2005/12/05 Council Agenda Packet

Yahoo! Mail - hilaryatmehager(a),yahoo.com Page 2 of 2 discussions. Planning staff advised the Hospital that its future expansion should be oriented to Broadway, and that planning staff would not support efforts to expand onto the 13th and Colby site. The City advised the Hospital that it did not want to see significant numbers of pedestrians crossing Colby between Hospital facilities, especially in light of the fact that the Hospital was about to close Wetmore (which had been the only through street east of Colby) thus channeling additional cars onto Colby. The Hospital then considered alternate plans to expand onto a several different blocks, including particularly the 1400 block between Colby and Wetmore. It ultimately selected the 1300 block between Rockefeller and Oakes and began to purchase houses on that block. In the early 1990's, both the Community College and the Hospital announced that they were starting to develop revised master plans_ At that time, City planning staff encouraged the College and Hospital to coordinate their planning and to consider the use of the athletic field by the Hospital. That went nowhere because the Hospital's bed census plummeted and they cancelled their planning process. have never heard the Hospital claim that it had a formal agreement with anyone not to expand west of Colby; their initial effort to put the birthing center there would be inconsistent with any such claim. However, they have repeatedly stated that they acquired the Donovan block after having been told by City planning staff that the City wanted them to direct their expansion to the east, oriented to Broadway. Drew Nielsen Office: (425) 259-6184 Home (425) 258-3333 City Council line (425) 257-8785 httw//nC f417 mail vAnn nnm/vm/Chnwl t*ttPr7}u►r=inhnYRrTVicaTrl=7RF, 7(19,4977 WS 1 1 1 nnnnni