2.
Response
to
Comments
2.10
Individual
Responses
to
Comments
from
Individuals
change
the
conclusions
regarding
th
e
Project’s
impacts
to
historic
resources
or
hazardous
materials
in
the
Draft
EIR.
Pursuant
to
the
provisions
of
CEQA,
the
Draft
EIR
addresses
the
physical
environmental
effects
that
would
result
from
implementation
of
proposed
Baylands
development,
one
component
of
which
is
formal
landfill
closure
under
the
regulatory
authority
of
the
RWQCB.
Any
reasons
as
to
why
formal
landfill
closure
has
not
occurred
to
date
are
irrelevant
to
analysis
of
the
impacts
of
proposed
Project
Site
development.
See
for
discussion
regarding
the
adequacy
of
site
characterization
studies
for
use
in
the
Draft
EIR.
When
conducting
investigations
for
contaminated
sites,
the
focus
is
on
identifying
constituents
of
concern
in
the
media,
along
with
their
concentrations.
Because
the
responsible
party
(landowner)
must
provide
for
site
remediation
regardless
of
past
users
of
the
site,
comprehensively
identifying
those
past
users
is
unnecessary.
A
large,
industrial
brick
building
once
existed
at
55
Industrial
Way
known
as
the
Moore
Building.
This
building
existed
for
many
years,
but
was
demolished
in
1997
4
,
and
the
property
is
now
an
empty
lot.
Whether
this
was
the
‘bone
rendering
facility’
indicated
by
the
comment
is
unknown;
however,
there
is
another
industrial
warehouse
at
294
Industrial
Way
that
was
once
called
the
‘bone
storage
house,’
and
may
have
been
associated
with
the
nearby
Cow
Palace.
This
warehouse
currently
serves
as
a
moving
and
storage
company,
and
any
uses
as
a
bone
storage
and/or
bone
rendering
facility
have
since
ceased.
The
buildings
on
Industrial
Way
are
corrugated
metal
and
concrete
warehouses,
most
of
them
are
less
than
50
years
old,
and
none
of
them
are
considered
historical
resources.
While
these
former
uses
on
the
Baylands
Project
Site
are
a
part
of
the
site’s
past,
this
information
does
not
change
the
conclusions
or
analysis
regarding
impacts
to
historic
resources
in
the
Draft
EIR.
Draft
EIR
pages
4.D-3
and
4
note
that
no
previously
identified
archaeological
resources
have
been
recorded
within
the
Baylands
Project
Site,
and
a
records
search
of
the
Native
American
Heritage
Commission’s
(NAHC’s)
Sacred
Lands
Files
did
not
indicate
the
presence
of
Native
American
cultural
resources
on
or
near
the
Baylands
Project
Site.
Except
for
Icehouse
Hill,
the
Baylands
Project
Site
was
previously
in
Bay
waters
or
tidal
wetlands
during
the
prehistoric
period
up
to
the
early
20
th
century.
Because
the
vast
majority
of
the
site
was
previously
submerged,
and
is
now
covered
with
modern
artificial
fill,
the
potential
to
contain
any
unrecorded
prehistoric
or
Spanish
Mission-period
archaeological
deposits
is
4
See
Draft
EIR
Appendix
C
–
Brisbane
Baylands
Specific
Plan,
Chapter
4,
Land
Use
and
Community
Design,
February
2011.
Brisbane
Baylands
Final
EIR
2.10.19-5
May
2015