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File Number: 18-064 <br />The FEIR, in combination with the DEIR, constitute the Final Environmental Impact Report. <br />Certification of the Final EIR must occur before the City Council may adopt the Bay Fair TOD <br />Specific Plan. <br />Potential Development Capacity and DEIR Project Description <br />The proposed project is adoption of the Bay Fair Transit Oriented Development (TOD) Specific <br />Plan. The proposed Specific Plan includes policies and development standards to guide future <br />development in the Specific Plan Area within the City of San Leandro. The proposed Specific <br />Plan is intended to implement the guidance provided in the City’s 2035 General Plan. The 2035 <br />General Plan envisions Bay Fair as a dynamic, walkable, transit-oriented area with a mix of uses <br />- including retail, office, higher density housing, and open space - that leverage their prime <br />location near BART. <br />A reasonable and conservative estimate of buildout associated with the General Plan through <br />2035 would include development of 2,540 housing units and 300,000 square feet of office space, <br />as well as the removal of an estimated 161,000 square feet of retail space. <br />Table 1 on Page 5 of the DEIR (see Exhibit A of the City Council Resolution Certifying the Plan <br />EIR) provides a Summary of Environmental Impacts, Mitigation Measures, and Residual Impacts. <br />The following is a brief summary of each environmental issue discussed in the DEIR. <br />Aesthetics <br />The DEIR analyzes how the implementation of the Specific Plan would affect the visual <br />environment. Overall, the impacts of the Plan were found to be less than significant without <br />mitigation. <br />Air Quality <br />The DEIR analyzes how implementation of the Specific Plan would create potential local and <br />regional air quality impacts. Per Impact AQ-1 in Table 1 in the DEIR, buildout of the proposed <br />Specific Plan would result in the temporary generation of air pollutants during construction, which <br />would affect local air quality. Compliance with the BAAQMD Basic Construction Mitigation <br />Measures would require future projects within the Specific Plan Area to implement measures to <br />reduce construction emissions. Impacts would be significant but mitigable. All other impacts of <br />the Plan were found to be less than significant without mitigation. <br />Biological Resources <br />Implementation of the Specific Plan could impact existing biological resources, including animal <br />and plant species, vegetation, and federally protected wetlands. These impacts would be less <br />than significant but mitigable through mitigation measures, when applicable, including biological <br />resources screening and assessment; special status plant species surveys, mitigation, and <br />restoration/monitoring; endangered/threatened species habitat assessments and protocol <br />surveys; a worker environmental awareness program; jurisdictional delineations, and native <br />amphibian protection. <br />Cultural Resources <br />None of the historic resources listed in the City’s 2035 General Plan are in the Specific Plan <br />Area. However, many of the existing developments in the Plan Area date back to the 1950s. The <br />impacts on cultural, tribal cultural and paleontological resources would be less than significant <br />Page 8 City of San Leandro Printed on 2/13/2018 <br />26