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Planning commission hears hours of public comment on CPMC long‑range plan; EIR flags major traffic, noise, air and greenhouse‑gas impacts
Summary
At a Special Meeting on Sept. 23, 2010, the San Francisco Planning Commission received hours of public comment on the California Pacific Medical Center long‑range development plan (draft EIR). Speakers split between supporters who cited seismic safety and jobs and opponents who warned of traffic, service reductions at St. Luke’s, housing pressures and inadequate DEIR analysis.
The San Francisco Planning Commission on Sept. 23 held a special public hearing on the California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC) long‑range development plan and its draft environmental impact report (EIR), receiving extensive public comment on both the project design and the EIR’s scope.
Devyani Jain, the Planning Department’s environmental review coordinator for the LRDP, summarized the proposal as a multi‑phase plan to bring CPMC into compliance with state hospital seismic rules, expand outpatient services and consolidate many inpatient functions. The draft EIR describes four campus programs (Pacific, California, Davies and St. Luke’s), and a proposed Cathedral Hill campus centered on a 15‑story, 555‑bed hospital with two medical office buildings, underground parking and a proposed pedestrian tunnel beneath Van Ness Avenue. Jain told the commission the draft EIR identified significant unavoidable environmental impacts related to transportation, noise, air quality and greenhouse‑gas emissions and that the public comment period runs through Oct. 19, 2010.
Public testimony split sharply. Large numbers of neighborhood residents, Tenderloin advocates and nurses urged the commission to require more analysis or to adopt the DEIR’s Alternative 3a (or a 3a+
