CLEMMONS — The village council voted 5-0 last night to approve a subdivision plan for Novant Inc. to build a hospital as part of a124-acre campus. The project will consist of a public lake surrounded by greenways, a new elementary school, and space for retail businesses and a housing development.
The plan involves the commercial section of the project, Gary Looper, Clemmons village manager, said.
In July, the council voted 4-0 to approve the rezoning of the project that will be off Harper Road and Interstate 40. At that time, Council Member Al Harbury abstained from voting because he said that the project didn't meet the village's land-use plan, and it did not include a park.
Council Member Mary Cameron has said that the project follows the Village Point Area Plan that guides development in Clemmons.
The hospital was proposed in September 2007, about the same time that Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center proposed a similar community hospital about four miles away in Advance.
Novant and Wake Forest Baptist have waged an intense battle for local support, and both have earned conditional approval from the state on their proposed hospitals. However, Baptist has appealed the approval given to Novant. State officials are expected to rule on that appeal by November.
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