{"id":57920,"date":"2025-12-11T01:53:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T01:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/57920\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T01:53:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T01:53:11","slug":"scranton-city-council-approves-geisinger-expansion-zoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/57920\/","title":{"rendered":"Scranton City Council approves Geisinger expansion zoning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmj03fpsr001z01sec1oqb32r@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">Scranton City Council voted last night to approve a contentious zoning amendment that will permit Geisinger Medical Center in the Hill Section to move forward with a major expansion. The council voted 3-2 in favor of the zoning change, which allows the hospital to expand both outward and upward on its property. The decision was met with immediate backlash from many in attendance, who responded with groans, jeers, and warnings that the council had made the wrong choice, as residents have long opposed the scale of the hospital&#8217;s growth. The approved change paves the way for Geisinger CMC to construct a new five-story, 75-foot-tall building and a dedicated parking garage in the 400 block of Colfax Avenue, a plan Geisinger sought to implement after earlier, more restrictive zoning limited the height of new hospital structures. The new building is intended to provide critical healthcare infrastructure, including new inpatient beds and surgical suites, an argument supported by council members who cited the region&#8217;s current healthcare uncertainty as a deciding factor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scranton City Council voted last night to approve a contentious zoning amendment that will permit Geisinger Medical Center&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-57920","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-scranton","9":"tag-scranton-headlines","10":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57920","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=57920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}