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7.r•:ge I of 2 Page 74 ATTACHMENT y PLG-Tom Passanisi From: Matt Leddy [mtleddy @sbcglobal.net] Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 11:54 AM To: PLG-Tom Passanisi Cc: Daniel Ponti; PLG-Jill Ekas Subject: A Few More NGP Questions Hi Tom: I'm sure you are looking forward to wrapping up the New General Plan and the end is finally in sight! I hope you won't mind if I ask a few more questions regarding the streetcar and the flooding problem in Friendly Acres/East Bayshore. First, the streetcar. I really appreciated the information Jill provided at the Planning Commission meeting in response to Dan Ponti's question. I found the language on page BE -113 in the "Circulation" section that explains why the various streetcar corridors were selected. As Jill pointed out, it is clearly stated that the General Plan includes the Seaport Corridor specifically to connect the ferry and employment centers to Downtown and the Caltrain station. My concern is that Master Response #1: Streetcar System in the FEIR actually documents very thoroughly that the City considers the streetcar line to be growth- inducing and that the General Plan includes the streetcar as a catalyst for growth: "The inclusion of the streetcar system is, thus, believed to encourage and facilitate the level of growth anticipated along key corridors'. "In this sense, the inclusion of the conceptual streetcar network is intended to encourage redevelopment and investment in the areas the streetcar network would serve when constructed". The streetcar system is being proposed "...as a catalyst for higher density mixed- use development along its alignment". Although the City's stated intent for the Seaport Corridor is connecting existing job centers to transit, the growth-inducing impacts of installing a new streetcar line directly adjacent to a 1436 acre site for which the City has accepted a mixed-use development application cannot be ignored in the environmental analysis for the new General Plan. The reality is that the streetcar line would facilitate mixed-use development at that site just like the City anticipates occurring along the other streetcar corridors. Since the City knows the streetcar is a catalyst for growth, is there a reason the EIR 9/30/2010