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SAN LEANDRO GENERAL PLAN UPDATE FINAL EIR <br />CITY OF SAN LEANDRO <br />COMMENTS AND RESPONSES <br />5-18 AUGUST 2016 <br />TABLE 5-1 COMMENTS AND RESPONSE MATRIX <br />Comment # Date Comment Response <br />through the grading permit process and impose appropriate mitigation measures. If <br />the proposal involves a discretionary land use permit, the construction details will <br />be addressed through project- and site-specific environmental review. The Final EIR <br />for the Shoreline project (SCH #2013072011) is an example of project-specific <br />review, with potential mitigation measures targeted to potential construction <br />vibration impacts from the project. (See Mitigation Measures BIO-1B, NOISE -2, and <br />Mitigation Measure HYDRO-1A for removal of piles.) The City’s regulatory <br />requirements for proposed construction actions adequately addresses the potential <br />for risks from various construction techniques. No further discussion in the Draft EIR <br />is required. <br />B04-07 <br /> <br />Two lane roads through densely occupied residential areas leading to the Marina are <br />already full - it doesn't take a traffic engineer to know that when these are jammed with <br />construction traffic and increased sightseeing and residential traffic living on them will be <br />toxic. For the current EIR to say that only traffic on Doolittle Drive will be significantly <br />impacted is yet another example of how so much information is being ignored and <br />white-washed in this report as to be a clear violation of the trust of the San Leandro <br />residents. <br />The comment appears to request that the Draft General Plan Update EIR analyze <br />project-specific impacts of a particular development. This is not required or <br />appropriate. Most of the General Plan land use designations in the city are being <br />retained, including the Shoreline project area. As a program-level EIR under CEQA, <br />for the purposes of the Draft EIR on the San Leandro 2035 General Plan, the traffic <br />analysis assumes development of the Shoreline site based on the existing land use <br />designations, and includes these assumptions in its analysis and modeling. On a <br />General Plan program level, therefore, the Draft EIR properly identifies future traffic <br />conditions at Doolittle Drive as significant; no further discussion in the Draft EIR is <br />required. However, the City requires construction traffic management plans as part <br />of development applications that impact the public right of way. The City’s <br />Engineering/Transportation Department reviews these plans, and these plans may <br />also be reviewed as part of a project-level environmental review, as appropriate. <br />B04-08 <br /> <br />If the City, City Council, and the Planning Commission are not just asking for community <br />input just so they can say they did, then you need to listen and hear it. It is short-sighted <br />and wrong for decisions to be made based on input from developers and people who <br />stand to gain from development and don't even live in San Leandro.I have been a <br />resident of the Marina area for just over 10 years and have come to know and care <br />about San Leandro. In that time, I have seen the unoccupied, unmaintained, ugly, <br />commercial properties many with for sale signs on them for the entire 10 years. Some of <br />these are even walking distance to BART, and on the same thoroughfares the City wants <br />to develop. Why is the City not working harder on them, turning unused commercial <br />space into housing instead of gutting good neighborhoods where people already live and <br />open space at the shoreline which ALL San Leandrans can enjoy? If the development- <br />oriented factions want to remake San Leandro into something more like Emeryville, they <br />need to actually take a look at Emeryville and try walking or driving around there maybe <br />even try to live there. I worked in Emeryville in the 1980's and 2000's, and I know what it <br />looked like when the superfund steel mill and paint manufacturing plants were torn <br />down in the 50's-60's. Its Bay front was already ruined, there was nothing to do but build <br />it over with commercial monstrosities because the area was already polluted and nobody <br />could live or play there. Surrounding industrial buildings are now a refurbished mix of <br />The comment does not state a specific concern or question regarding the <br />sufficiency of the analysis contained in the Draft EIR, nor does the comment raise a <br />new environmental issue. No further response is required. However, the City <br />conducted extensive outreach for the proposed San Leandro 2035 General Plan and <br />Zoning Code amendments and has actively incorporated suggestions into the draft <br />plan and amendments, as appropriate.