somewhere, which i have not seen in the diagram. yes, that issue has been raised many times. it is an issue of concern for people on how the construction would interface. i do not have the specifics of construction for cpmc or the van ness projects. i am sure other colleagues of mine could answer that question, maybe at a later point. good morning. michael schwartz with the san francisco transportation authority. project manager for planning and environmental review on the van ness brt project. we have been moving forward with this schedule, and we will be in front of the commission on may 10 with a recommendation for the locally preferred alternative. our construction scheduling is becoming more solidified. it will not be across the entire corridor for the length of construction. it will be different blocks as we move up and down the two-mile sequence. as we further design construction details, we will be working closely with cpmc to ensure that they re not conflicts or
will be demolished. after is demolished, cpmc will construct a new five-story medical office building at the corner of cesar chavez and valencia. on the west side of the van ness, between geary and post, cpmc proposes construction of a new 555 bed full-service acute- care hospital. 15 stories and approximately 265 feet tall. across the street, the east side of the van ness, cmc proposes construction of a new nine- story, approximately 130-foot tall medical office building. the two new buildings will be connected underground by a tunnel at the garage level. once construction is complete, cpmc plans to transfer the acute-care services at the california pacific campuses to the new cathedral hills hospital. at the davies campus, and a portion of the surface parking lot, cpmc proposes construction of a new four-story medical office building, the neuroscience institute. this project was originally approved by the planning commission in 2007. it was overturned by the board of superv
francisco since we are, san francisco is a population of, with a greater proportion of retiring people and we need those skilled nursing beds. if we don t have those skilled nursing beds or enough met in san francisco, we will have to go outside san francisco to get our care for medicare patients and we need skilled nursing. so this is still a concern with the nurses and i would like you to please look at that carefully, that portion carefully since we do talk a lot about births and heart attacks and the more glamorous parts of the nursing in the hospital and i don t want to see the elderly and the medicare and the medical patients neglected here. thank you. president fong: is there any additional public comment? ok. seeing none [laughter] president fong: the six-hour public comment session is closed. [applause] president fong: there are a number of speaker cards that didn t turn up. i ll be sure to pass these along to the commissioners. we ll open it up for commissioner qu
and we have provisions for that if it were to happen. the other thing is the master plan for health, and the question that some people have brought up is the delay that we can t really afford with the seismic question, and it could be a few years before we have the plan city-wide. 33% or more come from outside san francisco. we have a patient base that transcends and franciscos needs, and those needs have to be met equally by all the hospitals here, and we re building a new one out of mission bay right now. i am in favor of moving this forward and it is good to look at san francisco s needs city- wide in a health care master plan, but it does not control individual hospitals. of the master plan is not anticipated to be final for about another year. held the san francisco, understand the northeast medical service is one of the biggest providers for healthy san francisco. from what i have been told, they have the largest share of the healthy san francisco patients. i believ
leverage production to have to be as quick and low impact as possible for that portion of the van ness brt construction. and that commissioner miguel: i assume there will be a lot of trucks running between the two of you. there are fewer trucks with the van ness brt because we do not have excavation needs. but, yes, we will be coordinating closely. there is a traffic management plan. we re working closely with caltrans as well, and they re very concerned with what the traffic sequencing will be along van ness avenue during construction. this is something that is very exciting, but we re getting much more zeroed in on with the construction phase will look like, and we will get many more details of how we will be coordinating the cpmc and for the van ness brt implementation in general. commissioner miguel: very good. i approve i presume there will be a great deal of more detail on may 10. correct. commissioner antonini: i would like to jump back to health care for a s