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Hospital public hearing may be delayed
The Sept. 25 Planning Commission public hearing on HCA's application to build a 164-bed hospital in Broadlands has been derailed by a clerical error in the placards that advertised the hearing.The hearing was to be held at Eagle Ridge Middle School on Waxpool Road in Ashburn. Newspapers notices of the hearing gave the correct location.
The yellow hearing notices posted in Broadlands near the 57-acre site directed the public to the County Government Center at 1 Harrison Street in Leesburg.
"You have to post correctly," said Assistant County Administrator Charles Yudd. "It appears the public notice signs have incorrectly identified where the public hearing will occur."
Yudd said he will recommend to the Planning Commission chairman and vice chairman that the public hearing be rescheduled for a later date.
Attorney Rhonda Paice brought the error to the attention of County Administrator Kirby Bowers. Her clients, citizens of Broadlands who do not want a hospital in their neighborhood, will be very happy with the delay, Paice said.
"My clients feel this application has been pushed way too quickly through the process," Paice said.
HCA, the largest for-profit hospital corporation in the country and in Virginia, got the state's approval for a Broadlands hospital in early 2005. In August of that year, the Board of Supervisors rejected the project as incompatible with a residential neighborhood.
HCA filed a lawsuit challenging that denial. In March 2008, just days before the trial was set to start in Circuit Court, a new Board of Supervisors agreed to look at the hospital application again, in return for HCA's dropping the lawsuit.
Contact the reporter at ssollinger@timespapers.com
The information on those roadside yellow meeting signs which are often placed at intersections is virtually impossible to read from inside a vehicle! Much larger lettering and/or signs would not only make them easier to read but prevent blocking intersections while getting out to read them! Of course if the intent to minimize attendance at these meetings, the current signs do that very well.
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