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[quote=Anonymous]OP,  I used to live next to Holy Cross Hospital (within one block--I walked over when I delivered my first kid).  I also closely followed the expansion of Suburban Hospital and the demolishing of multiple houses within that neighborhood because that's what Holy Cross wanted to do.  In both neighborhoods, HOAs fought back and there was a lot of anger on the part of residents.  Know this, [b]hospitals are giant businesses and they are always seeking to expand.[/b]  When we moved in it was my first house and in the first year or two we had no problems living next to the hospital.  Then a round of renovations was completed and the hospital instituted pay parking throughout the campus and mandatory off-site parking for employees with shuttle bus service.  Despite our neighborhood's permit parking we had all kinds of people with hospital business parking everywhere.  All kinds of utility vehicles that didn't fit in the garage, cheap-a$$ people who didn't want to pay to park, construction equipment associated with work in the hospital--so many other things than what you think of as hospital business. For example, Holy Cross rented out some of its meeting rooms on weekends and we had Greyhound-size tour buses parked on our street for the groups that used them.  Ambulances were not the problem--it was all the other crap.  And then, to make things really fun, the Holy Cross campus went smoke-free and our entire neighborhood became an ashtray as employees took smoke breaks in our front yards and I had to breathe all kinds of second-hand smoke while walking the dog.  I spent a lot of time in meetings at the hospital in an attempt to keep my neighborhood a neighborhood.  Over the years Holy Cross had bought up all the houses on the block next to it with the plan of expanding.  It was the first round of neighborhood fighting that got that plan defeated and got them to expand towards the beltway but they retained ownership of half of the houses and proved sh+tty landlords, doing only basic maintenance and essentially making eyesores of half our street. Is your house adjacent to any Suburban-owned house?  They will never sell--you are going to be next to renters and keeping that house up is low on the hospital's list of priorities.  Noise is not your biggest problem, it's how the hospital detracts from the residential nature of a neighborhood with the constant coming and going of people (many of whom you want nothing to do with) and its business nature.  If you expect this to be your forever house and you buy near other houses still owned by Suburban I would worry about when they come out with their next renovation plan.  There [b]will[/b] be one and it's not going toward Old Georgetown Road.  Many, many people in the Huntington Terrace HOA were livid about Suburban's garage expansion and the battle before the Planning Board (which the hospital obviously won) was epic.  You should talk to some anti-hospital people in the HOA if you want to find out more or google around a while.  The old Gazette covered it extensively and you might be able to find some articles.  [/quote]

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