Mount Zion Parking Garage
UCSF is proposing a new parking garage at Mount Zion, located at 2420 Sutter Street, near Divisadero. This new garage parking structure would serve patients, visitors, and UCSF healthcare providers.
The UCSF Medical Center at Mount Zion is proposing a new parking garage at 2420 Sutter Street near Divisadero that would serve patients, visitors, and UCSF healthcare providers. Currently an empty lot, this site was the home of the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis (SFCP) until December 2007. UCSF is negotiating with Urban Pacific Properties to construct the building, which would include approximately 220 - 230 parking spaces..
An important part of this planning process is gathering community input on the initial building design concepts and providing the opportunity for neighbors to ask questions and identify potential areas of concern. Community meetings were held to provide information about the project as well as to gather input from community members. The first two community meetings were held at Herbst Hall & Auditorium on the Mount Zion campus on Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010 and Thursday, November 18th, 2010. Since our communication with neighbors in June, the project was revised: it will no longer house SFCP, and is now proposed for parking on one level below ground and six levels above ground. This would lower the overall height of the garage by approximately fifteen feet and also lower the height of the elevator tower by approximately seven feet.
The proposed Mount Zion Parking Garage will provide additional parking in the neighborhood, alleviating pressure on neighborhood street parking. The garage will also offer welcome relief to the large number of patients who travel to UCSF from outside of San Francisco—68 percent of inpatients and 45 percent of outpatients—as well as patients who are not able to walk several blocks from remote parking due to compromised health or mobility problems.
The new parking garage will include:
- 222 parking spaces, with 75 allotted for patients and visitors and 25 percent for healthcare providers
- Preferential parking for carpool and electric vehicles, with charging stations provided
- 22 disabled access parking spaces, representing 10 percent of total spaces
- Bicycle and motorcycle parking
As an added benefit to patients, visitors and UCSF employees, the Transportation Demand Management Office, located in the garage, will:
- Offer information about alternative transit programs and give staff, faculty, and students one-on-one assistance through the Campus Rideshare Coordinator
- Offer information about pre-tax transit incentives for public transit, UCSF vanpools, and UCSF commute clubs
- Sell Clipper Cards and BART tickets, as well as provide information about buying them online
- Issue UCSF bicycle permits
The new garage will have an entrance and exit on Sutter Street, and will have an underground connection to the garage at 1701 Divisidero Street. The parking rate will be $6 per hour, with a disincentive for all-day parking to help ensure that there are available spaces as patients and visitors arrive throughout the day.
Please see the links below for information about the agenda and presentations from the past community meetings.
UCSF Mt. Zion Garage Initial Study Announcement
December 8, 2010 Scoping Meeting
June 22, 2010 Community Meeting
November 18, 2010 Community Meeting
UCSF Mt. Zion Parking Garage Draft Environmental Impact Review
UCSF Mt. Zion Parking Garage Draft Environmental Impact Review Appendix
The environmental impact report (EIR) scoping meeting, held on December 8th, 2010, provided an opportunity for the community to discuss the scope and content of the environmental information they expected to see included in the Draft EIR. This allowed UCSF to learn about potential concerns early, as well as further define the issues, feasible alternatives, and potential mitigation measures that may warrant in-depth analysis in the environmental review process. This meeting was not required by law.
The Draft EIR was published on January 3rd, 2011 and was followed by a 45-day public comment period which included a public hearing on January 26th, 2011. The public comment period for this document has ended. Comments will be responded to in writing, and the Draft EIR will then be revised as necessary, with the Final EIR being certified by the decision-making body as determined by the UC Board of Regents. The Draft EIR can be viewed at http://campusplanning.ucsf.edu/ . Appendices to the Draft EIR can be viewed here
Damon Lew—Assistant Director, Community Relations
(phone) (415) 514-2651
(fax) (415) 476-3541
dlew@cgr.ucsf.edu