Sutter Health Hospital Project

The proposed Sutter Health regional medical complex in Emeryville is slated for construction from 2028 to 2033 at the 12-acre site between Horton St., Hollis St., Stanford Ave., and 53rd St. The project includes a 17-story hospital with a helipad, several medical and administrative buildings, workforce housing, and a garage within the project’s Horton St., Hollis St., Stanford Ave., and 53rd St. boundaries.

The project will also add an estimated 20,000 vehicle trips per day to the area.

How will this affect Golden Gate?

Sutter’s plan relies on Golden Gate’s arterials—53rd Street, Stanford and San Pablo Avenues—to provide access to the Sutter complex for emergency vehicles, patients, and staff. Key public concerns focus on the potential environmental impacts of increased traffic and 6+ years of heavy construction, including hazardous road conditions, noise from ambulance traffic and helicopters, and air pollution.

Residents speak out, the City of Oakland listens

On September 10, 2026, Golden Gate residents attended the GGCA-sponsored Community Forum to inform City of Oakland panelists about project-related impacts that should be included in the City’s official input to the Environmental Impact Report (EIR) process, which is now underway.

Panelists included Department of Planning and Building Director William Gilchrist and Planning Manager Pete Vollmann; Department of Transportation (OakDOT) Policy Advisor Ricki Wells; District 1 Councilmember Zac Unger; and Din Didić, Special Assistant to the Mayor.

Participants predicted that existing hazardous road conditions and traffic noise on the arterials’ residential stretches where they live would be significantly worsened by Sutter’s projected:

  • 20,000 additional vehicle trips per day in the area, with 1,500 to 1,800 trips per hour during peak periods
  • 24×7, high-speed emergency vehicle traffic
  • 12,060 visitors and 2,814 employees accessing the complex daily
  • Onsite parking for just 1,992 paid spaces, leading to widespread parking on residential streets
  • 11 shuttles serving employee off-site parking facilities at Alta Bates Berkeley and Alta Bates Summit Oakland, operating every five minutes during peak hours and every 20 minutes during off-peak hours, from 4:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., with on-call service from 9:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m.
  • Four to eight larger shuttles operating every 15 minutes, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for employees and visitors traveling to and from the Emeryville Amtrak Station, MacArthur BART Station, and West Oakland BART Station

The City’s response
Planning & Building staff documented community input to include in the City’s response to the EIR scoping request, which was due on September 14.  View all scoping requests submitted by the City, 60 residents, and public agencies identifying everything that must be studied as part of the EIR.

Ricki Wells assured participants that OakDOT has assigned staff to focus on Sutter-related impacts and recommended that community members:

  • Keep reporting existing transportation safety issues and advocating for safety improvement projects, as the community successfully did for the major road diet project on Martin Luther King Jr. Way, which is about to begin construction.
  • Provide input on the Transportation element of Oakland’s General Plan Phase 2 beginning this December.
  • Attend the City of Emeryville’s Sutter-related public meetings to voice concerns as Oakland residents.

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