Planning commission to discuss hospital’s space

The Newport Beach Planning Commission will meet at 6:30 p.m. today to discuss reallocating building space at Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian, but residents at the Villa Balboa condominium complex, which boarders Hoag on two sides, say the hospital should heed their demands for a quieter neighborhood with cleaner air.

Hoag wants permission from the city to shift up to 225,000 square feet of building space from its lower campus, which stretches along Pacific Coast Highway to its upper campus bordering Newport Boulevard, to build a new 300,000-square-foot tower on Newport Boulevard.

— Brianna Bailey