A plan proposed by New York's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center for a new outpatient surgery center in Manhattan has been rejected by a community board, according to a DNAinfo report.
Sloan-Kettering proposed building a 261-foot-tall outpatient surgery center. The proposal calls for a bulkier building than zoning rules permit, so the hospital needs a variance to proceed with its development. Meeting before the board was the initial step in the review process.
But local residents of a co-op situated next to the location where the hospital proposed to build the surgery center voiced objections to the board, arguing the new facility would block daylight from their homes.
The surgery center was projected to care for an estimated 60 patients daily. Moving the case volume to the new center would free up the Sloan-Kettering 's main building for more intensive procedures.
Sloan-Kettering did not indicate whether it would alter its proposal.
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