ban new gas stations – tide turning? · No-new-gas-station activists accelerate efforts in Napa, Sonoma counties · Napa 4/18/23 – staff report - urgency ordinance ban on new gas stations · Napa City Council moves forward with interim zoning, temporary ban on new gas stations
· Yountville 8/8/23 – ZDRB staff report and draft ordinance · Yountville 9/19/23 – Town Council staff report and ordinance · Yountville could be next to ban new gas stations · Yountville council approves ban on new gas stations · St. Helena 11/28/23 – Staff Report and resolution recommending initiation of Zoning Code amendment to ban new gas stations
· St. Helena set to ban new gas stations
Thus, as recommended in the RCAAP, new and expanded gas stations should be prohibited throughout the City of Napa.
My team and I would like to thank all of you for your efforts in raising awareness about the climate emergency and promoting the emergency-level action needed in response. We hope you take our message seriously. Your brave climate leadership is what will secure a safe future for all of Napa’s inhabitants.
Thank you so much,
Sophie Wassef (she/her/hers)
Justin-Siena High School, Senior,
Class of 2026
Napa Schools for Climate Action
Co-President
CITY COUNCIL
Administrative Report
September 2, 2025
HIDDEN GLEN
REMEDIATION
PROJECT
Hidden Glen
Remediation Project
Site Plan
LOT
APPROXIMATE “BUFFER ZONE”
ASSUMED TO BE THE AREA
BETWEEN THE WASTE CAP
AND ADJACENT RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTIES/LOTS
APPROXIMATE “BUFFER ZONE”
ASSUMED TO BE THE AREA
BETWEEN THE WASTE CAP
AND ADJACENT RESIDENTIAL
PROPERTIES/LOTS
Approx.
Limits of
Landfill
Cap
Hidden Glen
Remediation Project
Waste
Excavation and
Reconsolidation
Plan
Hidden Glen Remediation Project
Waste Reconsolidation Section
Hidden Glen
Remediation Project
CEQA
PROCESS
Draft IS/MND Prepared
IS/MND Circulated for
Public Review (July 10,
2025 to August 8, 2025)
Three Comment Letters
Received
Final IS/MND and
Response to Comments
Prepared
Hidden Glen
Remediation Project
FINANCIAL
IMPACTS
Estimated Construction
Cost = $1,200,000
Funding Sources
City Risk Fund Reserves
CalRecycle Grant for
Reimbursable Items up
to a Maximum of
$473,415
Hidden Glen
Remediation Project
COUNCIL
ACTION
REQUESTED
RECOMMENDED ACTION:
Adopt a resolution:
(1) adopting a Final Initial Study/Mitigated
Negative Declaration and a Mitigation
Monitoring and Reporting Program for the
Hidden Glen Remediation Project;
(2) authorizing staff to finalize construction
plans for the Hidden Glen Remediation
Project; and
(3) authorizing staff to advertise the Hidden
Glen Remediation Project for bids.