ST. JOHN'S SEEKS TO EXPAND - YOUR ACTION NEEDED - Santa Monica Mid City Neighbors

ST. JOHN'S SEEKS TO EXPAND - YOUR ACTION NEEDED

12/3/2016

St. John's Hospital will be rebuilding and adding to the existing facility located in our Mid City neighborhood between Broadway and Arizona and 20th Street to 23rd Street. Currently the project entails approximately 800,000 square feet and 19 years to build. The project comes before City Council this Tuesday, December 6, 2016. St. John's is asking for a time extension for project completion. Please share your thoughts, suggestions, concerns, requests and ideas regarding community benefits and the request for extension.
Santa Monica Mid City Neighbors Board of Directors is seeking your input.
Thank you very much for your community involvement.
See you down the road,
Stacy

1 Comment

Daniel Galamba link

12/5/2016 05:36:41 pm

If Development Agreement is to be renegotiated should be on basis that community can live with

1998 Agreement done after 1994 earthquake. Concessions made to keep St John’s solvent. St John’s solvent now, no danger of going under

799,000 square feet larger than Hines Project that ultimately rejected after referendum. 799,000 square feet way too large and area can’t support it

St John’s should have human sized buildings similar to those of Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara rather than UCLA Medical Center in Westwood. This really to advantage of St John’s, their patients, staff and our community. Also patients prefer St John’s to UCLA Medical Center because St John’s more human scaled with better personal service

Choke points exist in traffic at Santa Monica Bl and Cloverfield as well as Broadway and Cloverfield

During rush hour traffic bumper to bumper on Broadway between Cloverfield and 20th St if not beyond. Also case on Cloverfield from Santa Monica Bl to freeway and on 20th St from Santa Monica Bl to Olympic

Can’t handle traffic and congestion we have already let alone additional traffic that 800,000 square feet of development will create. This one of the main reasons why Hines Project was eventually rejected

St John’s wants 20 year blank check to complete construction of buildings. Anything can happen over 20 years. Situation now quite different than in 1996. Situation probably will be quite different 20 years from now

Individual building approval should be done as need arises over 20 years using current standard approval process-obtain Development Review Permit for each building, then obtain a building permit for that building within 18 months after the Development Review Permit and then completion of that building within 5 years after building permit-but no open ended blank checks good for 20 years

Planning Commission also supported this approach

S5 Visitor Housing building on Broadway is proposed as 6 stories, 73 feet high. Not consistent with S2 Multifamily Housing building and S1 Child and Family Development Center both of which are 3 stories. Broadway is a small street with one lane of traffic in each direction. 6 story building on Broadway not compatible with neighborhood. Request S5 Visitor Housing Building also be 3 stories, 36 feet high

Closing off existing 21st St to thru traffic defeats the purpose of adding 2 new streets-20th Place and 22nd St. Therefore keep 21st St open to thru traffic

St John’s proposes that only 2 of their 10 replacement housing units be deed-restricted, violates the 30% rule. Make 3 of the 10 units deed-restricted

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