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Yesterday Sutter Health announced a major scale back of their controversial hospital project slated for 53rd and Hollis streets. This evolving story represents a major victory for Emeryville Neighbors United, a citizen activist group primarily concerned with stopping or scaling down Sutter and for city council candidate Brandon Soublet who has made Sutter and its myriad civic problems a centerpiece of his campaign.
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WOW. Short comment for a short story.
ReplyDeleteThis is going to divide the town, some people blaming and some people beaming
ReplyDeleteAll hail Brandon, king of the NIMBYs and killer of hospitals.
ReplyDeleteFYI, Mr Soublet has said he does not respond to anonymous questions. He says anyone that will identify themselves will get a response to any questions they might have from him personally.
DeleteI say your NIMBY/YIMBY narrative is doing the corporate world's work. They thank you for that. I'll join in with the narrative because it's fun:
NIMBYs hate 24 hour jackhammer testing facilities in their neighborhood. They hate nuclear waste dump sites being located in their neighborhood. They also hate hospital projects that pay zero taxes taking up a large footprint in their town that bring 20,000 daily vehicle trips and low flying helicopters that shut down newly built bike infrastructure and put children in harm's way at the local school. YIMBYs love all that. If it helps a corporation, YIMBYs love it.
Don't talk that way. People need to stop trying to divide everyone over everything.
ReplyDeleteyou guys are crazy. a bunch of nimby's with nothing to do. That hospital lot is surrounded by pharmaceutical companies and future zoning more pharma, what's the difference. there is no residential there. It's crazy you would reject a world class hospital that could save your life. glad sutter is not putting up with your crap. No that lot is just going to sit empty and vacant there for years instead for serving a purpose.
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DeleteLet me see if I get the calculus here. Once Alta bates is gone the nearest trauma 1 is highland, an additional 20min drive, which can mean life or death. The trade of this so called activist group is making for pushing sutter out is that they keep their streets to bike in. Ha, there’s barely any people on those streets now. there’s more empty parking spaces in Emeryville than residents. The next big one is the building is too high. Omg, it’s not the Empire State Building, who cares, the entire area around that lot are pharma making chemicals, old PGE equipment leaking, train tracks, and every single parcel contaminated with VOCs and oil from shell. Can’t get more industrial than that. So many cars coming in and out is the next one big complaint. The streets in Emeryville are designed for heavy trucking and there is absolutely no traffic in that area. Guess what there could have been a trauma 1 in Emeryville you could walk to. Gosh what a waste. I’m so frustrated with you so called activist. Only thing you did was impeded progress and ensure more people will die in the future on their way to highland. Congrats guys you did it! You should have a big party
DeleteA party: that’s a good idea!
DeleteCommunity push back against Sutter…yes. It’s called ‘democracy’. I understand you are not a fan but we’ll let you come to our pro-democracy party regardless.
Reminder: Sutter did it. This billionaire healthcare company has had 10 years so far to retrofit their Berkeley location. Now they would have you believe the ONLY place they can build a regional medical center is in that tiny brown field in a tiny, quiet city. The money they've invested in convincing you of this self-imposed crisis was, apparently, worth it. Shame on Sutter. Go fix your damn building and stop scaring people.
DeleteLet's talk about that berkeley location. My children were born there. There's barely any parking, much more dense with residential surrounding the site, same issues you would have with any hospital regarding noise. If we want to be fair and concerned about our fellow human beings, why should the folks that live around that hospital have to bear that burden? Wouldn't they have much more reason to not want sutter there? That hospital has been there for decades. If you want to make a fair comparison, the emeryville location is much essential impactful for a whole host of reasons.
DeleteExactly. The Berkeley hospital is already there. It's already their burden. Their chance to prevent it from being built was many years ago. And shame on Sutter for not making it safe.
DeleteMy point is that it would be democratic for everyone to share in the burden that comes with having the benefits of a hospital. But you don't seem to think so. Let someone else keep carrying the load as long as its not you. As someone not born in this country it's shocking to me that there is so much resistance to essential medical services. You only have this stance because of the privileges afforded to you by this country. Imagine if sutter were to say, we're going to blacklist anyone from emeryville and not provide them any services. That would be unthinkable to you. So you tell them scram because you can go to other places, kaisser, etc. Priviledge my friend. It's not endless and don't squander it - you don't know what its like to have nothing.
DeleteAs a senior homeowner who was homeless as a teen, I know quite a bit about having nothing. My insurance won't allow me to go to Sutter facilities. Nobody in my neighborhood is allowed to go to Sutter because of their insurance. Within a 3 block radius of door knocking, we found 2 people who have insurance that lets them go to Sutter and 2 people who work for Sutter. Besides, there is a huge Sutter hospital in Oakland, literally 1.9 miles from where they wanted to build, in addition to their Berkeley campus. Stop trying to blame innocent people in a city that promised them a lifestyle good for people who don't have cars for Sutters self-created situation. Sutter knew this was a contaminated lot filled with benzene that the state forbids hospitals on when they bought it. The city has a right to forbid opening it. The city has a right to maintain the existing zoning. Sutters own human health risk assessment report for that lot is damning and forbids hospitals or housing. Do your homework. This entitled billionaire healthcare company has brainwashed you. Nobody here is against a hospital. We are against pile driving down into a brownfield that you're not supposed to dig beyond 3 ft.down. Sutter owns lots of land, has tons of money, and there are options galore all around. Yes, they should responsibly build a hospital in a safe location nearby to serve their patients. Nobody is arguing that.
DeleteNow instead of a lifesaving hospital we just have a pile of dirt. Can somebody explain how this is good for our downtown area?
ReplyDeleteYou outed yourself with this comment- Emeryville has no downtown area. Where do you live?
DeleteHahaha Sutter troll...let's meet "downtown" and talk about it.
DeleteI am just wondering how many hospitals we really need in Emeryville. Sutter is a great group in the social nonprofit community, and their services cover substantial aide to the medically indigent. They are indeed a sound institution with a mandate for a new location. What Emeryville needs is a workable environment for that particular location; a walkway span over the freeway, for pedestrians and bikes; and community areas for those going to and from the hospital. Hospital buildings tend to be monolithic because that is how they are used to functioning. It would be great to get a seismically sound hospital in the East Bay, but we are still on a liquification zone, so maybe move it eastward. The Emeryville city council could hold an exploratory vision for the site and begin to appeal to investors based on collaboration with tax paying entities and a common good for the city. What would that look like? How will it reach sustainable goals for the city and people? How will it sustain inundation and earthquakes on the Hayward fault? Good luck to Sutter wherever they land. Elisabeth Montgomery
ReplyDeleteKalimah and Brandon citizens unite!
ReplyDeleteAll the politicians are being very secretive and too scared to say why Emeryville was suddenly removed from AB2231 at the very last minute last month. Whoever masterminded that chess move was genius. Made Sutter in 30 days.
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