UCSF Mount Zion Garage
EIR Scoping
November 18, 2010
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UCSF Mount Zion
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UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center
-- only comprehensive cancer center in Northern California,
designated by the National Cancer Institute, part of the National
Institutes of Health
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Women’s Health Center
-- only nationally designated Center of Excellence in Women’s
Health in Northern California
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Dialysis Center, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, Pain
Management Center, Sleep Disorders Center, and more
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As a world-renowned academic medical center, UCSF attracts
patients from within San Francisco, the Bay Area, and beyond
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Many patients are seriously ill and require highly-specialized care
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Outpatient visits at Mount Zion: about 285,000 annually, or
1,140/day
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Inpatient beds at Mount Zion: 90
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Over 1,300 employees
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UCSF Parking Supply
• Parking supply in Mount Zion area is extremely
constrained
• UCSF controls limited supply of about 218 parking
spaces for over 1,300 employees at Mount Zion:
- 150 spaces at 1701 Divisadero
- 21 spaces at Bush/Scott parking lot
- 47 spaces (approx) at 2325 Post (space is back
on line mid-December, closed during Osher
construction)
• Available parking spaces are prioritized for essential
healthcare providers
• In addition, provision to park 137 vehicles at 1635
Divisadero are available to UCSF through an easement
and options agreement for space occupied at 2330 Post
St.
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UCSF Parking Supply
• Currently UCSF has no supply of parking spaces for
patients or visitors, and relies on other neighborhood
garages but has no control over those spaces.
• Starting 1/1/11, approximately 50 spaces in the 1701 Div.
garage will be converted to patient/visitor use due to
increased patient demand with clinic moves to Mt. Zion.
Displaced employees will shift temporarily to other
locations.
• UCSF’s patients and visitors park in neighborhood garages
(they are directed to 1635 Divisadero garage) and on the
street
• Nearby parking facilities are at or near capacity during
peak times
• UCSF cannot rely on neighborhood parking facilities being
available in the indefinite future
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UCSF Parking Demand
• UCSF demand for parking exceeds its supply and is
growing
• UCSF existing demand by both patients/visitors and
employees is estimated at over 700
• Parking demand will increase due to:
- new Osher Building (to open Dec. 2010)
- other departmental moves to Mount Zion
- potentially more intensive uses backfilling
inpatient cancer beds moving to Mission Bay
• UCSF has aggressive Transportation Demand
Management (TDM) programs to direct employees
away from driving
• About 65% of Mount Zion-based employees take
alternative forms of transportation such as vanpools,
carpools, shuttles, bicycles, and walking
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UCSF Parking Demand
Patients and visitors need parking because:
• 68% of inpatients and 45% of outpatients at Mount Zion
come from outside San Francisco. Many of them have
serious illnesses.
• Alternative transportation, such as public transit,
bicycling, or walking, are not always feasible for
patients due to:
- compromised health
- mobility problems
- travel distance
• Children receiving primary care at Mount Zion are
taken by parents who may need to drive
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UCSF Parking Demand
Essential healthcare providers need parking because:
• Additional 97 (approx.) essential healthcare providers
moving to Mount Zion (added population = 212)
• Essential healthcare providers required to provide
healthcare on 24-hr/7-day basis.
• Many essential healthcare providers have
responsibilities at multiple medical centers including the
VA and SFGH.
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Benefits to Community
• Garage will provide additional parking in
neighborhood
• Garage will help alleviate pressure on
neighborhood street parking
• Transportation Demand Management
office in garage will promote use of
alternative forms of transportation for
UCSF employees, patients, visitors and
general public (ridesharing, pre-tax transit,
Clipper Card, BART tickets)
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Project Site – 2420 Sutter St.
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Project Description
Proposed garage at 2420 Sutter Street:
• About 228 spaces
• 6 levels above ground; 1 level below ground
• 75% for patient and visitor parking, and 25% for
essential healthcare providers
• New garage entrance/exit on Sutter Street
• Underground connection to garage at 1701 Divisadero
Street
• Transportation Demand Management office on ground
floor
• Bicycle and Motorcycle Parking
• SF Center for Psychoanalysis is no longer a part of the
project
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Proposed Design
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SUTTER ST. ELEVATION
California Environmental
Quality Act
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Environmental Review
CEQA = California Environmental Quality Act
University of California is “Lead Agency”
• Responsible for carrying out project
• Responsible for preparing CEQA document
Purposes of CEQA
• Inform governmental decision-makers and the public
about potential significant environmental effects of
proposed activities
• Identify ways to avoid or reduce significant impacts
• Prevent significant impacts by requiring feasible
mitigation measures or alternatives
CEQA documents are informational, not an approval
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Environmental Review
Initial Study
• Preliminary evaluation of project to determine
under which environmental topics project may
result in significant impacts requiring further
study in EIR
• Initial Study published November 22, 2010
• 30-day public comment period through
December 21, 2010
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Environmental Review
EIR
• Focuses on environmental topics that Initial
Study determined needs further study
• After Draft EIR published, 45-day public
comment period
• Public hearing
• Revise Draft EIR as necessary
• Written responses to comments
• Certification of EIR by decision-maker prior to
decision whether to approve project
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Environmental Review
CEQA Topics
• Aesthetics
• Land Use
• Agriculture
• Minerals
• Air Quality
• Noise
(incl. Greenhouse Gas)
• Biology
• Cultural
• Geology
• Hazards/Hazmat
• Hydrology
• Population/Housing
• Public Services
• Recreation
• Traffic
• Utilities
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Environmental Review
Public Comment on Areas to be
Analyzed in EIR
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Environmental Review
Next Steps
• Consider today’s comments in preparing Draft
EIR
• Publish Draft EIR – January 3, 2011
• Public hearing January 26, 2011
• 45-day public comment period through
February 16, 2011
• Written responses to comments
• Regents certification of EIR in March 2011
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