Children's Hospital Master Plan Approved by City Council

Yesterday afternoon, the Seattle City Council approved a new 20-year growth Master Plan for Children’s Hospital. 

The process to come to this approval was quite lengthy - 2 years of Citizen Advisory Committee Meetings and recently, meetings between the hospital and the Laurelhurst Community Club both working to come to a compromise on the proposed expansion.

The City Council adopted yesterday the two parties Settlement Agreement submitted in February.

Soem of the provisions in the agreement set forth are:  reduced square footage, no expansion of Hospital boundaries across Sand Point Way, 50 year restriction on expansion into residential areas,  height restrictions of no more than 20 percent of the campus land area over 90 feet and no more than 10 percent over 125 feet and no structure above 140 feet in height.

The full Settlement Agreement is here.

The Hospital Master Plan information can be found here on the hospital website.

Here is some additional coverage from the Seattle Times and the Seattle P-I yesterday.