>Ridgewood council’s Valley hearings are winding down
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2011
BY KELLY EBBELS
STAFF WRITER
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
A decision is drawing near on The Valley Hospital’s expansion project, and Ridgewood residents are coming to the microphone in greater numbers to make sure their thoughts are heard.
At last week’s special public meeting concerning the proposed “Renewal,” a drove of supporters of the hospital’s plans stepped forward in high numbers – many of them doctors, current or former employees or members of the hospital’s board of trustees – to voice their reasons why the project should pass: the importance of single-patient rooms, the need for more space for diagnostic equipment, and the hospital’s support for the community.
Opponents of the project – some of whom asserted that they supported modernization, but not at the scale Valley has proposed – made their case as well, noting that recent testimonies from experts signaled that construction could pose risks to neighboring properties and safety hazards to schoolchildren near the hospital.
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