DANBURY - The amount of traffic that a proposed $80 million cancer treatment center would bring to Danbury’s booming west side is expected to be less than a conventional medical office building, project consultants will argue at a public hearing next week.
“(B)ecause of the nature of this operation, traffic trips will be much lower than the formula indicates,” said Thomas Beecher, an attorney representing the owners of the proposed treatment center, Danbury Proton. “There will be a total of 34 employees and doctors on site and total of 48 patients visiting this facility each day.”
Beecher is referring to what could be the first cancer center in the state to use proton therapy to kill tumors with a minimum of damage to healthy tissue. The state Office of Health Strategy is considering Danbury Proton and a second proposal by Hartford HealthCare and the Yale New Haven Health System to use the novel therapy.
The nearest proton treatment facilities are in Boston and Manhattan.
A decision by the state on both applications is expected in the coming weeks.
Meanwhile the other regulatory hurdle is in Danbury itself, where the Planning Commission is weighing the proposal’s impact on traffic and other quality-of-life issues.
The proposed site at 85 Wooster Heights Road is on the periphery of the city’s hot west side, where a $36 million rehabilitation hospital was recently approved within the sprawling residential development known as The Reserve, and where the new owners of a 1.2 million-square-foot office park on the grounds of the former Union Carbide headquarter are renovating space for apartments, medical offices and a 1,400-student upper grade academy.
“Danbury’s west side is a hot spot for economic development, and Danbury residents should be excited,” said Drew Crandall, community engagement director for Danbury Proton. “This is a good thing for Danbury.”
The project calls for a single-story 16,000-square-foot treatment center on a 3-acre site across Route 7 from the Danbury Municipal Airport and the Danbury Fair Mall.
Because the project is in the Danbury airport “approach zone,” the FAA had to sign off on the location and height of the building, consultants said.
In addition, Danbury Proton has already gotten permission from the Zoning Board of Appeals to amend the usual requirements for landscape plantings to prevent trees growing up into the airport space.
“This is a revolutionary cancer treatment center, so we just want to be good neighbors,” said Michael Safranek, the city’s airport administrator. “This is a great thing for Danbury.”
Among the project documents that planners will scrutinize at Wednesday’s public hearing is a 50-page traffic analysis that projects 670 daily vehicle trips for the center.
The traffic analysis cautions that the projection is based on a typical medical building of the cancer center’s size.
“It will not be a typical medical office building and (will) not generate the same levels of traffic expected from a medical building accommodating multiple appointments for patients throughout the day, as well as accommodating staff and other visitors,” traffic consultant Michael Galante wrote in his analysis.
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