an update on what this is in the agreement to seek your consent. so, i will turn it over to ken rich from the mayor's office to walk us through this. >> good afternoon board members. if i can have the overhead. i am ken rich with the office of economic and workforce development. as you probably know the city is working on their proposal to build five new medical facilities in the city in order to comply with state mandates regarding seismic safety for hospitals. the project will provide two new seismicly safe hospitals for the city, inject over $2 billion into the economy and provide over 1,500 construction job in the short-term. a development agreement is a binding contract which vests their approval for these facilities in return for a set of community benefits which the

developer would provide to the city. it includes community benefits related to health care, workforce development, affordable housing, improvements and transit. together it was recommended by the planning commission last thursday which certified the project's e.i.r. the board of supervisors has the ultimate approval authority and is expected to act within the next few months. in a few minutes we will go over the agreements. first i would like to summarize the project for you. it is the construction of a new five-story, 80-bed full service acute care hospital. it will be built on the existing parking lot. the existing hospital will stay in operation until the new

hospital is ready. it also includes a new five-story medical office building adjaceant to the hospital. at cathedral hill the project includes the construction of a new 555-bed, 265-foot tall hospital at the seattle of the closed cathedral hill hotel. across from that a 130-foot tall medical office building. construction of an underground tunnel connecting the two buildings. once the cathedral hill camp suscomplete, in about 2017, the acute care services at california and pacific campuses would be transferred to the new cathedral hill. lastly on dubose a new 46,000

square foot, four-story medical office clinic building housing a neuroscience constitute -- institute. that is a brief overview of the project itself. i am go to ask briefly the planning department to go over with you the traffic and circulation issues mostly focusing on the cathedral hill campus. >> good afternoon. i am the transportation planner for the cathedral hill campus. i will give you an overview of the traffic and circulation at that site. so this is an overview. i will zoom into each location.

north is up. the bottom there is geary. in the midcell post street. ken was saying and it has been described before, the hospital on the left. the medical office building is on the east side. that is the focus of the presentation today. this is the new building. a medical office renovated at sutter. so we zoom in to the hospital site. blue arrows indicate vehicular access, driveways. purple indicate pedestrian access. the main parking access for the hospital will be off of geary. you can see that northbound arrow at the bottom and access off of post street for cars driving into the parking garage. once inside there is an

anterior drop off and pick up zone. all of that activity will be off street. then there is access to the parking garage from within that drop off area. on the left you can see there is a loading dock that can accommodate several trucks at once anden ables large trucks to pull in facing forward, maneuver off street and then exit facing forward as well back on to franklin street. you can see the emergency room access for ambulances and for people that need to get to the emergency room quickly. they will access that off of franklin. then they will exit on to post street to the north and immediately east of that there is a small parking area for ambulances. you can see the driveway in and out. that is all the access in. for cars exitting the garage they are exitting only on to

post street. there is also an emergency drive way on to geary street and emergency situation in order to keep circulation functional following an emergency. most of the time that drive way will be closed off. egress will be only on to post street. and this is to the east, the medical office building. blue arrows are the driveways in. the medical office building garage is either from geary, you can see that northbound arrow. there will be access into the garage from cedar street. access out will be only on to geary street. there is no emergency egress at all on to geary street.

cedar street will be converted from one-way operation to two-way operation. the cars that are exitting will have the ability to go right towards polk or have a new opportunity to go left and make a right turn. it gives them two exit points. there is a passenger pick up and drop off area right at the front door. there is also, in case that area fills up, additional loading within the garage. if that gets filled up it will be attendant for further cars to go into the garage. that is the medical office building. this diagram shows the truck routes. the majority of trucks serve pentagon the construction will be coming from the south, heading north if they are

servicing the hospital site they will make a left on to gear and he travel clock wise around the hospital site and proceed south once they are finished. trucks would head north, make a right on to cedar and proceed in a clock wise direction and come back on geary and make a left when they are exitting. that is the temporary truck construction routing for the project. this graphic shows the temporary lane closures that will be required. the orange and the orange hash represents -- the orange is where a parking lane will be closed to have truck staging

areas. the parking lane will be closed. whenever the sidewalk is closed there will be a temporary sidewalk facility constructed in that parking lane. wooden structure so that pedestrians will have full access. the westbound transit only lane will have to be temporarily closed during construction. buses will have to use the mixed flow traffic lanes. on franklin as well there is a parking lane that is a tow away lane for an additional traffic lane in rush hour. there will be reduced capacity during construction. once construction is done all the lane guess back to their current configuration. the parking will be permanently removed. besides that, it is pretty much back to the existing condition once the construction is done.

lastly we talked about sidewalk closeures. in purple around both sides when necessary when a sidewalk needs to be closed there will be a wooden structure to walk with the parking lane. you can see that it has been discussed the pedestrian tunnel . the construction of that will take about five months. it will be a cut and cover tunnel. 2 of the 6 travel lanes will be closed at a time, only in the evening after :00 p.m., i believe before 5:00 a.m. is when the conruction of that will occur. and also during that time one of the two sidewalks sidewalks will be closed. that is the only instance when construction could require closing a sidewalk but always

at least 1 of the 2 would be open. and when they are not working on the tunnel both sidewalks will be open. that is are the presentation about the traffic. >> thank you very much. >> i want to wrap up by showing this last slide. in this project we introduced new concepts on improving transportations in these corridors. this is the funding plan that they are committing to the m.t.a., providing $5 million for the b.r.t. projects and then secondly, which is a new concept, they will be providing a 50% off peak and 75% peak charge for every car that interests and captains the garage this . is a new concept we are trying to implement. these parking spaces are a

little over a thousand. we felt it was a good structure to mitigate some of the automobile use on that corridor. they are providing $10.4 million for transit delay which we will use for other capital improvements and 400,000 for bicycle studies. roberto probably clarified this but in the documents we had not indicated that the parking charge would apply to all compensated parking. physicians getting free parking will be paid for. so there is a change that says in the agreement that the

>> thank you very much. members of the board. that concludes the presentation. anyone care to address the board from the public? come forward, please. ok. >> we just completed litigation in sonoma county over a new sutter hospital to be built on the fringes of santa rosa. the issue there is that it was a transit unfriendly location. and as a result of the litigation sonoma county is requiring the hospital to provide a free shut toll the smart station, which is commutor rail and free bus and train passes to employees. when i looked at the list of elements of the development agreement relative to transit

the issue of transit passes jumps out for employees. it strikes me that the city's employer transit benefit ordinance is relevant here. it struck me that one could ask for more. thank you very much. >> thank you, sir. >> two items on this. i had not been following the project very closely. i only learned about the tunnel as part of the presentation today. i oppose this tunnel. i think that it would make sewer and storm water management more difficult. in addition, as i understand this proposed agreement overall

it would not contain or reduce the city's employee health care cost, which is a major driver of m.t.a. operating cost deficits. so if these two issues are not properly addressed i believe the board should withhold its consent to the agreement. i would encourage you to ask about the health care costs as it relates to m.t.a. going forward. thank you. >> public comment is over. members of the board, what is your pleasure? >> could we hear the amendment? >> it has to do with your resolution having to do with the traffic and parking modifications. item b with regard to establishing sidewalk widening. there is a proposal to widen on says ar chavez and the valencia street widening needs to be

deleted because it has to still go through a public outreach and hearing process. so the amendment to the board's resolution would be to delete reference to widening the sidewalk on valencia to 19 feet . >> does that need to be a separate action by the board? >> i'm sorry. just one more question. i think you mentioned that there would be a change to the -- >> sorry. i should have been clearer. it is not a resolution. it is the change in the d.a., the development agreement. i am just informing you that the d.a. will be changed to incorporate that amendment. >> that means people will get free parking? >> it was originally written

that if you are a physician or delivery person you would not be subject to the fee but now the amendment would make them subject to the fee. >> everyone parking would be subject to the fee. >> everyone. >> that is interesting. we pretty much charge everybody for parking now. we discussed having free parking at work is one of the highest indicators as to whether you will drive to work. i think that it is nice that we are being consistent. motion to approve. >> ok. is there a second? >> second. >> any further discussion? if not all those in favor say aye. ok. we will take a short break.

>> item number 11. realming the board of supervisors approve amendments to san francisco transportation code, division 1, article 7, to eliminate restrictions on rear exit boarding of municipal railway transit vehicles. we have a member from the public. >> board members,