2.
Response
to
Comments
2.10
Individual
Responses
to
Comments
from
Individuals
As
stated
above,
while
the
General
Plan
anticipates
a
mix
of
commercial
uses
as
a
primary
use
of
the
Baylands,
the
Trade
Commercial
designation
does,
in
fact,
include
certain
industrial
uses
among
the
list
of
permitted
uses.
In
addition,
the
General
Plan
EIR
uses
traffic
generation
from
industrial
development
to
set
the
upper
end
of
allowable
development
intensity
within
the
Baylands.
As
noted
in
Section
4.I,
Land
Use
and
Planning
Policy,
of
the
Draft
EIR,
the
density/
intensity
of
the
buildout
for
the
Baylands
is
described
in
the
General
Plan
in
terms
of
the
maximum
impact
of
development,
particularly
traffic
impacts.
As
stated
in
Section
4.I
of
the
Draft
EIR,
the
“anticipated
buildout
of
the
Baylands
Subarea
is
described
in
the
EIR
prepared
for
the
1994
General
Plan.
As
described
in
the
EIR,
the
General
Plan
near-term
(10-year)
development
was
to
consist
of
a
total
of
650,000
square
feet
of
new
commercial
development,
with
an
increase
of
between
1.0
million
square
feet
and
4.2
million
square
feet
at
ultimate
buildout,
depending
on
the
mix
of
land
uses.
The
General
Plan
EIR
calculated
the
hypothetical
carrying
capacity
of
the
Baylands
Subarea
by
defining
the
range
of
square
footage
of
development
that
“could
be
accommodated
without
producing
more
traffic
th
an
could
reasonably
be
mitigated
to
within
the
City’s
level
-of-
service
standard
LOS
‘D.’
The
low
end
of
the
range
of
square
footage,
one
million
square
feet,
related
to
high
trip
generating
land
use,
such
as
certain
types
of
retail,
and
the
high
end,
4.2
million
square
feet
to
a
low
trip-generating
land
use
such
as
warehouse-type
commercial.
The
actual
trip
generation
and
corresponding
allowable
square
footage
of
development
would
lie
somewhere
between
the
hypothetical
‘high’
and
‘low’
and
would
reflect
a
mix
of
land
use
on
the
Baylands,
as
reflected
in
all
three
of
the
hypothetical
long-
term
land
use
alternatives.”
Utilizing
this
direction
from
the
General
Plan
and
General
Plan
EIR,
the
Baylands
Draft
EIR
calculated
the
theoretical
buildout
permitted
by
the
General
Plan
to
be:
Baylands
Subarea:
56,505
square
feet
of
existing
retail
development
600,000
square
feet
of
new
retail
development
400,000
square
feet
of
new
office
development
189,331
square
feet
of
existing
industrial
development
200,000
square
feet
of
new
laboratory
and
industrial
development
1,056,505
total
square
feet
of
commercial/office
development
389,331
total
square
feet
of
industrial
development
1,445,836
total
square
feet
of
total
development
5
5
This
buildout
has
a
trip
generation
equivalent
to
the
1.0
million
square
feet
of
retail
use
and
4.2
million
square
feet
of
industrial
use
described
in
the
General
Plan
EIR
as
the
basis
for
determining
General
Plan
buildout.
Brisbane
Baylands
Final
EIR
2.10.19-21
May
2015
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