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Draft Seir.Pdf UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY BERKELEY DAVIS IRVINE LOS ANGELES MERCED RIVERSIDE SAN DIEGO SAN FRANCISCO SANTA BARBARA SANTA CRUZ CAPITAL PROJECTS PHYSICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING 300 A & E BUILDING, # 1382 BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA 94720-1382 March 2013 DRAFT SUBSEQUENT EIR TO THE 2020 LONG RANGE DEVELOPMENT PLAN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT Project Title: Cal Aquatics Center Project Location: The approximately one-acre project site is located south of the Campus Park, across Bancroft Way from Edwards Stadium/ Goldman Field. The site address is 2222 Bancroft Way. The site is bounded to the north by Bancroft Way, to the west by Fulton Street, to the south by Durant Avenue, and to the east by the Tang Center. County: Alameda County, California Program EIR: UC Berkeley 2020 Long Range Development Plan EIR, certified by The Regents January 2005, SCH #2003082131; as updated and amended in July 2009 by LRDP Amendment #1 to address Climate Change. 1. INTRODUCTION & SUMMARY 1.1 INTRODUCTION The University of California, Berkeley, proposes to construct a new aquatics facility on an existing one acre, 230 parking space, University-owned surface parking lot with frontage on Bancroft Way and Durant Avenue, across Bancroft Way from Edwards Stadium/Goldman Field. The UC Berkeley aquatics programs have a shortage of water space for Intercollegiate Athletics and other users, including recreational swimmers, physical education students, and community partners; the proposed new Aquatics Center would free up water space for these other users. The facility would consist of three one-story buildings surrounding a 52-meter swimming pool with a dive tower. The main building, fronting Bancroft Way, would contain a team meeting/multi-purpose room, the main entry passage way, and the main pool mechanical rooms. The main entry would be centered between the Edwards Field concrete pylons across the street as a way of visually connecting back to the University and the athletics precinct. The main pool mechanical rooms, located within the east UC BERKELEY CAL AQUATICS CENTER 1 DRAFT SUBSEQUENT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT end of the building, would offer access for chlorine delivery from Bancroft Way. The locker room building would be sited along the west edge of the project site and contain locker rooms, showers and restrooms for the men's and women's water polo, swimming and diving teams. Public restroom would be attached to the north end of the building. The third building would be a pool storage building, sited along the entire 52-meter length of the pool on the east edge of the project site. A mechanical room for the dive spa would be located within the south end of the storage building mass. The dive tower would be 46 feet in height and would be placed at the south end of the pool. The dive tower would have 10- meter, 7.5-meter, five-meter, three-meter and one-meter diving platforms. The dive tower would also have a glass stairway enclosure to protect the divers from the weather as they ascend to the various platforms. Two 10-foot high springboard platforms on either side of the dive tower would accommodate one-meter and three-meter springboard platforms, respectively. A security handrail would extend above and around the top of the platform. The project would not include any permanent seating for spectators, as the extensive decking around the pool at the Aquatics Center would be used primarily for land-side training. However, in the rare instance when event seating is required, the deck areas would accommodate temporary bleachers for up to 500 spectators. For the rare evening competitive event, the project includes event lighting to meet the Pac 12 Network lighting requirements of a 70-footcandle average maintained over the main deck and pool. This would be achieved with LED fixtures mounted on 25-foot high poles, evenly spaced along the east and west sides of the pool. The lights would only be used at their full illumination for competitions, which would be held approximately four times per year. The existing mid-block passageway west of the Tang Center, allowing for pedestrians to traverse the block from Durant Avenue through the site to Bancroft Way, would be retained and enhanced. New light pole standards would be added to the mid-block passageway to keep it safely lit at night. For security, the facility would be enclosed with a minimum eight-foot high metal fence. A portion of the existing parking would be retained and reconfigured to allow 49 angled parking spaces along the west edge of the project site. Along Bancroft Way, new street trees and a new sidewalk would replace the existing site border trees and sidewalk. Planters and bicycle parking would also be added along the front of the facility. Please see Section 2, Project Description, for additional project information and project plans. In addition to design approval, a minor text amendment to the Long Range Development Plan is proposed to accommodate the proposed land use on the project site. In accordance with CEQA (Public Resources Code Section 21000 et seq.), and the University of California Procedures for Implementation of CEQA, this document was prepared to evaluate the Project as a whole, or to examine any changes to the circumstances under which the Project will be undertaken from that described and analyzed in the 2020 LRDP EIR. The analysis herein concludes that the Project is largely consistent with the UC Berkeley 2020 LRDP EIR, certified by The Regents in January 2005. However, the University has determined that a Subsequent EIR (hereafter, SEIR) is required, itself in the form of the additional environmental analysis contained herein, to update and augment the 2020 LRDP EIR to reflect the Project as proposed. The circumstance triggering the need for additional review is the potential for inconsistency with the City of Berkeley’s Southside Plan, a circumstance not identified as such or specifically analyzed in the 2020 LRDP EIR. 1.2 ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW AND SUMMARY OF CONCLUSIONS An environmental assessment has been prepared in accordance with CEQA, the CEQA Guidelines, and University of California Guidelines for the Implementation of CEQA, to determine the appropriate level of environmental review of the Project. UC BERKELEY CAL AQUATICS CENTER 2 DRAFT SUBSEQUENT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT The environmental analysis for the proposed Project is tiered from the 2020 LRDP Final EIR (State Clearinghouse [SCH] No. 2003082131) certified by the University of California Board of Regents (The Regents) on January, 2005. The LRDP Final EIR is a Program EIR and was prepared in accordance with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) (Public Resources Code, §21000, et seq., specifically, §21094), the CEQA Guidelines (Title 14, California Code of Regulations [CCR], §§15000 et seq.), and the University of California Procedures for the Implementation of CEQA. Section 15152 of the CEQA Guidelines states, “‘Tiering’ refers to using the analysis of general matters contained in a broader EIR (such as one prepared for a general plan or policy statement) with later EIRs and negative declarations on narrower projects; incorporating by reference the general discussions from the broader EIR; and concentrating the later EIR or negative declaration solely on issues specific to the later project.” CEQA and the CEQA Guidelines encourage the use of tiered environmental documents to eliminate repetitive discussions of the same issues. Therefore, this Subsequent EIR is hereby tiered from the LRDP Final EIR. The LRDP EIR document is available for review at lrdp.berkeley.edu. The LRDP Final EIR analyzes the direct and indirect impacts resulting from implementation of the development allocation on the campus through the year 2020. Measures to mitigate, to the extent feasible, the significant adverse LRDP project (direct and indirect) and cumulative impacts identified for that development are identified in the Final EIR. Section 15152(f) of the CEQA Guidelines instructs that when tiering, a later EIR or Negative Declaration shall be prepared only when, in the basis of an Initial Study, the later project may cause significant effects on the environment that were not adequately addressed in the prior EIR or Negative Declaration. Significant environmental effects are considered to have been “adequately addressed” if the lead agency determines that: (A) they have been mitigated or avoided as a result of the prior environmental impact report and findings adopted in connection with that prior environmental report; (B) they have been examined at a sufficient level of detail in the prior environmental impact report to enable those effects to be mitigated or avoided by site specific revisions, the imposition of conditions, or by other means in connection with the approval of the later project; or (C) they cannot be mitigated to avoid or substantially lessen the significant impacts despite the project proponent’s willingness to accept all feasible mitigation measures, and the only purpose of including analysis of such effects in another environmental impact report would be to put the agency in a position to adopt a statement of overriding considerations with respect to the effects. Following review of the proposed LRDP Project and the analysis presented in the LRDP Final EIR, it has been determined that the proposed Cal Aquatics Project is a “project” under CEQA that was not fully addressed in the Final EIR; therefore, additional environmental review is required. Accordingly, this Subsequent EIR has been prepared. In conjunction with certification of the LRDP Final EIR and approval of the LRDP, The Regents also adopted a Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program (MMRP). The MMRP ensures that campus continuing best practices (CBPs) and mitigation measures (MMs) that are the responsibility of the University of California are implemented in a timely manner. As individual projects, such as the proposed Project, are designed and constructed, the projects include features necessary to implement relevant CBPs and MMs.
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