3 SF neighborhood groups sue to stop UCSF Parnassus Heights expansion
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The front entrance at the Parnassus Heights campus of the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) hospital.Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images
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Three separate San Francisco neighborhood organizations on Friday filed separate lawsuits against the University of California over plans to expand UCSF s Parnassus Heights campus.
UCSF s Comprehensive Parnassus Heights Plan aims to transform UCSF s Helen Diller Medical Center, complete with a much larger hospital, updated care facilities, and new research labs and classrooms. UC regents approved the massive project back in 2018.
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
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