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Planning Board to hear plan to rezone hospital
By: David Campbell , Staff Writer
The Regional Planning Board of Princeton is scheduled to hold a public hearing Thursday night on proposed Master Plan amendments for reuse of the University Medical Center at Princeton campus. The Planning Board meeting is scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m. in the main meeting room of Princeton Township Hall. The proposed Master Plan amendments, if approved by the board, would permit the UMCP campus on Witherspoon Street to be rezoned for residential reuse with limited commercial and office uses.
Last month, the board referred the amendments to its Master Plan Subcommittee for further review after members of the public and some board members voiced fresh concerns about high-density residential redevelopment at the site and other issues. On Dec. 21, the subcommittee expressed consensus that the high level of residential density as proposed in the amendments should remain and be put to a vote by the Planning Board. The proposed reuse density includes up to 280 residential units on the main hospital campus in Princeton Borough.
However, a majority of the subcommittee rejected the idea of a new residential street running from Witherspoon Street to Harris Road that some residents have proposed to break up the 12-acre hospital block. Subcommittee members Yina Moore and Jacqueline Tillmann, however, strongly favored the through-street concept.
Nonprofit planning group Princeton Future also supports the proposal for "a new neighborhood street" through the hospital campus, according to an advertisement by the group. It is asking residents to urge the board to include language to that effect in the revised Master Plan. Hospital owner Princeton HealthCare System has announced plans to buy 160 acres owned by FMC Corp. at Route 1 and Plainsboro Road in Plainsboro for a new, $350 million hospital campus to replace the UMCP campus in Princeton.
Philadelphia-based firm Lubert-Adler Management Inc. has been named as developer for the Princeton site. Lubert-Adler has said it plans to redevelop the property in accordance with the amended Master Plan and whatever new zoning arises from it.
Princeton University was named as the buyer of two other PHCS properties — the nearly 2-acre Franklin Avenue parking lot adjacent to the hospital and the 9-acre Merwick Rehab Hospital & Nursing Care facility off Bayard Lane.
The university has said those two parcels could be good locations for new faculty, staff and graduate student housing, and maybe affordable housing. PHCS plans to break ground in Plainsboro in 2007 and open in 2010. PHCS has sought a certificate of need for the new campus from state health officials, which is still pending.
Planning Board to hear plan to rezone hospital
By: David Campbell , Staff Writer
The Regional Planning Board of Princeton is scheduled to hold a public hearing Thursday night on proposed Master Plan amendments for reuse of the University Medical Center at Princeton campus. The Planning Board meeting is scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m. in the main meeting room of Princeton Township Hall. The proposed Master Plan amendments, if approved by the board, would permit the UMCP campus on Witherspoon Street to be rezoned for residential reuse with limited commercial and office uses.
Last month, the board referred the amendments to its Master Plan Subcommittee for further review after members of the public and some board members voiced fresh concerns about high-density residential redevelopment at the site and other issues. On Dec. 21, the subcommittee expressed consensus that the high level of residential density as proposed in the amendments should remain and be put to a vote by the Planning Board. The proposed reuse density includes up to 280 residential units on the main hospital campus in Princeton Borough.
However, a majority of the subcommittee rejected the idea of a new residential street running from Witherspoon Street to Harris Road that some residents have proposed to break up the 12-acre hospital block. Subcommittee members Yina Moore and Jacqueline Tillmann, however, strongly favored the through-street concept.
Nonprofit planning group Princeton Future also supports the proposal for "a new neighborhood street" through the hospital campus, according to an advertisement by the group. It is asking residents to urge the board to include language to that effect in the revised Master Plan. Hospital owner Princeton HealthCare System has announced plans to buy 160 acres owned by FMC Corp. at Route 1 and Plainsboro Road in Plainsboro for a new, $350 million hospital campus to replace the UMCP campus in Princeton.
Philadelphia-based firm Lubert-Adler Management Inc. has been named as developer for the Princeton site. Lubert-Adler has said it plans to redevelop the property in accordance with the amended Master Plan and whatever new zoning arises from it.
Princeton University was named as the buyer of two other PHCS properties — the nearly 2-acre Franklin Avenue parking lot adjacent to the hospital and the 9-acre Merwick Rehab Hospital & Nursing Care facility off Bayard Lane.
The university has said those two parcels could be good locations for new faculty, staff and graduate student housing, and maybe affordable housing. PHCS plans to break ground in Plainsboro in 2007 and open in 2010. PHCS has sought a certificate of need for the new campus from state health officials, which is still pending.
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