2.
Response
to
Comments
2.9
Individual
Responses
to
Comments
from
Organizations
Definitions
for
the
terms
identified
in
Comment
are
as
follows.
Page
numbers
within
the
parentheses
refer
to
the
page
number
cited
in
Comment
Open
Space/Open
Area
(page
refers
to
a
land
use
designation
set
forth
in
the
proposed
Brisbane
Baylands
Specific
Plan
prepared
by
the
applicant
for
the
DSP
and
DSP-V
scenarios.
Existing
development
(page
,
includes
those
buildings,
structures,
and
uses
present
within
the
Baylands
during
the
2010
baseline
year.
New
development
(page
refers
to
the
buildings,
structures,
and
uses
proposed
under
each
of
the
scenarios,
including
the
total
amount
of
new
building
area.
Total
development
(page
is
not
a
term
used
on
the
page
cited
in
Comment
but
means
the
total
amount
of
building
area
proposed
under
each
of
the
scenarios.
Reasonably
feasible
(page
is
taken
from
State
CEQA
Guidelines
Section
15151.
Under
CEQA,
“feasible”
means
capable
of
being
accomplished
in
a
successful
manner
within
a
reasonable
period
of
time,
taking
into
account
economic,
environmental,
legal,
social,
and
technological
factors.
Developed
area
(page
2-2)
as
used
on
page
2-2
refers
to
the
building
area
within
the
Recology
site.
Public
sources
(page
as
used
on
page
refers
to
public
funding
mechanisms
such
as,
but
not
limited
to
highway
and
roadway
funds,
to
be
used
for
funding
of
Bi-County
transportation
improvements.
Private
sources
(page
as
used
on
page
refers
to
private
sector
funding
sources
for
Bi-County
transportation
improvements
such
as,
but
not
limited
to
development
fair
share
funding
contributions.
Baseline
height
(Chapter
4.A).
Although
Comment
requests
a
definition
of
this
term
as
it
is
used
in
Chapter
4.A,
the
term
“baseline
height”
is
not
used
in
the
Draft
EIR.
Urban
(page
4.A-1)
refers
to
development
of
residential
uses
at
a
density
greater
than
2
dwelling
units
per
acre,
commercial,
business
park,
commercial
entertainment
and
other
similar
uses,
along
with
associated
open
space
and
other
amenities.
As
used
in
the
Draft
EIR,
“urban”
encompasses
densities
that
may
commonly
be
considered
to
be
“suburban.”
Limited
(with
respects
to
quantity,
quality,
biodiversity)
(page
4.A-4)
refers
to
areas
of
sparse
vegetation
and
areas
where
natural
vegetation
is
broken
up
by
larger
areas
of
open
or
barren
ground.
Brisbane
Baylands
Final
EIR
2.9.3-3
May
2015