Proposed Project Details
Below is an update to the proposed details of the project
April 2009
REVISIONS TO PROPOSED PROJECT
As a result of feedback from Planning Commission, City Council members and city staff, combined with community concerns, the project proposal that PAMF will present to the Sunnyvale Planning Commission and City Council will be downsized from the previously proposed project.
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DIMENSIONS REDUCED
The Palo Alto Medical Foundation's initial project proposal was to build a three-story, 150,000 square-foot medical center with an underground parking lot, and a four-level above ground parking structure.
Many neighbors were concerned about the height of the clinic and parking structure. We took this feedback into account, re-evaluated the architectural designs and have eliminated 30,000 square feet total from the structure. The revised proposal is for a 120,000-square-foot medical center with two full stories (103,500 sq. ft.) at a height of 38 feet, and a pavilion in the center of the building (16,500 sq. ft.) at a height of 52 feet to house obstetrics and gynecology services. The adjusted total square footage now proposed is 120,000 square feet, reduced from the 150,000 sq. ft. initially proposed.
We reduced the size of the proposed medical center by eliminating 30,000 square feet that was dedicated to the Vision Care Center. This was not an easy decision to reach but the Vision Care Center is the least reliant on primary care and ancillary services, like the laboratory, to be provided at this site. A search for an alternate site for this important department will begin shortly.
By reducing the size of the clinic, we are able to reduce the size of the proposed parking structure from four to two levels at a total height of 16 feet. There will also be two floors of patient parking under the clinic. This modified plan allows for the city's required five parking stalls for every 1,000 square feet of the medical clinic, so the smaller structure will still eliminate the historic parking shortage and mitigate concerns from neighbors about cars parking in the surrounding neighborhood.
Plans for the renovated Sunnyvale Center do not include Urgent Care or After-Hours services, so medical center operations will be during standard business hours -- 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on weekdays.
The clinical buildings currently at 201 and 401 Old San Francisco Road will remain as they are. 
Original view from the north
Revised view from the north
Original view of parking structure
Revised view of parking structure
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