S.F. community groups trying to stop UCSF s expansion of Parnassus campus
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UCSF’s Parnassus Heights campus.Santiago Mejia / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
Three organizations filed separate lawsuits Friday in an effort to stop UCSF from building a 2 million-square-foot hospital and academic facility expansion at its historic Parnassus campus.
The groups that filed lawsuits in Alameda Superior Court San Franciscans for Balanced and Livable Communities, the Parnassus Neighborhood Coalition and the Yerba Buena Neighborhood Consortium seek to overturn a decision by the University of California Board of Regents to allow the Parnassus expansion to go forward.
They argue that constructing a large, regional hospital on a dense hillside sandwiched between two residential neighborhoods would have severe environmental impacts on everything from traffic to air quality to public transportation. They argue that the impact of the project was not adequatel