2.
Response
to
Comments
2.9
Individual
Responses
to
Comments
from
Organizations
The
final
paragraph
on
page
4.P-2
is
hereby
revised
to
read
as
follows:
Specific
historical
energy
usage
was
not
available
for
all
existing
uses
on
the
Project
Site.
To
provide
an
estimate
of
this
usage,
the
Bay
Area
Air
Quality
Management
District
(BAAQMD)
greenhouse
gas
model
BGM
(Version
1.1.9
Beta)
was
used
to
estimate
annual
electricity
and
natural
gas
usage
based
on
industrial
land
uses
at
the
Project
Site
and
their
square
footage.
Based
on
this
model,
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
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).
Thus,
total
current
energy
usage
within
the
Baylands
is
estimated
to
be
8,084.6
megawatt
hours
of
electricity
and
10,408.5
million
British
Thermal
Units
(Btu)
of
natural
gas.
The
fifth
paragraph
on
page
4.P-16
is
hereby
revised
to
read
as
follows:
As
previously
noted,
existing
electrical
consumption
within
the
Project
Site
is
8,084.6
megawatt
hours,
including
the
Recology
facility.
Thus,
under
all
Project
Site
development
scenarios,
even
with
proposed
onsite
renewable
energy
generation,
increases
in
electrical
consumption
would
be
substantial.
The
specific
thresholds
used
to
analyze
energy
in
the
Draft
EIR
are
based
on
CEQA
Guidelines
Appendix
F,
and
focus
on
avoiding
or
reducing
inefficient,
wasteful,
and
unnecessary
consumption
of
energy.
The
extent
to
which
renewable
energy
production
can
be
maximized
within
the
Baylands
is
a
planning,
rather
than
CEQA
issue,
and
will
be
considered
as
part
of
the
City
planning
review
and
decisionmaking
for
the
Baylands.
Because
Recology’s
renewable
energy
production
is
a
by-product
of
their
primary
waste
processing
operations,
it
is
unreasonable
to
anticipate
that
office,
commercial,
or
residential
(DSP,
DSP-V
scenarios)
could
duplicate
Recology’s
level
of
renewable
energy
production.
The
federal,
state,
and
local
regulations
summarized
in
Draft
EIR
Section
4.P,
Energy
Resources
,
do
not
necessarily
apply
to
specific
impacts;
these
regulations
generally
apply
to
Project
site
development
as
a
whole.
While
the
Draft
EIR
refers
to
the
regulations
at
times
as
part
of
the
impact
analysis
to
indicate
how
compliance
with
specific
regulations
would
avoid
or
reduce
impacts,
all
applicable
regulations
and
standards
apply
to
Project
Site
development.
Section
4.P.3,
Regulatory
Setting
,
is
included
in
Draft
EIR
Section
4.P
specifically
to
be
used
as
a
reference
when
reading
the
impact
analyses.
The
rules
and
regulations
mentioned
in
the
impact
Brisbane
Baylands
Final
EIR
2.9.3-123
May
2015