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7A Page 3 drop-off area on Veterans Blvd. QoeninQ of Marshall Court Cul-Oe-Sac: Kaiser also proposes to open the Marshall Court cui du sac to allow both pedestrian and vehicular access into the Kaiser campus. This change will increase access options from the City's Downtown into the campus which is consistent with Precise Plan circulation policies. Relocation of Ambulance Drop-off Area to Veterans Blvd: The Kaiser Precise Plan recommends that emergency vehicle access be provided from streets other than Main and Maple and from streets that do not provide primary access to parking or building drop-off areas. Walnut Street is recommended. Kaiser proposes to locate the hospital's ambulance access area off of Veterans Boulevard (separate from the Walnut Street ED patient drop-off/walk-in area) which is generally consistent with the Precise Plan goal described above because this location does not conflict with access points to the new hospital's primary entrance, ED entrance or ED parking lot. Relocation of Walnut Street Emeraencv Deoartment (ED) drop-off /walk-in area: While the ED's protected circular drive and building entrance are relocated further north on Walnut Street, its driveway entrance is in the same location as anticipated in the Kaiser Precise Plan. The ED's redesign will therefore not affect any turning movements at the intersection. Walnut Street - Revised Setback and Street Frontaae Improvements: The Kaiser Precise Plan requires a 14 to 20 foot setback/build-to line. The design of the ED circular drive drop- off and walk-in area and the narrowing of Walnut Street right-of-way has resulted instead in an expanded 35 to over 60 foot setback. Walnut Street frontage improvements are also required to include 10-12 foot wide sidewalks with a 4-foot raised seat walll planter. Kaiser instead proposes 6-foot wide sidewalks in between two planter strips. This change is necessary to address, among other things, unanticipated underground utilities that could preclude Kaiser)s ability to install required street trees. A positive outcome of this redesign is that Walnut Street sidewalks will have a double row of street trees. The project as proposed will also comply with Kaiser Precise Plan Walnut Street frontage improvements that promote traffic calming and pedestrian safetyl connectivity through the narrowing of Walnut Street and the addition of a bulbout at the intersection of Veterans Blvd. and Walnut Street. Veterans Blvd. - Revised Setback and Street Frontaae Improvements: The Kaiser Precise Plan also recommends that Veterans Blvd. maintain a 22-foot minimum building setback (as measured from back of sidewalk); a two foot setback is also potentially allowed provided that the building does not exceed two stories in height within the reduced setback area. While Kaiser proposes to provide the required 10-foot sidewalk and 8-foot wide planter strip along the Veterans Blvd. street frontage (from the Redwood Creek culvert near Main Street to Maple Street), they are requesting a four foot building setback for the two and six story portions of the hospital fronting on Veterans Blvd. Staff evaluated the reduced Veteran Blvd. setback and considered the following: 1) the new hospital will generally align with Kaiser's existing Cypress medical building and Veterans Blvd. parking structure; 2) the hospital's height is reduced to two stories at the