Plan Potrero Hill SF

Public Hearing* on the
Draft Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the
UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay

Tuesday, April 22, 2008
7:00 p.m.
UCSF Mission Bay Campus
Genentech Hall Auditorium
600 16th Street

The purpose of this hearing is to solicit public comments on the adequacy and accuracy of information presented in the
Draft EIR.

Multiple community meetings have been conducted on this project.

UCSF plans to build an integrated hospital complex to serve children, women, and cancer patients near its existing 43-
acre biomedical campus on a 14.5-acre parcel south of UCSF’s existing biomedical campus at Mission Bay. The project
site is bounded by 16th, 3rd, and Mariposa Streets, and the future extension of Owens Street. The new facility will increase
inpatient and outpatient capacity to meet growing patient demand, address old and outdated facilities, and comply with
state-mandated earthquake safety standards for hospitals.

Upon completion of the first phase in 2014, the hospital complex will include a total of 289 beds:
• A 183-bed children’s hospital with urgent/emergency care and pediatric primary and specialty outpatient facilities;
• A 70-bed adult hospital for cancer and women’s specialty patients;
• A women’s hospital for cancer care, specialty surgery, 36-bed birth center and select outpatient services;
• An energy center, helipad, parking and support services.

In a future phase, the medical center plans to add 261 beds (for a total of 550 beds), outpatient space, and support
services. At full development the proposed project will total approximately 1,787,000 gross square feet.

An analysis of up to 400 beds on the site in 2014 and up to 650 beds in 2025 was completed in a 2005 EIR. This 2008
EIR tiers from the 2005 EIR analysis. Topics analyzed in this 2008 EIR are: aesthetics, air quality, hazards, land use,
noise, transportation, and utilities. The 2008 EIR finds that since certification of the 2005 EIR, there are no new significant
impacts that cannot be mitigated to less than significant levels.

The Draft EIR will be available online at http://campusplanning.ucsf.edu/ starting April 8, 2008. There will be a 45-day
public comment period. Paper or compact disc copies are available by contacting UCSF Environmental Coordinator
Michelle Schaefer at HospitalEIR@planning.ucsf.edu or 415-476-2911. Copies are also available for viewing at the
following libraries: UCSF Kalmanovitz Library, 530 Parnassus Avenue; UCSF Mission Bay Library, Rutter Center, 1675
Owens Street; Mission Bay Branch Library, 960 4th Street; Potrero Branch Library, 1616 20th Street; Bayview Branch
Library, 5075 3rd Street.

To provide written comments on the Draft EIR, please write to Ms. Schaefer at UCSF Campus Planning, Box 0286,
San Francisco, CA 94143-0286 or email HospitalEIR@Planning.ucsf.edu. Comments must be received by 5:00 p.m.
on May 23, 2008.

* The UCSF Mission Bay campus is accessible using the MUNI T-Third light rail line. If you drive, park at no cost in
the SURFACE LOT (near the UCSF Police Station); this lot can be reached by taking 16th Street to 4th Street.
Complimentary parking is not available in the garages. Please bring photo ID to show at building security desk.

UCSF fully ascribes to the Americans with Disabilities Act.
If at any time you feel you have a need for accommodation,
please contact UCSF Community and Governmental Relations at
415-476-3206 with your suggested accommodation.

[Please share this email with your friends, neighbors, and members of your community organizations]

Dear Neighbors,

We at UCSF fe el that continuing community involvement is important as we plan for the new medical center for children, women, and cancer patients at Mission Bay . The hospital site is located just south of the existing UCSF research campus (bounded by Mariposa, 16th, 3rd, and the new Owens Street ).

The next meeting of the UCSF Hospital Replacement CAG Action Team* will be h el d:

Monday, March 31 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. UCSF Mission Bay Campus* Genentech Hall, Room N-114 600 16th Street

The March 31 agenda will focus on helicopter flight test results and helipad alternative sites analysis. Refreshments will be provided.

The purpose of the February 21 meeting was to update the community on site plan and exterior design. Changes to the Third Street side of the medical center were extremely well received, especially by neighbors who pressed UCSF for changes. Attendees felt that the Third Street side is now quite attractive and inviting to the community. See attached for a view of the energy center toward the north and also the pedestrian plaza entrance toward the south of the site on Third. Also in February, UCSF brought together key parties to discuss future bicycle routes in and around the hospital site: SF Bicycle Coalition, SF Bike Advisory Committee, MTA, Catellus, Redevelopment Agency, UCSF Community Advisory Group member Janet Carpinelli, Mission Creek Bikeway advocate Judy West, and the UCSF departments of Transportation and Campus Planning.

The purpose of the January 24 Scoping meeting was to provide an opportunity for the community to discuss with the campus the scope and content of the environmental information they expect to see included in the Draft EIR. This meeting was attended by 13 neighbors. Notification of the meeting was sent to all households and businesses in the 94107 and 94158 zip codes, a listserv of over 500 email addresses, and over 1200 people and organizations on the UCSF Mission Bay community database; in addition, an ad was placed in the Potrero View. The Initial Study includes a project description, potential environmental impacts, and proposed mitigation measures for any significant effects, and is available online at http://campusplanning.ucsf.edu/pdf/initialstudy.pdf . The Draft EIR is due out circa April 4; a public hearing on the Draft EIR will be held on April 22.

* The UCSF Mission Bay campus is accessible using the MUNI T-Third light rail line. If you drive, please park at NO COST in the SURFACE LOT (near the UCSF Police Station); this lot can be reached by taking 16th Street to 4th Street . Complimentary parking is not available in the garages. Please bring photo ID to show at building security desk.

For more information about the Mission Bay hospital design process, including information sheets and presentations from past meetings, please see www.community.ucsf.edu or contact Barbara Bagot-López, Associate Director of UCSF Community R el ations, at bblopez@cgr.ucsf.edu or 476-8318.

*FYI: Explanation of various UCSF- and Mission Bay-r el ated meetings and groups

• UCSF Community Advisory Group (CAG)—Formed in 1992, the CAG is comprised of representatives from a wide variety of San Francisco neighborhood, civic, ethnic, labor, and business groups who function as a sounding board, giving UCSF unvarnished views on issues including campus space needs and expansion opportunities.
• UCSF Hospital Replacement CAG Action Team—Subcommittee of the CAG, focused on Hospital Replacement project, which over the years has included the Mission Bay , Mount Zion , and Parnassus campus sites; currently focused on Mission Bay hospital.
• UCSF Mission Bay CAG Action Team—Subcommittee of the CAG, focused on Mission Bay campus-r el ated issues and projects; e.g., location of central utility plant on research campus; design of cancer research building.
• UCSF Mission Bay Community Task Force—Formed in March 2007, the purpose of this group is to provide UCSF and neighbors with the opportunity to have an honest dialogue about the desires and needs of the community and the future direction of UCSF in and around Mission Bay over the next five years.

Contact person for above UCSF groups is Barbara Bagot-López at bblopez@cgr.ucsf.edu.

• Mission Bay Citizens Advisory Committee (CAC) —this committee is advisory to the San Francisco Redev el opment Agency regarding the Mission Bay redev el opment area, 303 acres of land including UCSF’s 58-acre campus. Contact person is Catherine Reilly at Catherine.Reilly@sfgov.org
• Port of San Francisco meetings and groups:

– Central Waterfront Advisory Group—Port property from Mission Creek to 24th Street ; CWAG meets generally on the 2nd Wednesday at 4 p.m.. Contact Person is Mark Paez mark.paez@sfport.com

– China Basin Seawall Lot 337—The Port is undertaking a public planning process for the 14-acre site south of China Basin Chann el that is currently used for Giants and commuter parking. Contact person is Diane Oshima at diane.oshima@sfport.com

– Pier 70 Master Plan —Pier 70 is a 65-acre Port-owned site, generally between 18^th and 22^nd Streets, east of Illinois Street . The Port is conducting a public planning process to dev el op a master plan for the entire 65-acre site. Contact person is David Beaupre at david.beaupre@sfport.com

(reprinted from the September 2007 Potrero Boosters newsletter)

Since December, dozens of Potrero Hill residents (between 30 and 70 neighbors at every meeting so far) have been working to come up with a stronger, more responsive, and more thorough community-based planning process. These workshops were convened by the Boosters, the Dogpatch Neighborhood Association, the Potrero Hill Association of Merchants and Businesses, and Save Potrero as a way to improve the long-term rezoning process that has taken the City’s Planning Department most of this decade to develop. We will be publishing our community land use recommendations in late October.

At Tuesday’s Boosters meeting (September 25), we be will continuing our conversation from the last meeting on September 8, where we discussed strategies to get meaningful contributions to public benefits into our neighborhood planning.

Here’s some of what we’ve accomplished at Plan Potrero Hill in these past months:
• We’ve built a growing consensus around a new land use map, showing the centers of our new neighborhoods, and locations for open space.
• We’ve contained bioscience uses and large offices in one large portion of the Central Waterfront.
• We’ve combined the Showplace Square and Central Waterfront neighborhoods, and added the Port, Mission Bay, UCSF, and public housing land to our planning area.
• We’ve added the Department of Public Health’s ENCHIA standards to our public benefits discussion.
• We’ve demanded that transit improvements have to be part of new developments in our neighborhoods.
• We helped develop one of the best Planning Dept. proposals in years for getting sites for affordable housing.
• We’ve revived discussion about legalizing in-law units.
• We’ve influenced the Planning Department staff consensus, changing their proposed zoning map and getting us closer than we have ever been to good planning for our new neighborhoods.
None of these things were true in December 2006.

The big remaining problem, as it was in December 2006, is creating a real public benefits program to go along with the zoning. It’s hung us up for most of the summer, just like it’s hung up the Planning Department.

In December 2006, the proposed Potrero Hill area plan needed strong analysis of neighborhood needs, a clear strategy for funding necessary improvements, and official ‘nexus’ studies connecting the two. In September 2007, those things are still needed, especially the ‘nexus’ studies. The Planning Department tells us they will have those studies late this year.

But what are our neighborhood’s priorities, once we have those studies? (We will make some progress on this question at Tuesday night’s Boosters meeting.) And, just as important, how does the Planning Department handle building projects in the ‘pipeline’ – those who have current applications and are pushing for approval now, before the plans are adopted?

The city’s Planning Commission’s made one ill-considered attempt at a decision on that second question with a vote on August 30, where they decided to exempt all pipeline projects from making any significant contributions to public improvements if they are approved in the next few months. That was a spectacularly stupid vote (some commissioners were falling asleep as they were voting!), with potentially huge implications. At this point, many years into a long planning process, there are dozens and dozens of projects, with thousands of housing units, in the Showplace Square/Central Waterfront ‘pipeline.’ Any decision on those pipeline projects could affect more than half of the entire future development of our new neighborhoods; so exempting those projects from contributing to public benefits could destroy our planning before it’s even completed.

Fortunately for us, we continue to have a Board of Supervisors that is willing to protect our neighborhoods during this critical final stretch of the community planning process. This past Tuesday, Supervisor Tom Ammiano introduced a strong set of interim controls designed to limit approvals of ‘pipeline’ projects in the Eastern Neighborhoods while plans for those neighborhoods are being completed. At the moment, interim controls are our best hope to ensure that everyone contributes their fair share to our future neighborhoods, and Potrero Hill has to show up to support the Board when the time comes to consider the controls in October.

For more background and info, join us on Tuesday! NOW MORE THAN EVER, your input is critical in making this neighborhood, your neighborhood.

There is a new document concerning the Eastern Neighborhoods available on the Planning Department’s web site called the Rezoning SocioEconomic Impacts - Draft for Public Review.

It is also available here: Rezoning SocioEconomic Impacts - Draft for Public Review