2.
Response
to
Comments
2.9
Individual
Responses
to
Comments
from
Organizations
and
is
also
the
base
year
used
by
ABAG
and
MTC
for
the
regional
projections
set
forth
in
Plan
Bay
Area,
use
of
2010
demographic
information
as
the
existing
setting
for
Section
4.K,
Population
and
Housing
,
was
determined
by
the
City
to
be
appropriate.
The
City’s
obligation
under
Housing
Element
Law
(California
Government
Code
Article
10.6)
is
to
provide
adequate
opportunities,
including
an
adequate
inventory
of
developable
land
and
development
regulations
that
facilitate
the
production
of
housing
to
meet
the
City’s
“fair
share”
of
regional
housing
needs
for
all
economic
segments
of
the
community.
Housing
elements
are
required
to
be
updated
on
a
regular,
eight-year
cycle.
For
each
housing
element
cycle,
new
Regional
Housing
Needs
Assessment
figures
are
provided
to
the
City.
Brisbane
is
a
member
of
the
Association
of
Bay
Area
Governments
(ABAG),
and
ABAG
is
responsible
for
preparing
the
Regional
Housing
Needs
Assessment
for
the
nine-county
territory
that
it
represents.
Vacancy
rates
are
one
of
many
inputs
into
the
Regional
Housing
Needs
Allocation
(RHNA)
prepared
by
ABAG
to
define
Brisbane’s
fair
share
of
regional
housing
needs.
As
noted
in
the
first
paragraph
on
page
4.K-7,
employment
data
from
the
2010
Census
was
not
available
at
the
time
of
publication
of
the
Draft
EIR
(June
2013).
However,
because
2010
census
data
is
currently
available,
and
Projections
2013
have
been
approved
by
ABAG
as
part
of
Plan
Bay
Area,
all
references
to
the
older
Projections
2009
are
removed
from
the
Brisbane
Baylands
EIR.
The
characterization
of
Brisbane
as
“jobs
rich”
is
based
on
the
ratio
of
between
the
number
of
jobs
within
Brisbane
in
2010
(estimated
at
7,222)
and
the
number
of
Brisbane
residents
(4,282),
indicating
that
there
are
substantially
more
jobs
in
the
City
than
Brisbane
residents
in
the
work
force.
Employment
and
population
projections
used
in
the
Draft
EIR
were
prepared
by
ABAG
based
on
commonly
accepted
demographic
methodology.
None
of
the
analyses
provided
in
the
Draft
EIR
assume
that
most
residents
would
actually
live
in
close
proximity
to
their
place
of
work.
See
for
a
discussion
of
the
relationship
between
housing
and
employment
in
relation
to
commute
distances.
As
stated
on
page
4.H-8
of
the
Draft
EIR,
the
“mix
of
who
lives
in
the
community
and
who
works
in
the
community
and
the
extent
to
which
these
are
the
same
individuals
results
from
a
complex
set
of
interactions,
decision
factors,
opportunities,
and
constraints
that
determine
where
people
choose
to
live
and
work,
how
much
they
spend
for
housing,
and
their
travel
patterns.”
In
general,
the
greater
the
balance
of
jobs
and
housing
in
an
area
or
region,
the
greater
the
opportunity
for
workers
to
live
closer
to
their
place
of
employment
than
there
is
in
an
area
or
region
with
an
Brisbane
Baylands
Final
EIR
2.9.2-133
May
2015