“Parnassus Heights has been our home for more than a century and we look forward to advancing this unique partnership with the City as we re-envision our original campus to meet the health care needs of the 21st Century, improve the daily experience of our neighbors, and stimulate the local economy with thousands of jobs and investments in health and economic equity.”. This is an essential development, and while there can be adjustments, we in San Francisco and all of the west should welcome it. I cannot imagine opposition to this, but this is San Francisco. SAN FRANCISCO—It was announced on Monday, January 4, that the city of San Francisco and the University of California-San Francisco (UCSF) reached a deal regarding the university’s expansion plans. As a liberal, but non-rich, San Francisco resident, I do agree with Anna and Michael’s sentiments. The San Francisco African American Chamber of Commerce looks forward to collaborating with UCSF and the City on this transformative effort.”, “UCSF's proposed Parnassus Heights Campus Plan is a win-win-win for San Francisco,” said Corey Smith, the San Francisco Housing Action Coalition’s Deputy Director of Outreach, Organizing and Campaigns. Clinicians moving between bench and bed side are what fuel medical breakthroughs and a high level of patient care. Even those of us who strongly support the redevelopment (as I do and posted earlier) will be appalled if UCSF destroys such important historical art. UCSF Parnassus is a major health science university campus with research, graduate education and an academic medical center. University Development & Alumni Relations, Langley Porter Psychiatric Hospital and Clinics, Expansive Community Investments to Accompany Parnassus Heights Campus Plans, UCSF Partnership With San Francisco Brings COVID-19 Vaccinations to the Mission District, UCSF Expands Vaccination Effort in Partnership with City of San Francisco, Comprehensive Parnassus Heights Plan Moves Forward After UC Regents Vote, Comprehensive Parnassus Heights Plan (CPHP), modern hospital designed by renowned architects Herzog & De Meuron, 2018 Mount Sutro Open Space Reserve Vegetation Management Plan, Center for Science Education and Outreach, petition of support for the University’s plans for Parnassus Heights, Campus Planning, Construction and Facilities. That’s a LOT of new space for a hospital that just expanded into Mission Bay. Mission Bay is pretty much built out. Note, UCSF was on this site long before any residential development. they are bringing housing here which is desperately needed and not taking open space. Frankly, this is much more important than your house. “ISPN is encouraged by UCSF’s collaboration with the City and County of San Francisco to develop a MOU and discuss the feasibility of these ideas that range from building more housing, increasing capacity of Muni lines that serve our neighborhood, and connecting Golden Gate Park and Mount Sutro through our neighborhood streets. until it’s… wait for it… IN MY BACK YARD. Maybe they should buy back the Laurel Heights property. the riff raff! The article in the SF Chronicle this morning, about the threat by UCSF to destroy its famous murals is distressing. They are doing a ton to help green and improve the streetscape along parnassus. Over the past two-plus years, UCSF has been refining a plan to build a two million square foot hospital and research institute on the Parnassus campus. Is there (offsetting) demolition, too ?? Tell City officials that you support the plan to modernize the Parnassus Heights campus. UCSF will expand its construction and administrative workforce programs in partnership with the city’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development programs. However, the space cap wasn’t created based on the needs of the university, it was created to address the physical limitations of the Parnassus campus and its impacts on the surrounding communities. Submit a tip, ask about advertising, contact an editor, reach the publisher or report a problem with the site... © Copyright 2021 SocketSite. … so how about UCSF put a medical facility in Oakland, and help the underserved community. And if supplying healthcare is the concern, then maybe those healthcare services should be more broadly spread throughout the city – you know, like keeping the Laurel Heights campus open?! It is supposed to discuss construction, population, transportation and other impacts. The address and directions below are for the main hospital building, but you'll find UCSF services throughout the campus. There’s more traffic at Divis and Mission Bay because those areas are major transportation arteries and in my opinion the right spot for institutional development. The tower is on the east side because it’s the new hospital’s tower and must connect to the existing Hospital buildings. It has already started. – Parnassus is already a major campus. There’s reasonable development, and then there’s looming eyesores. “As we look ahead to our economic recovery, this is an opportunity for us to make significant investments in housing, transportation, jobs, and the long-term health care needs of our City,” said Mayor London Breed. I do love the gripe about it being “already a massive campus looming over the homes/residents below.” That really takes it to the next level. The parking garage is used almost exclusively by patients, visitors, and clinical faculty, many of them coming from far beyond the Bay Area. its just amazing that they are only updating the space cap after 44 years. No, it’s still there – it’s brown in the model bc it’s an existing building (lower left). You can also access information from the CDC. The space cap commitment was meant to address the very real and important issue of growing an institution of UCSF’s magnitude on a small campus in a neighborhood composed primarily of residences and community green space. Many remaining blocks are for housing. Great progress – build it! My fundamental issue is the way in which UCSF’s proposed expansion completely ignores the space cap commitment. UCSF has received letters of support for the CPHP from more than 20 community organizations, including SPUR, San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, Inner Sunset Park Neighborhood Association (ISPN) Board of Directors, Westside Transportation and Accessibility Coalition, Bay Area Council, local Chambers of Commerce, and elected officials, such as Congresswoman Jackie Speier, State Senator Scott Wiener, and Assemblymembers Phil Ting and Kevin Mullin. UCSF is by far the number 1 ranked medical facility on the west coast. Love to see the hideous parking garage right by the Irving and Arguello N stop turned into something better. The reason that high-density triad tower exists on the east (not west) side – and not appropriately nestled on the western edge of UCSF’s Mount Sutro property across multiple buildings, where renderings show a stepped-down cluster of lower-density buildings – is due to Inner Sunset septuagenarian and octogenarians that claim their OG HANC crowns as the “rightful” reps for the community, rail against the woes of dealing with any construction (worthwhile or not) in their self-delineated fiefdom, and boast of their home-ownership status and sub-$2K annual property taxes. Not how it should work… but you almost can’t blame people for trying, seeing as how the beautifully designed Kirkham Heights redevelopment was senselessly defeated. The CPHP reflects broad input from thousands of external and internal stakeholders in a planning process that began in 2018 – including 28 public meetings, multilingual surveys, UCSF town halls, and many productive conversations with neighbors, community leaders, elected officials, and city partners, as well as UCSF faculty, staff, and trainees. June 5, 2020 The growth and expansion of UCSF’s 107-acre Parnassus Heights Campus, which includes the 61-acre Mount Sutro Open Space Reserve, was limited to a total of 3.55 million square feet of developed, non-residential space back in 1976, a limit which it has slightly exceeded by around 150,000 square feet. Let’s not forget that the UC Trustees were within a couple of days of voting to abandon San Francisco and move lock, stock, and barrel to Harbor Bay Isle in Alameda because of the NIMBY opposition they faced at every turn at Parnassus. It’s not “built out” it’s just wasted. I had a physician there at one time and that is what he told me. “Creating new jobs and serving more patients, improving public transportation, and building more than one thousand new affordable homes will enormously benefit the neighborhood and the city as a whole.". There is no way the expansion proposed for Parnassus could be done, at this point, in MB. San Francisco Mayor London Breed said in a tweet that the city and UCSF agreed on a “proposed community benefits plan” and the “highlights” include: The … Some of these people would actually prefer if the whole campus were demolished and replaced by single-family homes. Other outdated and seismically vulnerable buildings also will be replaced with state-of-the-art facilities to strengthen UCSF’s renowned research and training programs. It will take them a few decades to fill it out completely most likely. The hospital desperately needs to be modernised, and it includes housing so that care providers can be close to their patients. seriously the traffic is 5x worse on Divis and in Mission Bay than Parnassus. Laurel Heights was supposed to house UCSF’s School of Pharmacy; both the administration and labs. +1 Jim. Insuring existing residents are given replacement housing. Learn more, Informed By 2-Year Community And City Process, Benefits Include Additional Campus Housing, Transit Improvements, Workforce Training Opportunities. UCSF will double its existing housing inventory (1,257 units), adding 1,263 net new housing units on and off campus over the life of the project. UCSF Mission Bay is 85% parking garages by volume. The Bay Area Council strongly supports this proposed project.”, © 2021 The Regents of The University of California. The Financial and Capital Strategies Committee voted to send the environmental impact report for UCSF’s Parnassus expansion to the full Board of … this is excellent news and much needed. 750 units of housing feels a little light. UCSF and the SFMTA are committed to working together to expand alternatives to car travel and reduce car use, accommodate safe and usable access for all travel modes, and to​ expand transit capacity and service, including collaboration towards accommodating three-car trains on the N-Judah. Mission Bay bought UC some time, but it was never going to be large enough. we should do anything we can to help support their growth and the ability to keep medical research here. Zion campus. UCSF will leverage its commitment as an Anchor Institution to advance economic security and opportunity in under-resourced communities to improve health equity, including increasing spending with small, local and diverse businesses by at least 50 percent by 2024. UCSF recognized the pain and wanted to help, and thanks to the incredible generosity of our donors and many of you, we established the UCSF COVID-19 Relief Program for staff and learners in September. Why not expand down on Divis or in Mission Bay? With these ideas in hand, UCSF has worked closely with the City to develop a Memorandum of Understanding to ensure the community benefits envisioned by neighborhood leaders during UCSF’s community engagement process are aligned with City priorities. i’m am most certainly not anti-development, but this expansion at Parnassus seems like a really bad idea. That new triad tower on the western end is grossly out of scale, and will stand out for miles around, silohouetted against the preserve. A proposal to dramatically expand the UC San Francisco (UCSF) Parnassus campus is being hastily brought before the University of California’s Board of Regents this week. this is a world class institution and is something we should all support. There’s already a lot of traffic through it, and an “anchor tenant” as you’ve described would overwhelm the roads throughout the park. – They are continuing to build out Mission Bay as well. There are plenty of under-developed lots there that are already earmarked for development. However, UCSF has ignored the space cap commitment entirely, initially acting in bad faith by hiding the size and scale of its building plans, and instead focusing its disingenuous community outreach on trying to mitigate community opposition with small concessions. Great transportation already exists, and we need a great hospital/medical center to serve our part of the City. In my view, this is why expansion at the existing campus is needed. We are pleased to announce the opening with a ribbon cutting that took place in December 2018. You have my support 110%. An expansion of the UCSF Parnassus campus will include 2 million square feet of hospital and office space and more than 1,200 housing units for students and faculty. UCSF will strengthen its partnerships with San Francisco Unified School District – such as the Science Education Partnership and Center for Science Education and Outreach – to support STEM curriculum, internship opportunities, pipeline programs and providing increased exposure to career opportunities in health care and mental health care professions for underrepresented and minority youth. If UCSF believes that the terms of the space cap commitment need to be modified, then UCSF should sit down with the community stakeholders and negotiate a new commitment in good faith. January 12, 2021 Two things became perfectly clear yesterday at a hearing on the UCSF expansion plan in Parnassus Heights: The amount of housing the university plans to build is woefully inadequate – and the city’s Memorandum of Understanding with the school is completely unenforceable. *Certainly don’t know what an oligarch-arch might be, but I definitely meant “oligarch”. San Francisco residents have submitted hundreds of letters of support and hundreds more have signed a petition of support for the University’s plans for Parnassus Heights. The proposed new UCSF Helen Diller Medical Center, slated to open in 2030, will increase inpatient capacity by 42 percent and the Emergency Department by nearly 80 percent. sockettome presented a detailed response (that even acknowledged UCSF’s expansion needs), and all you can do is be dismissively insulting? The growth and expansion of UCSF’s 107-acre Parnassus Heights Campus, which includes the 61-acre Mount Sutro Open Space Reserve, was limited to a total of 3.55 million square feet of developed, non-residential space back in 1976, a limit which it has slightly exceeded by around 150,000 square feet. Check here for directions to a specific clinic. Don’t forget to bring this treatise to the UN as well. But that doesn’t mean that a Salesforce Tower’s worth of additional space – and thousands of more trips per day to the campus – should be whitewashed and accepted without examination. Not to mention UCSF is a public institution and has a fiduciary responsibility to the tax payers. As a resident of the neighborhood, I’m also not a fan of expanding what is already a massive campus looming over the homes/residents below. The ISPN looks forward to continuing to work with UCSF to bring these community investments to fruition and ensure neighbor voice continues to be part of the process.”, “As a top job creator and the second largest employer in the City and County, UCSF contributes to San Francisco’s energy and ‘innovation ecosystem,’ attracting world-class talent to live, work, and study here in our city,” said Dr. Matthew Ajiake, president of the San Francisco African American Chamber of Commerce. For that matter, there are UC schools everywhere … and Stanford medical facilities outside P.A. I hope they work with the city on street changes to make the N faster and more reliable, and biking safer and more comfortable, so as to meaningfully improve the somewhat car-centric (by SF standards) nature of this campus. Located near the center of San Francisco, the original UCSF campus starts at the base of Mt. supervisors' request to delay vote on Parnassus expansion sfchronicle.com - J.K. Dineen. Unlike the medical centers of Duke or Stanford, this campus is not surrounded by acres of university land. Half of the affordable units will be priced at 60 to 80 percent AMI, 25% of the units at 81-100% AMI and another quarter at 101-120% AMI. I’m usually against NIMBY opposition, and the rest of the UCSF plan seems fine – but that tower has to go. UCSF, like UCLA, Stanford, Johns Hopkins, etc, are structured with the hospital, research labs and education close to each other physically, culturally and operationally. To promote neighborhood walkability, the project also includes streetscape improvements such as stop upgrades, enhanced lighting, and integrated planning for Parnassus Avenue to accommodate transit, curb management, and pedestrian safety. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to take exception to an additional 2M square feet of development beyond the current “limit” of 3.6M square feet. UCSF has huge private resources and many people have advocated for it to become a private institution. I lived in and around this neighborhood for 20 years, and Parnasus really doesn’t need any more traffic. it is literally crumbling and will need massive redevelopment to keep its status. The Comprehensive Parnassus Heights Plan (CPHP), as UCSF calls it, is a vision that the university says will enhance its “research, education, and care delivery and contributes to the vibrancy of the neighborhood and the broader community,” which was stated in an October 2019 news release. Worst case, rent it out! You really cant purchase a home next to a 110 year old institution, one of the leading academic medical centers in the country, with a $6bn annual budget, and expect it to never change. UCSF has not unloaded it, it has been leased for 99 years. The proposed benefit package provides a national model of investment in campus housing, workforce training opportunities, transit improvements and operations, and other community priorities while improving a critical emergency care facility serving San Francisco’s westside, seismically upgrading the University’s medical facilities, and providing urgently needed expansion of the UCSF Helen Diller Medical Center’s capacity over the next decade. I understand and sympathize with UCSF’s urgent need to grow as an institution. Economies of scale and network effects are powerful forces. San Francisco, CA — Today the City and County of San Francisco announced an agreement in principle with the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) on a community benefits package to accompany UCSF’s plans to update its Parnassus Heights campus.. Whatever “shadow fan” (I love that word) there is probably matches that of the hill closely.