The hospital needed the rezoning approval to add four stories to its three-story surgery center. The expansion also will allow Highland to convert 60 semiprivate rooms to fully private ones.
Though residents of the surrounding neighborhood approve of the additional four stories, some expressed concern about the maximum height that would be allowed for future expansion.
“People were concerned that the hospital would just overrun the neighborhood at some point,” Michael Thompson, a member of the Highland Park Neighborhood Association, told the newspaper.
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