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Supervisors hear marathon appeal of CPMC long-range plan; parties agree to two-week talks
Summary
After a day-long hearing on the California Pacific Medical Center long-range development plan EIR — focused on traffic, housing and the future of St. Luke’s Hospital — planning staff defended the document while opponents said key analyses were incomplete. CPMC offered two weeks of negotiations; board continued the appeal to July 31.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on July 24 held an extended hearing on an appeal of the Planning Commission’s certification of the final environmental impact report (EIR) for the California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC) long-range development plan (LRDP), a multi-campus proposal that would build a new Cathedral Hill campus while rebuilding other CPMC facilities and a smaller replacement hospital at St. Luke’s.
Appellants — a coalition led by neighborhood groups and labor and patient-advocacy organizations — asked the board to withhold certification, saying the EIR understates traffic and transit impacts, lacks a credible housing/job nexus study, fails to analyze a feasible “3A-plus” alternative (a larger St. Luke’s and smaller Cathedral Hill) and omits a focused emergency-vehicle delay study. Planning staff and CPMC attorneys pushed back, saying the EIR is detailed, uses conservative (worst-case) assumptions, and complies with CEQA.
Why it matters: CPMC’s LRDP is a multibillion-dollar, privately…
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