>> we will mark you absent on that one. >> commissioner moore. >> aye. >> commissioner sugaya. >> aye. >> commissioner olague. >> aye. secretary avery: thank you. that planned president olague: good afternoon. the planning commission is back in session. i can remind everyone to tell off your cell phones, your pagers, any electronic devices that may sound off during the proceedings. also, this is a pretty crowded room, if you feel the need to engage in a secondary discussion, we ask that you take those discussions outside as they become extremely disruptive to the process. i'm not going to call role again, but the commission is on item number 13. the california pacific medical center long range development plan overview.

you want to start talking so that the camera can get you? >> good evening, president olague. this evening's meeting is the second of five meetings for the california pacific medical center long range development plan. we plan to cover the proposed building. this includes a new hospital and medical office building at the st. luke's campus, a new office and medical building at van ness and geary. this include campus and streetscape improvements that are contiguous to the respective site. the principal architect will lead tonight's presentation on the architecture, urban design and public realm improvements proposed for these three campuses.

the staff planned to include a brief overview, we will be postponing this discussion until the next informational hearing which is scheduled for june 9. at the june 9 hearing, city staff will present the development agreement and some of the key topics. we hope to cover most, if not all of those topics during that hearing. the fourth presentation will be on july 14. at that hearing, staff will provide updates on the development agreement and will seek to initiate the notification process for the planning code and general plan amendments that are required for the st. luke's and van he is and geary campuses. certification of the final e.i.r. and action on the entitlements are scheduled for august 11. the department has created a web page dedicated to the project which includes the latest information about the long range development plan this is an excellent resource for the public as it provides general information about the project, a catalog of publication and presentations for download and a schedule of upcoming hearings. it enables one to send an email

reminder for those hearings. that concludes my presentation. i would like to turn over to the c.e.o. dr. warren browner for some introductory remarks. thank you. >> thank you. president, members of the planning commission, i'm delighted to have the opportunity to be back. previously at the march hearing, i outlined in some detail the health care declare and medical programming rationale for the hospital rebuild. we discussed how each of our campuses as part of a citywide integrated system in which quality of care, patient experience, and 21st century best practices will be provided. as you know, cpmc has been providing quality health care for more than 150 years and we're looking at each campus'

original shell and exterior. you can see pictures of german hospital, the pacific dispensary for women and children and lane hospital. they reflect the design trends and character of the 19th century which is when they were all built. more recently in the 20th century when the buildings were renovated or upgraded or replaced, they included design elements popular at the time. with the state seismic upgrading requirements, we now have the opportunity to modernize our health care delivery system for the 21st century and perhaps beyond. similar to our commitment to quality care respective of campus, we have striven to ensure that the architecture at each of the campuses works to complement one another, utilize best practices in health care design and uphold the character of surrounding neighborhoods. similarly the interiors have

been designed with patient care experience foremost in mind. to help us realize this vision, we hired the smith group, a national firm that specializes in sustainable architecture and design. my colleague, david king, will guide us through the design team's vision, rationale and details both about the architectural fibers, the pedestrian and patient experiences for our new proposed earthquake safe hospitals and buildings and the new neuroscience institute we're proposing. i will be able to answer questions following the presentation particularly if they don't ask architect rule questions. i would like to introduce david king. >> members of the commission, my name is david king. i believe you have a copy in front of you. i'll go through it. it has page numbers on it. of special note is we're going to look quickly at five

separate building projects on three different sites. i thought i would start on page 6 by letting you know of the shared commitments that the buildings will bring to the city. first and foremost, these are complex programs that are designed for delivering high quality medical care to members of the san francisco community for many years to come. thank you. secondly all of our projects are committed to being designed sustainably and will have certification. they will be scaled to fit in the neighborhood. president olague: one moment. there are some seats over on this side so if you want to come around the front. i just wanted to let you know that. ok, i'm sorry about that. >> that's ok. thank you. they will be set with an inviting streetscape and they will be using appropriate high quality durable materials and those trends will be i think

seen clearly as we go through each one of the sites. if you turn to page 7, the first site is davies where we're pro position a new neurosciences institute. that is a 49,000 square foot four story clinical and medical office building that is connected at its fourth level to the existing hospital. its theme is improved public access throughout and there are a number of specific advantages that the scheme will bring to the site. the view on page 8 those the view from noe street and the issue there is scale. this is within a very discreet and small scale residential neighborhood. that's a neighborhood characterized by high levels of detail of wooden trim, of siding, etc. the building answers that through the use of a wood facade and a number of very

discreet carefully window openings that use multiple plains of glazing in the form of bay windows to catch in a modern way the spirit of that street. the current negative of noe street is the walls and the landscaping. that is serving to isolate the site from the community and those will be removed. in this view to your left, you're now on noe street looking at a new entry plaza that will be positioned mid block. there will be entirely new streetscape, new parking and as you go in your line of sight to the right of this drawing, you'll move to the avenue and access to the park. sheet number nine is the proposed site plan. of key interest is the provision of a new lobby access point at the intersection of noe street. that lobby access to facilitate public transit access into the campus.

it's a feature that is currently very difficult and it will provide director intentional access to all of the existing buildings. there is a secondary entrance off the plaza which we saw in that earlier rendering. thirdly and very importantly, programmatically there is a new auto drop-off up internal to the campus that will provide patient access to the facility. most of those are motion and ability impaired. that is a drop-off to facilitate their access points. on sheet 10, we see the building as it's presented at the corner of noe. you can see the positive impact of that new lobby space. glass, discreet landscaping protected from the street, that should be a very different environment than you see there now. there is also an effort internal to the building planning that places corridors and lobbies directly adjacent to noe street, so we're able to

produce glazing light, access and exposure for the street that will provide an enhanced level of public safety and comfort for those moving around the building site. in view on sheet number 11, you're now across at the park, you're looking at the muni train passing there and you can see that the scale we believe is very appropriate at three stories rising to four stories mid campus. the facade with the use of wood and the unique window shapes, again appropriate to the residential scale across the street. the access point being a big improvement to transit, public access to the site generally. turning to sheet number 12, the st. luke's site is two buildings. the first of which is a full service hospital that will include 80 beds. it will be 150,000 square feet and will rise to five stories.

the second building in this proposal is multispecialty clinic and medical office building of 120,000 square feet. also rising to five stories that will provide 220 parking spaces below grade. the key urban design achievement in this sighting is the reopening of san jose avenue as a major new public plaza. turn to sheet number 13, this is a view from cesar chavez. it is looking at the proposed new hospital building main entrance. you can see the beginnings of the main open space as you move to the south up along the san jose avenue right-of-way. broad themes in the placement of the hospital, a very tight site next to residential neighborhoods. there was great effort made to organize the hospital in such a way that it mitigates in a positive sense between the scale of the hospital and the scale of the residences. there is a virus of massing strategies, colors, facade

treatments that will help to differentiate in this building and pieces of the building that will be of a smaller scale and character and will step as you move toward guerrero down cesar chavez. if you look at sheet 14, the view from guerrero along shaffsshaffs, you can see the stepping down toward the -- cesar chavez, you can see the stepping down toward the residences. in our metal panel and the window language develop colorations that will separate those lower portions and provide sympathetic massing to those residences directly adjacent. on 15, on sheet 15 is a rendering of the proposed medical office building. this is also from cesar chavez

so we're looking back at the hospital in the rear of this rendering and the medical office building will continue those themes varied and differentiated massing, coloration and materials. it will provide a continuous retail frontage in the base of the building and will provide all of the parking that was identified in low grade parking levels. sheet 16 shows how that will work as a site plan. generally in our site plans, the red arrows indicate main entrance for garage and ambulance and the blue are the pedestrian entries. you can see san jose reopened as a major public way in the middle of the site connecting up to 27th and the original san jose trace. the uphillside of the site generally will provide ambulance access, emergency drop-off, e.d. access to the

department and an important public way and if that becomes a cab standpoint on the site and then an easy walk through the san jose avenue plaza down to cesar chavez. there will be major doors into the hospital and the m.o.b. directly off the street. in detail on sheet 17 is a rendition of the actual plaza space itself. it will include two major fountains. there is a grade change as you move uphill to the south. there is a lower fountain directly off of cesar chavez and an upper fountain near the entry off of 27th street. in all cases, the lobby sequences in the m.o.b. and the hospital have been arranged to extend the boundaries of the plaza into the buildings. that's the paler gray tones in the drawings. so major internal staircases, elevator access points, etc., are using the internal building

workings to create a broader sense -- president olague: anyone who is standing up, there are chairs over here and we discourage people from standing in front of the doors, actually. thank you. sorry again, i apologize. >> as we turn to sheet 18 and slide 18, this is a view looking back to the north. you can see san jose redeveloped as a major urban plaza, extensive landscaping, fountains, benches. the architecture device of the canopy intersects the hospital and provides coverage on the 27th side. at the far left of this drawing, you can see the ambulance drop-offs. there is a separate lobby, a glass-in lobby for the emergency department, a secondary public entry and then that canopy serves as a bright line, if you will, that carries down to cesar chavez, provides for the main drop-off from cesar chavez. turning to sheet 19, you can

see the other end of that major open space on the north side of the site looking south and the impact, the positive impact of not only both doorways but the extensive lobby areas that open off of san jose. sheet 20 is a close-up of the hospital. everything has been done within these buildings. their complex programs, highly interrelated. everything has been done to place those functions such as dining and lobby space as close to the public realm as is possible so the actual ground level facades of this buildings are very pleasant to walk by and are extensively transparent and glazed. there you go, thank you. so many buttons. in view number 21, you can see the impact of that at night, really a beacon on the street, a huge improvement in terms of

visability and comfort and access point. in the middle of that plaza is access to a community room that provides for the architecture of that grade change. so major staircases, community activities, fountains, benches, and plant material will highlight that space. we turn to 22. we're moving to van ness and geary. again, two buildings on this site, the first of which is the first service hospital at van ness and geary, 555 beds, 15 stories tall, 513 parking spaces are provideded in two below grade levels underneath the hospital. it will be a hub for cpmc for both local and regional services. the second building is a multidisciplinary clinic and medical office building. it's located across the east side of@ memorandum office building across the east side of van ness and geary, 250,000 square

feet, rising to nine stories, will provide 540 below-grade parking spaces and there is a proposed tunnel connecting those two buildings below grade sub is grade to van ness avenue. sheet number 23 shows a view of the medical office building we're now standing on the south west corner of the intersection at geary and van ness and you're looking to the navy. so the concordia club is in the rear of that rendering and you can see the gradient sort of rising from the east on geary to the west, to cathedral hill. thing about -- building itself is sub divided into a number of vertical components. this is a case where there is one context directly on van ness where the building is strong, very organized in three parts, the setback at the top in appropriate scale and then turns into a series of interconnected staggered masses as it comes down geary in

scale. those masses are rendered in a variety of materials and in this case because of the character of the neighborhood we're using architectural concrete, metal panel, and a varied number of glassy curtain walls. you can see from the davies residential neighborhood through van ness and geary, befits a broader avenue. number 23 -- 24 is the view of the hospital at van ness and geary. standing on the corner of post and van ness and we are looking back to the southwest and you are seeing an effort in the hospital to model the massing very dramatically. we're right across the street from the burnham building and this is a particular view and we are extending the lower street line of van ness and a portion of the building that rises to about 63 feet which

comprises the large majority of the van ness facade, the hospital then rises up toward franklin in two-story lifts and becomes about a 65-foot building along the franklin post corner. the entire ivet the medical-surgery bed tower which is divided into a number of different components to moduleate its scale so that it fits into the bigger scale of geary it is placed at the extreme southern side of the site. what that does for us is mitigate the amount of shadow falling off the building site itself. it also has a very salutory effect internl by. -- internally. it provides the elevator platform in the lower portion of the hospital, very efficient as a way to deliver high-quality medical care and actually serves to shrink the

overall massing of the building by the placement of the tower. turning to sheet 25, you see the site plan of both the medical office building and the van ness geary hospital. van ness is at the santa -- center of this be drawing and we're looking north in the drawing. the mental again, the commitment to sustainability. there say large roof scape. the lower sections along post, those are going to be used for extensive green roofs to manage both the water falling on the site and to retain and reufse it but also to provide a wonderful, calming environment for patient care within the building itself. there has been a he great deal of effort to provide very viable, friendly walkable street scapes along all seven faces of the site. again the blue arrows on van ness are fairly extensive group of retail frontages. franklin generally has at least

from the hospital 9 most of the systems organized loading and emergency access, the e.d. plaza which you will see is in the upper left hand corner of the site plan. cedar street is completely reimagined from cedar alley to a new major public throw fare. if -- thorough fare. if we turn to page 27, you can see on in view we're looking north on van ness. the burnham is to the rear of this rendering and you're standing at the southeast corner of the intersection of geary and van ness. the hospital again is scaled both, we believe, correctly and -- in the placement and modulation of its tower but also in the placement of the podium. the lower levels and diagnostic and treatment levels of the building. here you can see the positive impacts of that 63-foot silhouette, the very low

profile line. we're actually looking at the main lobby corner of the noss this rendition. if you turn over to sheet number 28, the facades of the hospital are a mixture of granite near the base of the building, matte color finish metal panels for much of the opaque wall surfaces and extensive use of glazing. hospitals of this type have a relatively modest amount of window area required for the room itself and relatively high floor to floor so the kurt tane wall, if you will, rising up in these renderings is our way of defusing the kind of scale and impact of that tower, giving it a little bit of lightness it might not otherwise have were it rendered in opaque material the this particular material where you can see the lights on, that is our family rooms. there are two per floor. the view of this side of the building shows the main lobby at its base, that's a 37-foot-

tall main lobby that provides for grade changes. we move uphill and extend about half the pass -- facade on geary to the main auto drop-off. then there are a series of views of the building projecting on. if you look at view 29, we are on the top of the store across the street. this is franklin off to your right and post off to your left so the burnham is in the left hand portion of this rendering and we're looking roughly southeast and you can see in this case the care to keep the portion of the building immediate -- immediately adjacent to the burnham as low as possible. again, it rises to about 65 feet off the corner and that is actually a reduction of about 30 feet off the current office building. so even though the tower of the medical-surgical bedrooms rises higher than the existing buildings on the site, the

actual buildings adjacent to burnham are lower and that will mitigate the sun impacts. the key feateer -- feature it a very large lail -- scale drop-off which provides a way down to van ness and a shortcut and opening in what is a relatively mean and unsafe current corner of the site. if we turn to page 31, we've moved downhill on geary. we're looking now back toward the west, which is uphill and you can see in the fore ground the medical office building. and it is very clear in this view that the stepping of those masses we believe is successful and kind of garnering the height, if you will, of these buildings to fit into cathedral hill itself. so if -- in this particular

rendition the medical building steps up toward van ness. you can see the gap of van ness very closely. then the hospital is in the rear of this view as you move up toward the crest of the hill on franklin. again the m.o.b. will be using a variety of concrete finishes, metal and glass finishes in the same vein, closely related to the hospital but not mimicking the hospital, we had a very interesting discussion with staff if you look at page 32, over the course of a long period of -- period of time about how these should be cousin buildings and not sister bls, so we wanted a character both compatible but at the same time each with its own identity. so the view again back from that corner at vanness and geary looking northeast, you can see that rendition with the medical office building coming up to the street and then the final view in in sheet 33. this is actually from the terrace of the burnham and you're looking across in the

fore ground. the lower levels of the hospital. there is a preliminary of a green roof on the o.r. portion of the hospital. the hospital tower to the rear. and then the m.o.b. you will see clearly in this drawing next tosh the concordia club with its large scale setback along van ness and the discreet building massing stepping down as you go down the hill, city hall in the contrary -- rear. this kind of view we're really looking south along van ness avenue. if you turn to sheet 35, there's been a very large commitment to expanding the public realm around all of these buildings. things like san jose avenue i think are going to be huge improvements to current conditions. the same was true at the van ness geary site. this is a detailed site plaven the hospital and you are seeing 3 feet of grade change in one drawing so it's a little tough

to represent but is the message is that in all cases we're trying to expand the public realm, sidewalks by lane takings, by reducing surface parking spaces, to provide everywhere we can an extra eight to 10 to 12 feet of sidewalk area, plantings, benches, tree cover -- cover where there is none now. organizeally franklin is on the left. you can see the gray striated area in the drawing. it will provide not only automobile but pedestrian access at that corner which i think will take a lot of the stigma off getting around that very tight setting the both at the top of this drawing and geary are parks, rain spt water gardens between the existing sidewalks and the continuation of the curb. there are green screen walls to mitigate against the walls of the actual hospital. if -- in the middle of this be

drawing is the automobile drop-off. now about 18 feet down from the left hand side of this drawing. this will be an environment that will take care of all car access to the site and provide relief for our loading and provide garage access so this drop-off is extensive and really becomes the main lobby for the building at this level 78 in all cases loading on the sites has been completely internalized. same is the case here. et -- our loading docks on frank lynch -- franklin are head in and head out and the same is true on st. luke's. at the right, you see the main abscess point off van ness, which extends the street scape into the building and the quality and scale of the linear park. there are now a couple of renderings there -- that are a walking tour of the proposal on vanness. if you tur