PeaceHealth has proposed building the medical complex in northwestSpringfield in the RiverBend area, on land currently zoned for housing.Commissioners voted 4-2 to approve the project, but included restricting elevations to about half the height hospital architects had hoped for. Commission Chairman Tim Malloy was excused from the vote and debate because he is employed by Oregon Medical Laboratories, a division of PeaceHealth.
The commission vote Wednesday paves the way for a final decision by the city council on the 165-acre project called Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend. PeaceHealth spokesman Brian Terrett said the company is studying the new conditions.
The city council will hold a public hearing Feb. 18 and vote on the matter in March. If approved, the hospital would likely break ground in 2004, with construction taking three years.
PeaceHealth hopes to build the project at Game Farm Road and the McKenzie River. The organization is shifting many of its key services from the Sacred Heart facility in downtown Eugene to the more suburban Springfield location.
The project must comply with land-use provisions of the Eugene-Springfield Metropolitan Plan and the Gateway Refinement Plan. Critics say the project is unacceptable because it isn't consistent with the Eugene-Springfield Metropolitan Plan.
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