County Health Agency, and DTSC; the water supply transfer by OID, MID and SFPUC; and the Recology expansion requiring permits from both Brisbane and San Francisco. The approval of these actions would rely upon the analysis presented in this EIR, provided that the information related to such actions that is analyzed herein is sufficient and remains current.
Overall, the analysis of the Project Site development components identified above is intended to avoid duplicative reconsideration of basic policy considerations and to allow the City of Brisbane as Lead Agency to consider broad policy alternatives and program-wide mitigation measures at an early stage when it has greater flexibility to avoid or mitigate environmental impacts. By doing so, the program EIR for the Brisbane Baylands provides a starting point for subsequent planning, design, and environmental analysis of site-specific development and future implementation activities such as site remediation and transfer of water supply. The analysis of Project impacts under CEQA also can promote environmental sustainability by encouraging the incorporation of development standards and strategies into Project design, and by requiring implementation of mitigation measures that not only avoid or minimize significant impacts but also promote the responsible use of environmental resources. Additionally, the EIR analysis will allow for the quantification of various environmental factors that contribute to environmental sustainability, such as greenhouse gas emissions, water usage, energy usage and generation, and solid waste generation, thereby allowing the four Concept Plan scenarios and project alternatives to be compared according to their relative performance in regard to these various sustainability factors.
Page 3-77 Nelson-5 [See page 5-606 for the original comment] REVISE the text beginning in the final paragraph to read as follows.
Section 15168 of the CEQA Guidelines defines a program EIR as an EIR that may be prepared on a series of actions that can be characterized as one large project and are related either (1) geographically; (2) as logical parts in the chain of contemplated actions; (3) in connection with issuance of rules, regulations, plans, or other general criteria to govern the conduct of a continuing program; or (4) as individual activities carried out under the same authorizing statutory or regulatory authority and having generally similar environmental effects that can be mitigated in similar ways. Insofar as the components of the Project Site development, as approved, would include a plan and policy framework that would govern future development within a discrete geographic area within Brisbane (and an adjacent portion of San Francisco and other offsite infrastructure locations), such a program-level approach is considered appropriate. The specific impacts of all Ffuture projects that would fall within the purview of this program-level analysis would be evaluated in light of the program