exceed the Title 24 energy efficiency standards effective as of the date of certification of this EIR by at least 20 percentall new buildings subject to the provisions of Brisbane Municipal Code Chapter 15.80 to achieve a LEED Gold rating, rather than the LEED Silver rating now required by the Municipal Code. In addition, all appliances installed as part of original building construction are to be ENERGY STAR rated or equivalent.
[See page 5-359 for the original comment] Mitigation Measure 4.P-2b is hereby revised to read as follows.
Mitigation Measure 4.P-2b: All street and parking lot lighting within the Project Site shall be energy efficient light emitting diode (LED) based lighting, until a more efficient technology for street and parking lot lighting acceptable to the City of Brisbane becomes commercially available, at which time all street and parking lot lighting shall be the most energy efficient technology that is commercially available for street and parking lot lighting and that is also acceptable to the City of Brisbane.
[See page 5-359 for the original comment] Since the DSP and DSP-V scenarios specify a minimum amount of renewable energy production to be provided, the intent of Mitigation Measure 4.P-2c was to ensure that an equivalent amount of renewable energy production be provided by the CPP and CPP-V scenarios. Because the operable performance standards in the mitigation measure are to provide an equivalent amount of renewable energy production, rather than the number of megawatts hours, Mitigation Measure 4.P-2c is revised to read as follows.
Mitigation Measure 4.P-2c: Should the CPP scenario be selected, Project Site development shall provide for an equivalent amount of onsite renewable energy generation as is proposed in the DSP scenario (currently estimated to be 42,000 to 45,000 megawatt hours annually). Should the CPP-V scenario be selected, Project Site development shall provide for an equivalent amount of onsite renewable energy generation as is proposed in the DSP scenario (currently estimated to be 42,000 to 45,000 megawatt hours annually) in addition to the renewable energy generation proposed as part of the Recology expansion.
[See page 5-359 for the original comment] Starting on page 4.P-2, the Draft EIR states, “it is estimated that 1,784.6 megawatt hours of electricity and 10,002.5 million British Thermal Units (Btu) of natural gas are used annually on the Baylands Project Site, exclusive of Recology’s operation. Recology has reported its 2010 baseline energy use as 6,300 megawatt hours of electricity and 400,000 cubic feet of natural gas (406 million Btu) annually (Arup, 2010).” The electrical consumption figure cited in the fifth paragraph of page 4.P-16 includes the electrical consumption of the Recology facility (1,784.6 mwh + 6,300 mwh = 8,084.6 mwh). The two statements in the Draft EIR are thus consistent.