Supervisors approve UCSF ground lease for new research building after parking concessions

San Francisco — The Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to approve a lease-disposition and development agreement and a 75-year ground lease with the Regents of the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) to build a new research building adjacent to San Francisco General Hospital.

The board approved the LDDA and ground lease after supervisors pressed UCSF and the Department of Public Health on mitigation for the loss of on-site parking during construction and long-term parking access for patients and staff. UC agreed to provide a $10,000,000 parking reimbursement contribution to the city and, during the meeting, UCSF committed in writing to permanently reserve 30 parking spaces for its faculty and staff at Mission Bay to offset spaces removed from the San Francisco General campus.

Why it matters: The research building is part of a long-running redevelopment of the San Francisco General campus that city and university officials say will support research and clinical care. Supervisors said they backed the development but insisted on concrete mitigation for parking and traffic impacts near the hospital, which serves low-income and medically fragile patients.

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