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Herald
WsdiMMtay, Dacwnbard, 1987
18 Gateway Pabliqations
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Question: Away with a manger?
SI $tepheh's has revised plans
4
Bus stop offers editoriai subject
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Point Park College honorsi Bettie Cole
12
'The Polish Prince'^ visits Clark Race
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*Th« Finishing Touch,” the extravaganza that helped raise the final funds for transforming the old Sewic1<ley Post Office into a (kMnmunlty cultural center, proved more lucrative than expected. Natasha S. Green, right, pronounced the nigS;t "an ama^ng success.” That achievement was due in part to a little help from her friends, who served with Tash on the Finishing Touch committee: Karen Smith Ombres, left, and Eiizalieth Evans, center. For more glimpses of the big event, see pages 5 and 26 in today’s Herald.	'	l(Photo’by	Mike	May)
Zoning board approves hospital expansion
Special conditions require additional offf-street spaces to minimise
By Mariie Halsey '
Exjianiion plam for Sewickley Valley UoBpital were approved subject to several qiecial condntions by the Zoning Hearing Board of Sewickley last Thursday.
The conditions, according to the rqxirt oC the Zoning Hearing Board, are;
►	135 off-street parting ijMces “shall be located on the site or conveniently near to the principal building which is being served by the paridng/’
►	‘Hie current flO off-street parking naces'rented from the YMCA shall dther be maintained under the current arrangcoieDt ior shall be replaced if these spaces are no longer av^ble.
►	The hospital ‘'shall coittinue to provide valet and stack parking in Its own
parking garage, or in the event tbd^e spaces should not be aVailaUe, provide rqdacement off-street paridng spaces equal in numbo' conveniently hear to the principal building which is being s^ed by the paridng.”
“Hie comideted apfdication fbr building permit shall include and describe{dans to comply with the above terms and conditions.”
Tlie hospital had originally at^ed for abuOdfingpermiton S^. 16, and the ap^ ,|dication was denied on the basis of Boroui^ of SewicU^ Ordinance No. sra dealing with noncooforining lots, structures and uses. The ordinance limits the expansion of non-confomiing uses to 40 percent andrSquires that the rapansion be “ressonaUe, necessary fw business, and 'not harmful/’ according to Sewiddey Borough Manager Steven
Perry.
A three^part test'is allied. Perry said. The ouilding’s footi^t, square footage: and cubic footage are consider^. The proposed hospital expansion will increase the footfHint 6.3 percent; the square footage 10.17 percent; and the cubic footege 10.89 pereent—all within the 40 percent limitation. Perry Said.
According to Perry^ the only opposition to the hospital plans that has been voiced concerns paridng.
The hearing board found that the proposal constitutes a “natural apd reasonable expansion” of current use and is within the percentage guidelines specified hi the ordinance, The board also concluded that “there would be a substantial adverse effect on the com-mubnity which would be detrimttital to
village parlcing woies
the health, safety, and welfare of the inhabitants of Sewickley if additional > parking were not provided.”
The uses for the new six-story addition include the following:
►	basement — relocation of the engineering dqiartment;
►	first floor — admiiliistration, per-■ sonnel, accounting, marketing research
and community relations;
. ► second floor — .expansion of supply ‘departoent;
>■ third floor—expansion of radiology and non-invasive laboratory, office -space;	.
fourth floor —.operating rodms;
►	fifth floor — relocation of 12 rehabilitation tieds from fifth-floor central, physical and occupational therapy;
►	sixth floor ^ laboratory space, microbiology, ^linacy.
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