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COMBINED NOTICE of RELEASE AND AVAILABILITY OF THE DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT, AND NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGS ON THE GENENTECH CAMPUS MASTER PLAN UPDATE PROJECT
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of South San Francisco Planning Division has prepared a Draft Environmental Impact Report (Draft EIR) for the Genentech Campus Master Plan Update project. This Draft EIR is now available for public review and comment. The Draft EIR may be accessed on the City’s website at http://weblink.ssf.net under Planning Division/Environmental Reports (direct link here: http://weblink.ssf.net/weblink/Browse.aspx?dbid=0). Copies of the Draft EIR are available for review at the Orange Avenue Library at 804 W. Orange Avenue; the Grand Avenue Library at 306 Walnut Avenue; the Planning Division at 315 Maple Avenue; and at the City Clerk’s Office at 400 Grand Avenue. PROJECT LOCATION: The Genentech Campus (the Project site or Project Area) is located along the San Francisco Bay shoreline in the East of 101 Area of the City of South San Francisco. The Project site includes the approximately 162-acre Genentech Campus as analyzed in the prior 2007 Master EIR, as well approximately 45 acres of land added to the Campus pursuant to the City’s zoning text and map amendments of May 16, 2013, for a total Project Area of approximately 207 acres. The location of the Genentech Campus is shown on the attached Figure 1. PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The proposed Genentech Campus Master Plan Update (Project) provides an overall vision for future growth and development of the Genentech Campus. The Master Plan Update establishes a conceptual land use and development framework to accommodate an eventual buildout potential of up to 9 million square feet of building space at the Campus, or an increase of approximately 4.3 million net square feet. The Master Plan Update provides flexibility in implementation of this buildout potential to enable Genentech to adapt to changing conditions and new medical and scientific discoveries over time. For purposes of the EIR analysis, the EIR Project Description presents one realistic and potential vision for how the Master Plan Update’s flexible framework might ultimately be developed (see Figure 2) including a forecast growth of approximately 1.6 million square feet of new lab space, approximately 2.4 million square feet of net new office space, and approximately 0.3 million square feet of various types of employee amenity spaces. The Project Description also assumes a net retention of nearly 1.3 million square feet of manufacturing, warehouse and distribution building space that is currently within the Project Area. ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS: The Draft EIR identifies that the Project would result in significant and unavoidable environmental effects related to criteria air pollutant emissions, construction-period noise, and traffic impacts at local intersections, freeway ramps and freeway segments. All other potentially significant environmental effects of the Project would be reduced to less than significant levels through implementation of either existing regulatory requirements or additional mitigation measures as recommended in the Draft EIR. PUBLIC REVIEW PERIOD: The City of South San Francisco is soliciting comments regarding the analysis contained in the Draft EIR. All comments must be received by the City of South San Francisco Planning Division no later than 5:00 p.m. on December 23, 2019. Written comments on the Draft EIR may be sent via U.S. mail and addressed to: Tony Rozzi, Principal Planner Planning Division, City of South San Francisco P.O. Box 711 South San Francisco, CA 94083 Comments may also be sent via email to: [email protected] Public Review Schedule:
Public Release of Draft EIR November 8, 2019
Planning Commission Public Review Hearing South San Francisco Municipal Services Bldg. 33 Arroyo Drive South San Francisco, CA 94080
Thursday, December 19, 2019 at 7:00 p.m.
45 Day Review Period End Date December 23, 2019 For additional information please contact Tony Rozzi, Principle Planner at (650) 650-877-8535 /s/Sailesh Mehra Secretary to the Planning Commission City of South San Francisco Dated: 11/8/2019