DTNA NEEDS YOUR HELP

New Medical Office Building at CPMC Davies Campus

Three years ago, DTNA and the Buena Vista Neighborhood Association established a Joint Community Task Force to work with CPMC to address the communities' desires and concerns about the development of a new medical office building at the Davies campus. The design of the building is Hearing completion and the City Planning Department has begun its review. While the Joint Community Task Force and CPMC have worked hard to resolve many of the com-munit/s concerns, the Task Force has been unable to resolve the following outstanding issues with CPMC:

Shadows on Noe Street: The fourth floor of the new building will cast additional shadows onto the sidewalks/ street and residences along Noe Street. The Community Task Force has worked with CPMC's design team to come up with a slight modification of the fourth-floor design to reduce the shadowing impact. However, CPMC is not willing to commit to the change.

Parking: The City Planning Department has prepared an independent analysis of the parking and traffic impacts resulting from the new building. The department's analysis projects a deficit of parking spaces on the Davies campus, which will increase the demand for staff, patient and visitor parking in the surrounding neighborhood. As CPMC has not yet proposed a complete plan to mitigate the parking deficit, the Community Task Force remains concerned about the impact to the neighborhood.

Public landscaping improvements: To mitigate the impacts of the building's mass on Noe Street, the Community Task Force was successful in negotiating sidewalk widening and landscaping improvements along the entire length of Noe Street from 14th Street to Duboce Avenue. This will continue the Noe Street landscape design from south of 14th Street. As CPMC updates its construction cost estimates for the new medical building, they are indicating they may not be able to commit to providing these public improve-ments. The Community Task Force is not willing to accept the medical building project if CPMC decides to delete or reduce the scope of these important improvements for the community. If you are concerned about these community issues, please support the Community Task Force by attending the community meeting on Jan. 9th to voice your concerns to CPMC.

Market/Octavia Better Neighborhood Plan

A neighborhood task force has been meeting to review the Market/Octavia Better Neighborhood Plan and develop a list of neighborhood concerns for specific issues in the plan. Your input has helped the task force address those concerns. DTNA and the city's Planning Department will hold the next community meeting at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 19, in the CPMC Davies Auditorium.

The November DTNA newsletter requested residents to rank their concerns for Duboce Triangle. Please see the results in this newsletter. You might be surprised about what your neighbors consider important issues for the neighborhood.

DTNA Board Election

Our first order of business at the community meeting will be voting for DTNA officers and board members. I encourage you to consider the following candidates, confirm the current at-large members and elect a new at-large member. Mark Paez:

President: Dennis Richards
Vice-President: Eric Dupre
Secretary: Edd Dundas
Treasurer: David Troup
Newsletter Editor: Rodd Aubrey
Newsletter Distributor: Tim Weeg.
WebmasterBen Gardiner

The current at-large members include Peter Cohen, Derek Durst, Mark Scheuer, and Jamie Schindler.