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existing technology and equipment in a practical and cost effective manner. • To consolidate most of Kaiser Permanente's Redwood City treatment and sup ort functions at a single Medical Center location. • To provide facilities to meet changing health care demands and practices. • To replace the inpatient facility at the Redwood City Hospital in accordance with SB 1953 in order to create a new, seismically safe, inpatient medical facility for Kaiser Permanente members and the Redwood City community. • To provide the functional and operational relationship and adjacencies paramount for delivery of quality care. These relationships and adjacencies are based on the need for collaboration and coordination of multiple teams of specialists, to provide the quality outcome necessary to patients in critical conditions and save their lives. • To maintain Kaiser's Redwood City Hospital at its present regional location, where it serves an important role as a resource for Kaiser Permanente members and to the Redwood City community. • To provide a campus which is compatible with Redwood City's objectives and design guidelines for the downtown area. • To provide a campus environment that is easy to negotiate for both pedestrians and vehicles, by creating open spaces and pedestrian walkways with clearly recognizable destination points, building entrances, landmarks, and street crossings to orient people to Medical Center programs. • To provide a minimum project footprint of 140,000 square feet. • To establish a central downtown public gathering space that serves as a focal point for the community; • To create and define an accessible, safe, attractive and convenient downtown; and • To focus the location and orientation of new Kaiser Campus buildings towards the Downtown District and to strengthen pedestrian connections from the Kaiser campus to the Downtown through thoughtful site planning. kill