CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER – WEST TOWER PROJECT

Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Report (Final SEIR)

EIR No: ENV 2008-0620-EIR

SCH No: 2008031040

January 2009

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

The Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (CSMC) proposes to develop a new inpatient/medical support facility on the CSMC Campus that would be located on approximately two acres at the northwest corner of Gracie Allen Drive and George Burns Road, which is currently occupied by a two-story building and visitor parking lot.

The project would add 100 new inpatient beds and associated medical center uses within a proposed 460,650 square-foot building (the "West Tower") located at the project site. The West Tower would comprise 200,000 square feet of floor area pursuant to this application, 170,650 square feet of previously approved and vested development remaining (but not yet built) under the previous Master Plan entitlement, and 90,000 square feet of floor area offset from the existing building at 8723 Alden Drive to be demolished for the West Tower. The 200,000 square feet of new floor area within the proposed Project thus represents the "net" Project analyzed in this Final SEIR.

The West Tower is anticipated to be 11 stories and 185 feet high. An attached seven-level parking structure (three subterranean levels, one level at grade and three levels above grade) that will provide approximately 700 parking spaces will also be constructed.

Implementation of the project would require approval of a Zone Change and Height District Change to revise the conditions of the current [T][Q]C2-2D-O zoning designation and an amendment to the existing Development Agreement and Master Plan to permit an additional 100 inpatient beds and ancillary services (equivalent to 200,000 square feet), and parking on the CSMC Campus.

SITE LOCATION

8720 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90048

Council District 5 – Jack Weiss

AVAILABILITY

Hardcopies of the Supplemental Environmental Impact Report (SEIR) are available for review at the following locations:

Department of City Planning

200 North Spring Street, Room 750

Los Angeles, CA 90012

Central Library

630 West Fifth Street

Los Angeles, CA 90071

Fairfax Branch Library

161 South Gardner Street

Los Angeles, CA 90036

Robertson Branch Library

1719 South Robertson Boulevard

Los Angeles, CA 90035

West Hollywood Public Library

715 North San Vicente Boulevard

West Hollywood, CA 90069

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

To view the entire electronic version of the Final SEIR in PDF format, please click here. [11.3 MB]

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COVER PAGE [13.3 KB]

RECOMMENDATION FOR EIR CERTIFICATION [196 KB]

TABLE OF CONTENTS [8.91 KB]

I. INTRODUCTION [26.3 KB]

A. Proposed Project

B. CEQA Requirements

C. Organization of this Final SEIR

II. SUMMARY [136 KB]

A. Project Summary

B. Areas of Controversy and Issues to be Resolved

C. Alternatives to Reduce or Avoid Significant Effects

D. Summary of Project Impacts

E. Mitigation Program

III. CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS TO THE DRAFT SEIR [8.99 MB]

A. Summary

B. Project Description

C. Transportation and Circulation

D. Effects Not Found to be Significant

E. Appendices

IV. COMMENT LETTERS AND RESPONSES TO COMMENTS [1.99 MB]

A. Comment Letter No. 1

B. Comment Letter No. 2

C. Comment Letter No. 3

D. Comment Letter No. 4

E. Comment Letter No. 5

F. Comment Letter No. 6

G. Comment Letter No. 7

H. Comment Letter No. 8

I. Comment Letter No. 9

J. Comment Letter No. 10

V. MITIGATION MONITORING PROGRAM [66.2 KB]

APPENDICES

COVER PAGE [13.3 KB]

TABLE OF CONTENTS [12.6 KB]

APPENDIX A [2.59 MB]

NOTICE OF PREPARATION, INITIAL STUDY, PUBLIC SCOPING COMMENTS

A-1 NOTICE OF PREPARATION (NOP)

A-2 INITIAL STUDY

A-3 NOP WRITTEN COMMENTS

A-4 PUBLIC SCOPING MEETING COMMENTS

APPENDIX B [1.01 MB]

1993 CSMC MASTER PLAN EIR SUMMARY CHART

APPENDIX C [1.00 MB]

1993 CSMC DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT

APPENDIX D [1.12 MB]

AIR QUALITY & NOISE IMPACT REPORT

APPENDIX E [20.8 MB]

TRAFFIC IMPACT STUDY

APPENDIX F [5.52 MB]

ALTERNATIVES - SUPPORTING TECHNICAL ANALYSIS DOCUMENTS

APPENDIX G [72.3 KB]

MITIGATION MONITORING PROGRAM

APPENDIX H [176 KB]

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