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SAN LEANDRO GENERAL PLAN UPDATE FINAL EIR CITY OF SAN LEANDRO COMMENTS AND RESPONSES PLACEWORKS 5-7 TABLE 5-1 COMMENTS AND RESPONSE MATRIX Comment # Date Comment Response A03 7/13/2016 Saravana Suthanthira, Principal Transportation Planner, Alameda County Transportation Commission A03-01 Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) for the City of San Leandra's General Plan Update. The proposed Plan would replace the City's existing General Plan (updated in 2002). The proposed General Plan Update will guide development and conservation in the city through the 2035 buildout horizon of the General Plan. For most of San Leandro, the current land use designations established by the 2002 General Plan would remain unchanged. The proposed Plan removes the Office land use designation and includes the following new land use designations: 1) medium-high density residential, 2) Bay Fair Transit-Oriented Development, and 3) Industrial Transition. The majority of proposed changes consist of the redesignation of sites that were previously designated as Office or the application of the new land use designations to sites that were previously designated for other uses. Implementation of the proposed General Plan is projected to result in in 5,595 new housing units, 14,790 new residents, and 12,130 new jobs in 2035. The Alameda County Transportation Commission (Alameda CTC) respectfully submits the following comments: This comment is an introductory remark and does not state a specific concern or question regarding the sufficiency of the analysis contained in the Draft EIR, nor does the comment raise a new environmental issue. No further response is required. A03-02 • The document should reflect the following status update of some of Alameda CTC and the regional planning processes: o Alameda CTC adopted its latest Countywide Transportation Plan (CTP) in 2016, and projects listed in the CTP served as Alameda County's input to MTC's current update to Plan Bay Area 2040 (scheduled for adoption in Summer of 2017). o Alameda CTC has completed and approved several Countywide plans as of June 2016, including the Countywide Multimodal Arterial Plan, the Countywide Transit Plan, and the Countywide Goods Movement Plan. o In order to assess the existing circulation conditions in San Leandro, the DEIR gathered information on freeway and highway segments from Alameda CTC's 2014 Level of Service Monitoring; note that the most recent 2016 C14 Level of Service Monitoring has been completed and results are available on this webpage: http: //www.alamedactc.org/app pages/view/ 8091 The Notice of Preparation of the Draft EIR was issued on November 4, 2014. The actions mentioned by the commenter occurred or were approved after the Notice of Preparation was issued and therefore were not included as part of the baseline evaluation. However, the City appreciates the Alameda CTC providing this updated information. A03-03 • Alameda CTC notes that the DEIR has included a VMT assessment in line with the pending update of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) guidelines by the Office of Planning and Research (OPR). Alameda CTC has not set thresholds for a VMT assessment and is also closely monitoring the development of the CEQA guidelines update. The comment does not state a specific concern or question regarding the sufficiency of the analysis contained in the Draft EIR, nor does the comment raise a new environmental issue. No further response is required. A03-04 • The Alameda CTC's Congestion Management Program (CMP) does not establish significance performance analysis thresholds for designated roadways for the purposes of Land Use Analysis Program (LUAP). Please modify the language on pages 4.13-32 and 4.13-34 to reflect that. The text on pages 4.13-32 and 4.13-34 of the Draft EIR has been revised to clarify the source for the identified thresholds of significance. LOS D is the threshold used for CMP features, based on the City’s threshold and prior traffic studies in the city, as shown in Chapter 3 of this Final EIR. A03-05 • The Alameda CTC's CMP requires that the DEIR address potential impacts to not only Page 4.13-53 of the Draft EIR discussion of CMP facilities clarifies that potential