3 1223 06835 0371 DRAFT SUPPLEMENT TO A FINAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT South of Market Redevelopment Plan Amendment San Francisco Redevelopment Agency • San Francisco Planning Department Planning Department Case No. 94.670E State Clearinghouse No. 1996092044 Draft FIR Publication Date: September 20, 1996 Draft FIR Public Comment Period: September 20 to November 4, 1996 Final FIR Certification Date: January 23, 1997 Draft Supplement to Final FIR Publication Date: August 28, 2004 Draft Supplement to Final FIR Public Hearing Date: September 30, 2004 Draft Supplement to Final FIR Public Comment Period: August 28 to October 12, 2004 DOCUMENTS DEPT AUG 3 0 2004 D SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY Written comments should be sent to: Lisa Zayas-Chien, Senior Planner REF San Francisco Redevelopment Agency 711.4097 770 Golden Gate Avenue So876fds San Francisco, CA 94102 San Francisco Redevelopment Agency 770 Golden Gate Avenue San Francisco, CA 94102 DATE: August 28, 2004 TO: Distribution List for the South ofMarket Redevelopment Plan Amendment FROM: Lisa Zayas-Chien, San Francisco Redevelopment Agency SUBJECT: Draft Supplement to the Final Environmental Impact Report for the South of Marked Redevelopment Plan Amendment (Planning Department Case No. 94.670E) This is the draft of the Supplement ("Draft Supplement") to the Final Environmental Impact Report ("SEIR") for the South of Market Redevelopment Plan Amendment. A public hearing before the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency ("Agency") Commission and Planning Commission will be scheduled during the 45-day public review period, which begins on August 28, 2004 and ends on October 12, 2004, to receive public comments on the adequacy and accuracy of the Draft Supplement. (For more information on the scheduling of this hearing, please contact Lisa Zayas-Chien at 749-2400). After the public hearing, the Agency and the Planning Department will prepare and publish a document titled "Summary of Comments and Responses to Comments" that will contain a summary of comments on the Draft SEIR and responses ("Comments and Responses"). It may also specify changes to this Draft Supplement. Those who testify at the hearing on the Draft Supplement will automatically receive a copy of the Comments and Responses document, along with notice of the date reserved for certification; others may receive such copies and notice upon specific request or by visiting our office. This Draft Supplement together with the Summary of Comments and Responses document will be considered by the Agency Commission and the Planning Commission at a public meeting and, if deemed adequate, certified as the Final Supplement. After certification, a one volume Final Supplement will be published, which will contain the Draft Supplement, the Comments and Responses document (including any changes to the text of the Draft Supplement which result from the public comment process), as well as a copy of the certification resolution. Some members of the public who receive the Draft Supplement and the Comments and Responses documents may not wish to also receive the Final Supplement (which will replicate and consolidate the Draft Supplement and the Comments and Responses). To address this preference and to avoid expending money and paper needlessly, the Final Supplement will only be mailed to those members of the public who specifically request the Final Supplement. (Public agencies on the distribution list will automatically receive a copy ofthe Final SEIR). Ifyou would like a copy ofthe Final Supplement, please fill out and mail the postcard provided inside the back cover of the Draft Supplement to the Agency no later than va'o weeks after certification of the SEIR. Any member ofthe public who does not request a Final Supplement by that time will not be mailed a copy. However, a copy will be available for review at the Agency. Thank you for your interest in this project. 3 1223 06835 0371 DRAFT SUPPLEMENT TO A FINAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT South of market Redevelopment Plan Amendment San Francisco Redevelopment Agency • San Francisco Planning Department Planning Department Case No. 94.670E State Clearinghouse No. 1996092044 Draft EIR Publication Date: September 20, 1996 Draft EIR Public Comment Period: September 20 to November 4, 1996 Final EIR Certification Date: January 23, 1997 Draft Supplement to Final EIR Publication Date: August 28, 2004 Draft Supplement to Final EIR Public Hearing Date: September 30, 2004 Draft Supplement to Final EIR Public Comment Period: August 28 to October 12, 2004 Written comments should be sent to: Lisa Zayas-Chien, Senior Planner San Francisco Redevelopment Agency 770 Golden Gate Avenue San Francisco, CA 94102 Digitized by the Internet Archive 2014 in https://archive.org/details/southofmarketre2820sanf_0 TABLE OF CONTENTS SUMMARY 1 INTRODUCTION I. 3 A. Project Overview 3 B. Project History 5 PROJECT DESCRIPTION II. 8 A. SOM Plan Amendment Proposal 8 B. 2002 Mid-Market and South of Market Redevelopment Area Transportation Study 8 C. Revised Plan Amendment 10 ANALYSIS OF POTENTIAL ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS III. 15 A. Planning Context and Land Use 15 B. Employment, Population and Housing 16 C. Transportation 26 D. Air Quality 33 E. Energy 36 F. Noise 36 G. Geology and Seismology 37 H. Hazards 38 I. Community Services 39 J. Cultural Resources 40 K. Visual Quality and Shadows 43 L. Effects Found Not To Be Significant 44 IV. MITIGATION MEASURES 47 A. Cultural Resources 47 V. OTHER CEQA CONSIDERATIONS 60 A. Unavoidable, Significant Environmental Effects 60 B. Significant and Irreversible Environmental Changes 60 VI. REPORT PREPARERS; ORGANIZATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS CONSULTED 62 .. VII. DISTRIBUTION LIST 63 APPENDICES Appendix A: South of Market Redevelopment Plan Supplement to a FEIR Transportation Analysis Appendix B: Comparison of Impacts Appendix C: Comparison of Mitigation Measures CASENO. 94.670E SouthofMarketRedevelopmentPlanAmendmentSupplement ^ August 28, 2004 toFEIR FIGURES Figure 1 1997 Project Area Boundary Expansion and Potential Development Scenario 9 Figure 2 2004 Proposed Project Area Boundary and Potential Development Scenario 12 TABLES Table 1 SOM Redevelopment Program Analyzed in the 2002 Transportation Study 10 Table 2 SOM Plan Amendment proposal and Revised Plan Amendment Redevelopment Program Comparison 13 Table 3 Project Area Population Profile, 2000 18 Table 4 Age Distribution, 2000 19 Table 5 Race and Ethnicity, 2000 19 Table 6 Household Size, 2000 21 Table 7 Employed Residents, 2000 22 Table 8 Project Area Income Profile, 2000 22 Table 9 Housing Units and Tenure, 2000 23 Table 10 Gross Monthly Rent, 2000 23 Table 1 1 LOS with Existing, Existing-Plus-Project, and Future Cumuladve Conditions in the FEIR 27 Table 12 LOS with Exisfing, Exisdng-Plus-Project, and Future Cumulafive Conditions in the 2002 Transportation Study 28 Table 13 LOS with Existing, Existing-Plus-Project, and Future Cumuladve Condidons in the FEIR and the 2002 Transportation Smdy 29 Table 14 Revised Plan Amendment LOS for Existing-Plus-Project and Future Cumulative Conditions 31 CASENO. 94.670E SouthofMarket Red toFEIR SUMMARY This document is a Supplement to the 1997 South of Market (SOM) Redevelopment Plan Amendment Final Environmental Impact Report (FEIR) and has been prepared by the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency (Agency) and the San Francisco Planning Department. This Supplement describes the project changes, and reviews environmental effects of the Revised Plan Amendment compared to the effects of the 1997 Plan Amendment described in the FEIR. It also determines the extent to which the Revised Plan Amendment would create significant new environmental effects not previously evaluated in the 1997 Plan Amendment FEIR, and the extent to which circumstances under which the project was evaluated in 1997 may have changed. Specifically, this Supplement reexamines impacts on: Planning Context and Land Use; Employment, Population and Housing; Transportation; Air Quality; Energy; Noise; Geology and Seismology; Hazards; Community Services; Cultural Resources; and Visual Quality and Shadows in the context of the Revised Plan Amendment. Analysis of Employment, Population and Housing, Transportation, Air Quality, and Cultural Resources is also presented in the context of new demographic information; traffic conditions; California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines; and mitigation measures, respectively. The analysis herein indicates that a Subsequent EIR is not required by CEQA Guidelines Sections 15162, 15163 and 15164, because a Supplement to an EIR (rather than a Subsequent EIR) is appropriate if only minor additions or changes are necessary to make a previous EIR adequately apply to the project as revised or in view of the change in the project circumstances. This document meets criteria for a Supplement to an EIR, under CEQA Guidelines Section 15163. This Supplement conforms to the CEQA, Public Resource Code Sections 21000 - 21178 and the State CEQA Guidelines. The Revised Plan Amendment differs from the 1997 SOM Redevelopment Plan Amendment (SOM Plan Amendment proposal) in the following ways: • The Revised Plan Amendment would extend the expiration date of the redevelopment plan from June 11, 2010 to June 11, 2020; • The Revised Plan Amendment would encompass a smaller Project Area; CASENO. 94.670E SouthofMarketRedevelopmentPlanAmendmentSupplement August 28. 2004 toPEER • The Revised Plan Amendment would reduce the number of residential units expected to be developed or rehabilitated by 1,425 units; and • The Revised Plan Amendment would reduce the amount of commercial and industrial space expected to be developed or rehabilitated by 50,272 square feet and 91,445 square feet, respectively. Overall, the Revised Plan Amendment would result in substantially less anticipated SOM development and redevelopment activity than what was proposed under the Plan Amendment proposal. Analysis in this Supplement to the FEIR shows that Planning Context and Land Use, Employment, Population, and Housing, Energy, Noise, Hazards, Community Services, Cultural Resources, and Visual Quality and Shadows impacts would remain less than significant or be mitigated to a less-than-significant level. Analysis in this Supplement also shows that Geology and Seismology impacts would remain significant and unavoidable. Cumulative air quality impacts would be reduced from a significant and unavoidable level under the SOM Plan Amendment proposal to a less-than-significant level under the Revised Plan Amendment. Cumulative transportation impacts, on the other hand, would change from being less-than-significant under the SOM Plan Amendment proposal to being significant and unavoidable under the Revised Plan Amendment. All mitigation measures identified by the FEIR would continue to apply to the Revised Plan Amendment. This Supplement refines and further defines mitigation measures for cultural resources impacts, which complement the mitigation measures previously discussed in the FEIR. The reader is referred to Section IV for a discussion of updated mitigation measures. In addition, Appendix C compares the differences (if any) between the mitigation measures presented in the FEIR and the additional or revised mitigation measures discussed in this Supplement. CASENO. 94.670E SouthofMarketRedevelopmentPlanAmendmentSupplement August28, 2004 toFEIR