Draft Environmental Impact Report
Project Description: The Project site is the campus of Barlow Respiratory Hospital, located at 2000 Stadium Way in the Silver Lake-Echo Park-Elysian Heights Community Plan Area of the City of Los Angeles. The Project site occupies two parcels bisected by Stadium Way and totaling 25 acres, and is developed with 39 buildings and structures built between 1915 and 1972; surface parking; and landscaped areas as well as undeveloped open space. The total square footage of the existing on-site buildings is approximately 138,380 square feet. Barlow Hospital has operated medical facilities in this location since 1902.
The Project proposed replacement of the existing 49-bed hospital facility with a new 56-bed acute care hospital in compliance with SB 1953, the State’s Hospital Facilities Seismic Safety Act, as well as a 24-bed subacute care skilled nursing facility, and administration and support facility. Proposed hospital facilities would total approximately 131,000 square feet and would be located on a 3.25-acre portion of the Project site. Eleven existing buildings on the Project site would be retained and adaptively reused by the hospital and for community use. The remainder of the Project site would be subdivided into 13 parcels and redeveloped with 888 multi-family residential dwelling units including at least a 10 percent set-aside for low-income households and totaling approximately 1,065,600 square feet; approximately 15,000 square feet of neighborhood-serving commercial uses; and 1,552 parking spaces. Development on-site following Project buildout would total approximately 1,211,115 square feet. The Project site is listed on the California Register of Historical Resources, designated as City of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 504, and has been determined eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places as an Historic District. Project implementation would demolish 28 buildings on-site, including 21 contributing buildings and landscape features to the Historic District.
Review Locations: The environmental impact report is available for review at the Department of City Planning, 200 North Spring Street, Room 750, Los Angeles, CA 90012 and at the following libraries:
- 1. Central Library - 630 W. Fifth St, Los Angeles, CA 90071
- 2. Arroyo Seco Regional Library - 6145 N. Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, CA 90042
- 3. Echo Park Branch Library - 1410 W. Temple Street, Los Angeles, CA 90026
- 4. Edendale Branch Library - 2011 W. Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles
Please direct your comments to:
- Diana Kitching
- Los Angeles Department of City Planning
- 200 North Spring Street, Room 750
- Los Angeles, CA 90012
- (213) 978-1343 (fax)
- diana.kitching@lacity.org
Circulation Period: April 26, 2012 - June 11, 2012 at 4 PM.
