{"id":57433,"date":"2025-12-10T16:09:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T16:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/57433\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T16:09:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T16:09:10","slug":"city-council-approves-zoning-change-for-medical-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/57433\/","title":{"rendered":"City council approves zoning change for medical center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE\/WYOU) \u2014 Geisinger Community Medical Center now has the opportunity to expand its services in Scranton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Scranton City Council voted Tuesday night to approve zoning changes that will allow the hospital to expand across the street on Colfax Avenue to help with overcapacity issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a class=\"link  yahoo-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/police-3-people-stabbed-suspect-011332347.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Police say 3 people stabbed, suspect in custody in Scranton;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Police say 3 people stabbed, suspect in custody in Scranton <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Geisinger plans to construct a new building for extra clinical services, additional inpatient beds, as well as more parking, and a bridge connecting the main campus.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The vote comes after people living in the hill section opposed it, over concerns of their quality of life. After two hours of public comment, the council voted yes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.2822news.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to 28\/22 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to 28\/22 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE\/WYOU) \u2014 Geisinger Community Medical Center now has the opportunity to expand its services in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[31608,1466,201,178,679,180,179],"class_list":["post-57433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-colfax-avenue","tag-geisinger-community-medical-center","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-city-council","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57433","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=57433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}