CALENDAR
IMPORTANT DATES
2/10/21 - City Council Meeting (6 pm, City Council Chambers) - City Council will hold their regular meeting via teleconference. When the agenda is available, it will be posted here. Public comments will be accepted but must be submitted via email, as it is likely that chambers will be closed to the public because of COVID-19.
2/18/21 - Planning Commission Meeting (6 pm, City Council Chambers) The Planning Commission will hold their regular meeting via teleconference. This is a VERY IMPORTANT meeting, as they will be deliberating on whether or not to recommend the CNU hospital project to the City Council. Residents may make public comments so please consider participating in this virtual meeting.
Simply email the Clerk at pcsecretary@elkgrovecity.org with your phone number and a request to speak during this agendized matter. Sometime after the item has been introduced, the Clerk will call the number provided, and you will able to speak and be heard by everyone participating in the meeting. You may also provide written comments via the same email address up until 4:00 PM on the day of the Planning Commission meeting.
IMPORTANT TO NOTE: THIS IS NOT A "DONE DEAL" BUT WE MUST MAKE OUR VOICES HEARD AT CITY COUNCIL, PLANNING COMMISSION AND OTHER PUBLIC MEETINGS AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.
the project as we now know it
CNU's plans for a medical complex include:
- 12-story hospital with a helistop and a penthouse
- additional 7-story patient tower which would increase the bed count from 250 to 400
- 29,300 sq. ft. central plant
- 3 parking structures, two of which would be four stories in height and one of which would include basketball, tennis and volleyball courts for student use on the roof level, nearest to homes in the Stonelake community
- 4-story out-patient clinic
- 5-story medical office building
- 5-story dormitory to house 300 students with only 150 parking spaces allotted for them.
Additionally, CNU representatives have confirmed their purchase of two nearby parcels off Maritime Drive. They claim they have no plans for how to use that property.
In spite of city officials and the city website stating the hospital would be 10-stories tall, plans submitted and available for viewing as of 4/15/19 indicate that it would, in fact, be 12-stories tall with an additional 55' high metal panel wall on top. A helipad would also reside on top of the hospital. This is yet another example of the inaccurate and ever-changing statistics we have been provided by CNU and our local government
The lack of transparency and the distribution of false facts has been a major concern ever since CNU announced their plans for the medical complex at a press conference on 12/20/18. From the size of the structure to, most notably, the greatly exaggerated projected jobs creation number of 24,000 over the next 10 years, CNU representatives and city officials have enjoyed the impressiveness of these falsehoods. The jobs creation number has been slashed to 1,400 and CNU representatives now admit that these are merely "internal estimates" based on their hopes and aspirations and not on any official studies. Both CNU and city officials further state that only "6 or 7" businesses would be displaced and or/destroyed, when in fact, that number is fifteen.
Greatest concerns expressed by the community so far include:
- Lack of transparency on behalf of CNU and city officials/unwillingness to correct false data and “misquotes” via the media
- A facility even more expansive than originally disclosed elevates residents' concerns
- Financial failure, similar to the Elk Grove “Ghost Mall”, would leave behind an eyesore/empty shell of a hospital that would ultimately need to be demolished
- Displacement and/or destruction of local small-businesses
- Unreliable jobs projections, based on the original 24,000 being revised to only 1,400 over the next 10 years
- A hospital more than 6x higher than the tallest homes in the West Elk Grove/destruction of the aesthetics of the surrounding area
- Unsustainable traffic increases along Elk Grove Blvd., at the on-ramp and off-ramp of I-5 and on one of three main arteries into the Stonelake residential community
- An influx of indigent population needing emergency care
- Parking overflowing onto community streets
- Major safety concerns for nearby schools
- Negative impacts on the natural environment
- Lack of security available to accommodate the heightened safety risks
GET INVOLVED AND SEE HOW YOU CAN HELP HERE.