Before & After

The hospital's proposed Master Plan actually does provide a few revealing pictures, but it's a royal pain to sort through and compare them. No wonder the Times reported inaccurate height increments. You absolutely must be adept at toggling the resolution and your scrollbars. To make it easier, we've extracted several key images.

Let's start by comparing before/after heights for the existing site. Make sure to click on the images to see them full-size. Wow, the pictures are side-by-side-- who would have thought it possible? The lower lefts show regions whose height caps would rise from 50, 70 and 90 feet to 240 feet. Overall, you can see that about 2/3rds of the site would become zoned for 240 feet. So what does it look like for buildings to increase so much in height? Here's an intimidating diagram. You can just make out the existing, 50-foot buildings above the trees, below the new 240-foot towers. The right-hand scale differentiates height caps (MIOs) of 50 and 240 feet.No wonder the hospital is confident it can purchase and expand across the community of Laurelon, immediately to the right of this sketch. Laurelon sure won't feel particularly residential in the day-long shadow of these towers.