Seattle Children's Hospital has released the final master plan and environmental impact statement for its proposed expansion.
Seattle Children's submitted the plan Monday to the city-appointed Citizens Advisory Committee and the city's Department of Planning and Development. The master planning process started in the spring of 2007.
The expansion would more than double the number of beds and building sizes on the hospital's 22-acre campus and the 1.8 acres facing it between now and 2030.
The plan includes building on an adjacent condominium site, which the hospital has a deal to buy.
The environmental impact statement considers the effects on issues such as traffic, housing, noise, aesthetics, light and shadows and air and water quality.
The master plan includes proposals to convince Children's employees not to commute alone and tries to reduce the expansion's effect on views by moving the proposed sites of taller buildings downhill from the current campus.
Seattle Planning and Development Director Diane Sugimura and the citizen advisory committee will independently prepare draft findings and recommendations on the plan and, after taking comments, send their reports to the hearing examiner's office.
The hearing examiner will hold a hearing and make recommendations to the City Council, which is likely to vote on the plan in summer 2009.
The citizen advisory committee is scheduled to review the plan and impact statement at the committee's scheduled meeting Wednesday evening.