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Scranton Mayor Paige Cognetti plans to introduce changes to the city’s zoning ordinance, aiming to increase flexibility for local hospitals, specifically for the Geisinger Community Medical Center (GCMC) campus.<\/p>\n
The proposed ordinance, set to be introduced at the Scranton City Council meeting on Thursday, November 13, focuses on unifying disparate zoning districts adjacent to GCMC on Mulberry Street.<\/p>\n
Key Proposed Changes<\/p>\n
The area immediately surrounding GCMC on Mulberry Street is currently designated as Civic.<\/p>\n
The proposal would change portions of the adjacent 200 and 400 blocks of Colfax Avenue from their current Town-City Institutional designation to the matching Civic designation.<\/p>\n
This unification is intended to streamline regulations and support GCMC’s operational and expansion needs.<\/p>\n
A public hearing on the matter is scheduled for Tuesday, December 9, allowing residents to voice their opinions before the City Council is expected to take a final vote on the ordinance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scranton Mayor Paige Cognetti plans to introduce changes to the city’s zoning ordinance, aiming to increase flexibility for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[2376,182,2375,12841,178,180,21582,179],"class_list":["post-34599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-breaking-news","tag-local-news","tag-newsbreak","tag-newsradio-wilk","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-mayor-proposes-unifying-zoning-to-boost-hospital-flexibility","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}