Architect details Valley Hospital expansion plan before Ridgewood board
Thursday May 30, 2013, 11:03 AM
BY CHRIS HARRIS
STAFF WRITER
The Record
RIDGEWOOD — Planning Board members and some 50 village residents were inundated this week with information on setbacks and buffers, as experts for The Valley Hospital continued plugging the facility’s proposed expansion.
Testimony during Wednesday’s Planning Board meeting zeroed in on questions and concerns raised nearly two months ago by the board, its experts, and residents.
An architect representing Valley, Steve Evers, led a power-point presentation that raised even more questions about the project, which would expand the hospital from 562,000 square feet to 995,000 square feet — enough room for 452 beds. The hospital also plans to add a 245,000-square-foot parking garage.
Most of Evers’ presentation focused on comparisons: Current conditions at the hospital site versus post-project conditions and how they’ll impact the surrounding neighborhood.
It will have no effect. Nobody will be able to see it. Cars are invisible. Life is good for consultants.
A comparison with a hospital that sits on 125 acres compared to Valley’s 15 and they have fewer beds. Interesting!