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El Cajon council pauses proposed zoning change affecting Kaiser site, asks for progress report by July 8
Summary
Councilors agreed to exclude a commercial land-use change (section 20) from an ordinance and asked staff and Kaiser Permanente to return with a progress report or term sheet by July 8, after Kaiser asked for more time to discuss development assurances for a former hospital site.
The El Cajon City Council on April 22 agreed to delay final action on a zoning-code amendment that would remove hospitals as an allowed use in certain commercial zones for one property owned by Kaiser Permanente.
Kaiser representatives asked the council for a continuance to negotiate assurances that would allow them to proceed with a hospital on the former El Cajon Valley Hospital site; the council agreed to continue the discussion and requested a progress report or draft term sheet by July 8.
Skyler Denniston, representing Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, said the site at Greenfield and Main had been acquired "for the sole purpose of developing a medical, hospital there" and requested additional time to negotiate. "We would like to commit to building a hospital, a state of our hospital for this community," Denniston said.
Jennifer Lynch, outside counsel for Kaiser (Manatt,…
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