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'IS 4. ESA Team Qualifications
<br /> TABLE 4 -2: SUMMARY OF RELEVANT ESA TEAM EXPERIENCE (Continued)
<br /> ' Relevant Highlights Protect
<br /> ESA (cont.)
<br /> v Climate change effects, Brisbane Baylands Phase I Specific Plan EIR (cont.)
<br /> including sea level rise and the Union Pacific/Caltrain railroad corridor, and the 118 acres of the Brisbane Lagoon. The upland
<br /> integrated into planning area is a former landfill site, most of which is currently undeveloped. Overall, the Specific Plan would
<br /> process allow for up to 5 million square feet of commercial retail, office, hotel, and light industrial development on
<br /> 175 acres (not including 54 acres of roadway rights -of -way) and would preserve 99 acres of upland open
<br /> space and parkland and 118 acres of open water within the Brisbane Lagoon. If approved, the Specific
<br /> Plan would initiate one of the most significant development projects in San Mateo County in the coming
<br /> decade and beyond__
<br /> GHG analysis as part of Eastern Neighborhoods Rezoning EIR
<br /> CEQA 1 In connection with the EIR for a rezoning proposal fora large area of eastern San Francisco. ESA assisted
<br /> ✓ San Francisco's first the City of San Francisco in developing an analysis methodology for greenhouse Gas Emissions (GHGs).
<br /> standardized language ESA also developed the City's first standardized language regarding GHG emissions for inclusion in CEQA
<br /> regarding GHG documents in San Francisco. This work was undertaken in connection with the EIR for the Eastern
<br /> emissions Neighborhoods Rezoning project, which proposed zoning changes and General Plan amendments for an
<br /> approximately 2,200 -acre area covering four neighborhoods: the Mission, Showplace Square/Potrero Hill,
<br /> ✓ Analysis calculates 1 the Central Waterfront, and the eastem portion of the South of Market ( "East SoMa"). The current population
<br /> emissions associated of these areas is about 67,000, projected to increase to maximum of about 87,000. The proposal is intended
<br /> with multiple I to encourage new housing while preserving sufficient land for light industrial and service industry (referred to
<br /> alternatives i collectively as "Production, Disuibution, and Repair," or "PDR," uses), and will also include the adoption of
<br /> area plans for each neighborhood for inclusion in the General Plan. The analysis calculates GHG emissions
<br /> associated with several program alternatives.
<br /> ✓ Sustainability planning _ Pacific Union College Angwin Eco- Village EIR
<br /> for a community _; ,?' ESA is currently preparing an EIR for a proposed "eco- village" in the
<br /> ✓ Transportation • y; unincorporated community of Angwin in Napa County, on land currently
<br /> sustainable features, including but not limited to,
<br /> owned by the Pacific Union proposes a number of
<br /> College. The project ro
<br /> alternatives
<br /> fficie ccentral to mi and energy _ ,- 1 Y 9 it 1 l P
<br /> efficiency l` � orris incorporation of a range of
<br /> sustainable plan r ;fri `^ -. transportation alternatives, 100 percent reuse of wastewater for irrigation
<br /> and landscaping, maximizing energy efficiency in building design and solar
<br /> ✓ Water efficiency technologies, and operation of an agricultural conservancy that would be generate locally farmed and
<br /> integrated into planning r grown organic food. The project includes 380 units of new housing, and replacement of 100 existing
<br /> housing units with an equal number of units. The project would also include 71,500 square feet of
<br /> commercial uses, including local- serving retail, social /community, professional and lodging (replacing
<br /> approximately 66,000 square feet of existing commercial use), 70 acres of permanently preserved
<br /> agricultural land, and a variety of supporting recreation, transportation and infrastructure improvements.
<br /> ✓ Alternative energy ,y+..A;;;;� Sonoma County Water Agency Sustainability Management
<br /> generation using biogas - -, System
<br /> ✓ Waste minimization ., ,$ n - In this multifaceted environmental initiative by the Sonoma County Water
<br /> 1 ) �..., Agency, ESA's role was to examine the operational and economic
<br /> ✓ Organics management
<br /> _.. )d requirements for the Agency to generate a portion of its energy by
<br /> anaerobically digesting organic wastes produced throughout the County.
<br /> ESA used its knowledge of wastes and waste processing, and also reviewed available literature and
<br /> heard from experts, to study and compare several methods of obtaining and processing these wastes to
<br /> produce power. Two basic approaches to obtaining feedstocks were considered: using source - separated
<br /> organics, and separating organics from the municipal solid waste stream in a material recovery facility.
<br /> ESA found that from an engineering and technical standpoint, the process is entirely feasible, and the
<br /> amount of available energy is substantial. Indeed, exactly this process is already taking place in many
<br /> parts of Europe and in two locations in Canada.
<br /> However for Sonoma County and the North Bay region, ESA found significant institutional and economic
<br /> barriers. Economically, the costs of obtaining, preparing and processing organics would drive the net
<br /> cost of electric power well above the cost currently available from the local utility. Institutionally, •
<br /> arrangements to obtain a consistent supply of organics such as yard trimmings and food scraps would be
<br /> cumbersome at best, probably requiring several years to ramp up the supply to a full -scale level. This
<br /> problem is exacerbated by the widespread geographic extent of organic materials in Sonoma County. To
<br /> support a central energy - generating plant, much of the organic feedstock would need to be hauled a
<br /> considerable distance by truck, with associated energy and dollar costs.
<br /> ✓ Citywide conservation City of Mountlake Terrace Conservation /Sustainability Strategy
<br /> and sustainability plan ESA worked with the City of Mountlake Terrace to develop a Conservation/Sustainability Strategy that
<br /> ✓ Public outreach identifies tools that the City can use to complement its existing policies, plans, and programs to conserve
<br /> component resources and promote sustainability. The Citys Comprehensive Plan and recently updated critical area
<br /> regulations, as well as discussions internally among City staff, provide the basis for the comprehensive list of
<br /> tools to be discussed in the strategy. The Conservation/Sustainability Strategy identified and prioritized
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<br /> City of Pleasanton Climate Action Plan 4 -15
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