UCSF proposes 10-room outpatient clinic at Hilltop

The University of California, San Francisco, is seeking to open a general outpatient medical clinic in a vacant commercial space on Hilltop Mall Road, with the Richmond Planning Commission scheduled to take up the proposal on April 16.

The commission will consider a conditional use permit that would allow UCSF to operate a clinic inside a 5,013-square-foot ground-floor tenant space at the former AAA office at 3060 Hilltop Mall Road. The building currently houses the SGI-USA Buddhist Center and the Asian Pacific Environmental Network's Richmond office. City planning staff are recommending approval.

If approved, the clinic would include ten exam rooms, three private offices, a nurse's station, a reception area, a waiting room, a clinical laboratory, and a staff break room. The facility would employ 15 people and serve patients Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., with no overnight operations.

The 2.27-acre property sits in the Hilltop District neighborhood and is zoned CM-5 Commercial Mixed-Use. The building's existing 87-space parking lot exceeds the minimum 68 spaces required when accounting for all tenants.

A site map showing the location of 3060 Hilltop Mall Road in Richmond's Hilltop District, where UCSF is proposing to open an outpatient medical clinic. The 2.27-acre parcel sits west of Blume Drive and north of Hilltop Drive, adjacent to Aspire Public School to the west and Enterprise Rent-a-Car to the east.

Planning staff wrote that the use would provide "a regional-serving institution within a major activity center, consistent with the intent of the CM-5 Zoning District." Staff also noted the clinic would complement nearby facilities at the Hilltop Medical Plaza and that "providing an additional health service would reduce long-distance trips to access medical care."

Staff further wrote that approval would allow "a vacant tenant space to be filled with a productive and beneficial service in the area."

The project requires only interior tenant improvements and has been deemed categorically exempt from California Environmental Quality Act review. No expansion of the building footprint is proposed.

One condition attached to the recommended approval would require the property owner to submit a revised landscape and irrigation plan before receiving a certificate of occupancy, as the site was found to be out of compliance with the city's landscaping regulations.

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