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BRONXVILLE, N.Y. - The three-story medical addition to Lawrence Hospital in Bronxville received approval for five variances from the Zoning Board of Appeals and is now one step closer to being built. The expansion project now goes back before the Bronxville Planning Board.
The Zoning Board's approval requires that the hospital keep the noise under a certain level and shut off the roof lights at night. The hospital agreed to reduce the expansion's size, saving several trees and setting the hospital back farther from the street.
Each board member weighed the pros and cons in coming to their decision. In the end the board found that the necessity for new operating rooms was essential.
“The hospital’s current emergency rooms use 1950’s technology,” said William Fredericks, board chair for the meeting. “With that you can’t attract the best physicians and you can’t provide the best service.”
The expansion is expected to cost $34 million, and will include a radiation therapy center, a medical oncology infusion center and state-of-the-art operating rooms, said Timothy Hughes, Vice President of Business Development for Lawrence Hospital.
The hospital now has to get the approval of the Planning Board in order to start building its new facility. If it fails to do so it will have to go back to the Zoning Board of Appeals and go through the process again. The Planning Board will re-evaluate all the details of the plan including drainage and utilities in coming to its decision.
“It’s been a very long process to get this far, but Bronxville is a small town, and this is a big project,” Hughes said. “Our goal is to finally get approval so we can start construction and provide the best service as soon as possible.”
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This just in from Helen of Bronxville:
Further, it would be nice if the DailyVoice would do some fact checking.
The hospital has said the project will cost $39.2 million -- 34 is an obsolete
number. This updated figure includes upward of $1 million for infrastructure
that will allow for future expansion of this wing to 6 floors (from basement
plus two levels plus roof penthouse/equipment). The figure does NOT include HVAC and roof mechanicals, likely to cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.
(cf LHC filing with NY State Department of Health).
Oh, and Paul...the next time you are invited by LHC to cover a land use board meeting you should consider speaking with the loyal opposition. One realizes that LHC provides advertising dollars to your site but it might be nice to even feign interest in the opinions of the people on the other side of this story. No one from the Daily Voice has bothered to cover this story over the last several months so your appearance at the ZBA meeting was suspect at best.
There is little question that the Bronxville Planning Board will approve this "big project". The neighbors were told as much before these proceedings even began. The fix was in all along and the taxpayers on the west side were thrown under the bus per usual. No surprises here just more of the same crap we've come to expect from the Village of Bronxville.
Even though the expansion has been in the bag for two years " the planning board loves the project and it's a fait accompli" LHC was unable to retain one of it's best physicians Dr. Helen Pass.
STAMFORD, CT - Stamford Hospital is pleased to announce that Dr. Helen A. Pass has been named Director, Division of Breast Surgery, and Co-Director of the Women’s Breast Center.
Dr. Pass has been recognized nationally as a leader in breast surgery, and is the immediate past chairman and a past president of the Board of the American Society of Breast Surgeons. She is a founding member of the Board of Directors and Member Executive Committee of the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers and a member of the international committee of the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers. She has consistently received both national and regional recognition as a “Top Doctor” and is widely published.