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Resolution No. 10133
Resolution of the Council of the City of Palo Alto to Update the Mitigation
Monitoring and Reporting Program for the Stanford University Medical Center
(SUMC) Facilities Renewal and Replacement Project to be Align Mitigation
Measure TR-2.3 with the SUMC Development Agreement Amendment No. 1
R E C I T A L S
On June 6, 2011, the Council of the City of Palo Alto adopted Resolution No 9168 certifying
the adequacy of the Final Environmental Impact Report for the Stanford University Medical
Center Facilities Renewal and Replacement Project (Final EIR) Pursuant to the California
Environmental Quality Act and Adopting the Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program
(MMRP) and the Statement of Overriding Considerations; and
On June 6, 2011, Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Lucile Salter Packard Children’s Hospital,
Stanford University, and the City of Palo Alto entered into a Development Agreement that
allowed Stanford University Medical Center (SUMC Parties) to remodel existing facilities and to
construct new facilities at their campuses in Palo Alto; and
The SUMC Development Agreement is in place for thirty (30) years from the date of
execution, allows for the adjustment of the timing for performance of conditions of approval,
allows for permitted delays in performance caused by force majeure, and allows for SUMC Parties
to develop the project in their sole discretion in accordance with their own time schedule subject
to the terms and conditions of the Development Agreement; and
SUMC Parties claimed a permitted delay in performance of interim and final alternative
transportation mode share targets due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
SUMC Parties filed an application for a Development Agreement amendment (22PLN-
00302) on September 7, 2022 to adjust the timeline by which SUMC is required to achieve their
alternative transportation mode share targets outlined in the Development Agreement Section
5(c)(ix) Monitoring of TDM Programs and, correspondingly, the timing of performance in MMRP
Mitigation Measure TR-2.3; and
SUMC Parties implement one of the most detailed and extensive Transportation Demand
Management (TDM) programs in the City and has historically achieved high rates of SUMC
employee use of alternative transportation modes; and
SUMC Parties will continue to fully implement the requirements outlined in Development
Agreement Section 5(c)(ix) Monitoring of TDM Programs and MMRP Mitigation Measure TR-2.3,
including ongoing implementation of the SUMC TDM program activities, annual monitoring of
SUMC employee use of alternative transportation modes, and annual preparation of the SUMC
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Alternative Mode Share Report; and
The COVID-19 pandemic slowed the ability for SUMC Parties to complete the new
construction and remodeling anticipated to be complete by 2025, as previously analyzed in the
Final EIR and full project build-out for the full SUMC entitled square footage has not yet occurred
and will not occur until after 2025; and
The proposed adjustments to the alternative mode share targets in SUMC Development
Agreement Amendment No. 1 are consistent with the Project analyzed in the Final EIR and will
not result in new potentially significant environmental impacts, a substantial increase in any
previously identified potential environmental impacts, or a misalignment in the previous
evaluation of potential SUMC Project environmental impacts relative to the timing of project
buildout; and
SUMC Development Agreement Amendment Number 1 does not change the approved
SUMC project, nor convey new rights or entitlements that were not previously analyzed; and
On November 27, 2023, the City Council adopted Ordinance No. 5602, approving and
authorizing the Mayor to execute Amendment No.1 to the SUMC Development Agreement;
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NOW THEREFORE, the Council of the City of Palo Alto does RESOLVE as follows:
1. The Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program for the Stanford University
Medical Center (SUMC) Facilities Renewal and Replacement Project shall be updated as shown
in Attachment A, to align Mitigation Measure TR-2.3 with the SUMC Development Agreement
Amendment No. 1.
INTRODUCED: October 23, 2023
PASSED: October 23, 2023
AYES: BURT, KOU, LAUING, STONE
NOES: LYTHCOTT-HAIMS, TANAKA
ABSENT:
ABSTENTIONS: VEENKER
ATTEST:
____________________________ ____________________________
City Clerk Mayor
APPROVED AS TO FORM: APPROVED:
____________________________ ____________________________
Assistant City Attorney City Manager
____________________________
Director of Planning and
Development Services
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Attachment A
STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER FACILITIES RENEWAL AND REPLACEMENT MITIGATION MONITORING AND REPORTING PLAN
(Note: Underline/Strikeout – Edits made to be consistent with SUMC Development Agreement Amendment Number 1)
Mitigation Measures
Monitoring or
Reporting Action
Responsibility Timing Signature/Date Completed
TR-2.3 Enhance Stanford University Transportation
Demand Management (TDM) Program. The SUMC Project sponsors shall enhance the currently implemented
TDM program in order to achieve 35.1
percent usage of alternative transportation modes (i.e.,
carpool, vanpool, bus, Caltrain, bicycle, and walk) by
Hospital employees. The initial enhancements to the
SUMC TDM program shall include the following:
• Commencing on September 1, 2015, the Hospitals
shall purchase annual Caltrain GO Passes (free train
passes) for all existing and new Hospital employees
who work more than 20 hours per week, at a cost of
up to One Million Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars
($1,800,000) per year, which amount shall be
adjusted annually to reflect any change in the San
Francisco Bay Area Consumer Price Index (the “GO
Pass Amount”). The Hospitals’ obligation to
provide GO Passes shall continue for fifty-one (51)
years , or until such earlier date as: (a) Caltrain
discontinues the GO Pass program, or a
substantially similar program; (b) Caltrain increases
the cost of GO Passes, or a substantially similar
program, such that the Hospitals’ annual costs
would exceed the GO Pass Amount; or (c) Caltrain
service is reduced by such an extent that the
Hospitals and the City mutually determine purchase
of annual GO Passes, or a substantially similar
program, would no longer be effective in
substantially reducing Hospital employee peak
Review TDM reports
to verify that enhancements of TDM
program have been
implemented and
determine whether
interim mode split
targets have been
achieved; transmit
TDM reports to City of
Menlo Park for their
review
City and SUMC
Project sponsors will
meet annually to
discuss effectiveness of
enhanced TDM
program and to identify
potential
improvements. SUMC
Project sponsors may modify enhanced TDM
program as needed to
improve its
effectiveness.
Verify lease of 75
parking spaces at
Ardenwood Park and
Ride lot, or an
City of Palo Alto
Department of Planning and
Community
Environment
Baseline TDM report
within six months of SUMC Project
approval
Annual TDM reports
submitted each Spring
Baseline TDM Report
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Signature Date
Spring 2013
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Signature Date
Spring 2014
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Signature Date
Spring 2015
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Signature Date
Spring 2016 ________________________
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Signature Date
Spring 2017
________________________
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Signature Date
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period trips in order to achieve the Alternative Mode
targets in Table 3.4-19A in Section 3 in the Final
EIR. If the cost of obtaining GO Passes exceeds the
GO Pass Amount, the Hospitals shall have the
option to elect either to purchase the GO Passes at
the then applicable price, or to terminate the
obligation to provide GO Passes, or a substantially
similar program. If the Hospitals’ obligation to
provide GO Passes, or a substantially similar
program, terminates for any of the reasons specified
in this measure , the Hospitals shall contribute the
GO Pass Amount to one or more substitute
programs to encourage use of transit by Hospital
employees or otherwise reduce peak period traffic
trips in the intersections impacted by the Project as
identified in the Project EIR, including but not
limited to regional transportations systems or
solutions. The substitute program or programs shall
be mutually agreed upon by the SUMC Parties and
the City’s Director of Planning and Community Environment.
• Use all reasonable efforts to arrange with AC
Transit to lease 75 spaces at the Ardenwood Park &
Ride Lot, or an equivalent facility, to serve SUMC
employees who commute from the East Bay.
• Expand the Marguerite shuttle bus service between
the SUMC and PAITS as needed to accommodate
increased ridership by Hospital employees.
• Use all reasonable efforts to assure that the
controlling transit agency maintains load factors less
than 1.00 on the U-Line.
• Maintain a load factor less than or equal to 1.25 on
the Marguerite shuttle.
equivalent location, at a
cost not to exceed
$45,000 per year.
For U-Line load
factors, verify Initial
Payment offer to AC
transit ($250,000) and
then subsequent annual
payment offers up to
$50,000 total.
Spring 2018
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Signature Date
Spring 2019
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Signature Date
Spring 2020
________________________
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Signature Date
Spring 2021
________________________
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Signature Date
Spring 2022
________________________
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Signature Date
Spring 2023
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Signature Date
Spring 2024
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Signature Date
Spring 2025
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• Expand and improve the bicycle and pedestrian
networks as specified by Project site plans.
• Provide a full-time on-site TDM coordinator by
2015 for the hospital components. The coordinator
would be responsible for organizing and
disseminating TDM information primarily to
hospital employees and also to hospital patients. A
central location would be made available to provide
information on alternative travel modes. Also, the
SUMC or Hospitals’ website would contain
information on TDM programs.
• Provide a guaranteed ride home program for all
employees who use transit and other transport
alternatives like carpool and vanpool. The guarantee
ride home shall allow employees with dependent
children the ability to use alternative modes to travel
to and from work but still be able to travel home
mid-day in case of an emergency.
• Provide employees with shower facilities within the
SUMC Sites to encourage bicycling to work. The
SUMC Project sponsors shall also provide bicycle
storage facilities on the SUMC Sites that would be
conveniently located near the employee showers.
• Establish, in conjunction with the GO Pass
implementation, a “Zip Car” (or other similar carsharing
program) with Zip Cars available at the medical
complex.
• Perform annual TDM monitoring from the date of
initial project approval through the life of the project
(51 years after project approval) and submit the
report to the City of Palo Alto. This report also shall be
submitted to the City of Menlo Park for its review.
Signature Date
Spring 2026
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Signature Date
Spring 2062
________________________
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Signature Date
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• Within six (6) months of project approval, and
annually for a period of fifty-one (51) years from
initial project approval, the SUMC Project sponsors
shall submit to the City’s Director of Planning and
Community Environment, a Hospital TDM Program
Report that shows the current number of employees
employed over 20 hours per week;, the number of
employees using an alternative mode share as
documented by a study or survey to be completed
by the Hospitals using a method mutually agreeable
to the City and Hospitals; and the efforts used by the
Hospitals to attempt to achieve the Alternative
Mode targets.
These enhancements may not immediately change the
mode split for Hospital employees. Further, because
transit use by employees of the Hospitals is voluntary,
and may be influenced by a number of factors outside the
reasonable control of the Hospitals, such as gasoline
prices, costs and availability of alternative transit,
housing costs and availability, and personal preferences of employees, the Hospitals cannot guarantee the results
of their TDM programs.
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The interim targets in Table 3.4-19A in Section 3 in the
Final EIR were previously shall be used to measure the
progress toward meeting the desired mode split by 2025.
The interim and final targets are now as outlined in SUMC
Development Agreement Amendment Number 1,
modifying the targets to be as follows:
The These interim targets assume that in the
early phases of implementation, there may be larger
shifts to alternative modes than the shifts that may occur
in later phases of the TDM program enhancement. For
purposes of calculating alternative mode share, any
mode that does not constitute driving in a single occupant
vehicle to and from the work site shall be
considered an “Alternative Mode,” including
working remotely from home.
For each of the interim target years, following
submission of the Hospitals TDM Annual Report, the
City shall determine if the interim year target has been
met. If the Hospitals have not met the interim target, the
Hospitals and the City shall meet to review the TDM
Program and to identify possible additional TDM
Program enhancements that the Hospitals should
consider incorporating into their TDM Program in order
to increase the Program’s effectiveness.
Excluding the period from 2022 through 2023, during
Target Year Alternative
Mode Share
Percentage
Change
EIR Baseline (2006) 22.9% NA
Project Approval
Baseline (2011)
TBD TBD
2018 30% 7.1%
2021 2024 33% +3%
2025 2026 35.1% +2.1%
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which time this provision shall not apply, if If the Hospitals
do not meet the applicable interim targets
for any two consecutive years prior to 2025 2026, the
Hospitals shall provide alternative transportation funding
to the City of Palo Alto in annual payments in the amount
of $175,000 per year, as adjusted to reflect the change in
the San Francisco Area Consumer Price Index between
January 1, 2025 and the date on which the Annual
Payment is due. The alternative transportation funding
shall be used by the City of Palo Alto for local projects and
programs that encourage citywide use of alternative
transportation mode uses or otherwise reduce peak period
traffic trips in the intersections impacted by the Project as
identified in the Project EIR, including but not limited to
citywide and regional transportation systems and
solutions. The City of Palo Alto should consider
transportation systems and solutions that also help to
reduce traffic in the City of Menlo Park.
If by 2025 the 2026 annual report does not demonstrate that the Hospitals have substantially achieved, the
Hospitals have not demonstrated substantial achievement
of the 35.1 percent target modal split for alternative
transportation modes, the following measure shall be
required:
• The Hospitals shall make a lump sum payment of $4.0
million, as adjusted to reflect the change in the San
Francisco Area Consumer Price Index from January 1,
2025 to January 1 2026, to the City of Palo Alto for local
projects and programs that encourage and improve
citywide use of alternative transportation mode uses or
otherwise reduce peak period traffic trips in the
intersections impacted by the Project as identified in
the Project EIR, including but not limited to
regional transportation systems and solutions. The
City of Palo Alto shall identify capital projects and
program enhancements for which the funds may be
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applied. Sample projects may include contributions
towards regional transportation projects of interest
to the City of Palo Alto and that are identified
within the Valley Transportation Authority – Valley
Transportation Plan or other local planning
documents. The City of Palo Alto should consider
transportation systems and solutions that also help
to reduce traffic in the City of Menlo Park. If
required, said $4.0 million payment, as adjusted by
inflation, shall constitute
funds to be used by the City to offset trips by
Hospital employees through citywide trip reduction.
The $4.0 million payment, as adjusted by inflation, shall
not relieve the
Hospitals of any of their obligations under this
measure, including but not limited to their
obligations to continue to attempt to achieve the
35.1 percent target modal split through
implementation of the GO Pass or substantially
similar program, or a substitute program mutually agreed upon by the Hospitals and the City’s Director
of Planning and Community Environment, which
shall continue for 51 years from the date of Project
approval. Further, the Hospitals shall continue to
implement an enhanced TDM program, monitor
modal splits by Hospital employees, and strive to
maximize use of alternative commute modes by
Hospital employees. In addition, the Hospitals shall
continue to meet with the City on a regular basis to
identify potential improvements to the enhanced
TDM program.
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