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Hospital redux: Error prompts second Broadlands public hearing
The application to build a hospital in Broadlands is going back for a second Planning Commission public hearing. Supervisors and planning commissioners will hold a joint public hearing on the Broadlands Regional Medical Center application Nov. 20, 6 p.m. at Stone Bridge High School in Ashburn.
The re-hearing is prompted by an omission in the public advertising for the Oct. 15 public hearing at Eagle Ridge Middle School. A sentence dealing with how the applicant can measure the building height was left out.
The Planning Commission will not vote on its recommendation to the Board of Supervisors on the application until after the Nov 20 public hearing, said County Planner Van Armstrong.
The commissioners could in theory vote after the end of public comment at the Stone Bridge hearing, but that is unlikely, Armstrong said.
The Board of Supervisors will not have to hold another public hearing after it gets a recommendation from the Planning Commission and starts its deliberations on the application, Armstrong said.
Planning commissioners have held two work sessions on the application since the Oct. 15 public hearing, and will meet to discuss the application several more times before the Nov. 20 hearing.
The previous Board of Supervisors, in August 2005, turned down a nearly identical application for a 164-bed hospital on Broadlands Boulevard. HCA, the national for-profit hospital corporation, immediately filed a lawsuit challenging that decision. In March 2008, just days before the lawsuit was to be heard in Circuit Court, the current Board of Supervisors agreed to rehear the application in return for HCA's dropping legal action.
-- Contact the reporter at ssollinger@timespapers.com
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