2.
Response
to
Comments
2.7
Individual
Responses
to
Comments
from
Special
Districts
2.7.2
Modesto
Irrigation
District
The
Notice
of
Preparation
for
the
Brisbane
Baylands
Draft
EIR
was
sent
to
MID
in
November
2012
and
the
Draft
EIR
was
sent
in
June
2013.
Prior
to
issuing
the
NOP,
the
City
of
Brisbane
and
the
applicant
for
the
DSP
and
DSP-V
development
scenarios
met
with
senior
MID
management
staff
in
person
and
by
phone
to
discuss
a
potential
water
transfer
agreement,
including
the
potential
for
transferring
water
supply
from
MID,
as
well
as
the
transfer
of
water
from
OID
through
the
MID
system.
As
discussed
1,
this
EIR
provides
program-level
evaluation
of
Project
site
development
including
the
proposed
OID
water
transfer
to
Brisbane.
The
project
description
identifies
several
agreements
that
will
be
required
to
implement
the
proposed
water
transfer,
including
agreements
involving
MID
and
OID
and
MID
and
the
SFPUC.
None
of
these
agreements
have
been
developed
yet.
As
discussed
1,
project-level
CEQA
evaluation
of
the
proposed
OID
water
transfer
would
be
conducted,
as
appropriate,
should
a
specific
development
scenario
be
selected
and
appropriate
revisions
are
approved
for
the
Brisbane
General
Plan
to
address
development
of
the
selected
scenario.
Such
project-level
analysis
of
the
proposed
OID
water
transfer
would
be
undertaken
prior
to
approval
of
any
site-specific
development
projects
within
the
Brisbane
Baylands.
While
the
Brisbane
Baylands
Draft
EIR
does,
in
fact,
evaluate
the
potential
effects
of
the
proposed
water
transfer
at
a
program
level
and
reference
the
history
of
OID
water
transfers
that
have
involved
MID
in
the
past,
subsequent
project-level
CEQA
review
will
re-evaluate
environmental
effects
of
the
proposed
water
transfer
in
greater
detail
(see
1
for
discussion
of
the
programmatic
nature
of
the
Brisbane
Baylands
EIR
and
Master
for
discussion
of
subsequent
environmental
review
of
the
proposed
water
supply
agreement).
Once
the
specific
land
use
scenario
for
which
water
supply
is
needed
has
been
selected,
it
will
be
appropriate
for
Brisbane
to
develop
and
evaluate
the
potential
agreements
with
each
of
the
parties,
including
MID,
involved
in
implementing
the
OID
water
transfer
to
Brisbane.
Please
see
1
for
a
discussion
of
why
the
program
level
of
analysis
is
appropriate
at
this
stage
of
analysis
and
what
project-level
CEQA
review
will
be
conducted
in
the
future,
including
analysis
for
the
proposed
water
transfer.
Please
also
see
Master
Response
29
for
discussion
of
the
environmental
effects
of
the
proposed
OID
transfer
discussed
in
the
Draft
EIR
and
for
an
outline
of
the
issues
to
be
re-
evaluated
in
greater
detail
in
a
subsequent,
project-level
CEQA
document
on
the
proposed
water
transfer.
Brisbane
Baylands
Final
EIR
2.7.2-1
May
2015