2.
Response
to
Comments
2.9
Individual
Responses
to
Comments
from
Organizations
and
turbulence
that
would
result
from
Project
Site
development
scenarios
on
windsurfing.
This
information
is
presented
on
pages
4.M-10
through
4.M-14
and
in
Impact
4.M-3
on
Draft
EIR
page
4.M-24.
See
also
through
34
for
discussion
of
the
threshold
of
significance
and
related
analyses
used
to
evaluate
impacts
of
proposed
development
on
windsurfing
resources.
The
City’s
responsibility
under
CEQA,
as
Lead
Agency,
is
to
identify
and
evaluate
the
environmental
effects
of
proposed
Baylands
development,
evaluate
whether
any
of
those
environmental
effects
would
be
“significant,”
provide
measures
to
mitigate
significant
environmental
effects,
and
identify
a
reasonable
range
of
alternatives
to
the
proposed
development.
The
City
will
consider
windsurfing
resources
as
part
of
the
City’s
planning
review
being
undertaken
for
the
Baylands.
A
description
of
the
windsurfing
use
patterns
and
unique
nature
of
the
Candlestick
Point
State
Recreation
Area
(CPSRA)
is
included
on
Draft
EIR
page
4.M-5.
See
the
discussion
of
the
wind
sailing
area
and
the
wind
effects
of
Project
Site
development
See
for
a
discussion
of
allowable
building
heights
within
the
Baylands.
See
Draft
EIR
Section
4.M,
Recreational
Resources,
and
see
also
the
discussion
of
impact
significance
thresholds
As
discussed
in
Draft
EIR
Chapter
1,
Introduction
,
and
Chapter
3,
Project
Description
,
the
Brisbane
Baylands
EIR
is
a
“Program
EIR”
that
analyzes
the
impacts
of
proposed
development
of
four
different
development
scenarios
at
an
equal
level
of
detail.
See
1
for
discussion
of
purposes
of
a
Program
EIR
and
use
of
program
levels
of
analysis.
Development
of
any
of
the
four
Project
Site
development
scenarios
would
change
the
“surface
roughness”
of
the
Baylands
site,
thereby
affecting
the
speed
and
turbulence
of
the
winds
in
the
lower
part
of
the
Atmospheric
Boundary
Layer.
Wind
tunnel
testing
is
able
to
reliably
identify
and
quantify
these
physical
changes
in
the
structure
of
the
wind.
The
analysis
of
impacts
on
windsurfing
resources
relied
on
physical
modeling
and
wind
tunnel
testing
of
each
of
the
four
development
scenarios
in
an
Atmospheric
Boundary
Layer
wind
tunnel,
as
described
in
detail
in
the
Draft
EIR
starting
on
page
4.M-10,
and
discussed
further
30,
and
Like
the
wind
testing
performed
for
the
Executive
Park
project
in
San
Francisco,
wind
testing
for
the
larger
area
of
Brisbane
Baylands
Final
EIR
2.9.4-5
May
2015