Franklin Township has more time to review St. Luke’s land development plan for a hospital it plans to build.

On a unanimous measure, the township’s board of supervisors on Tuesday accepted St. Luke’s land development plan’s offer to extend the township’s review time for an additional 90 days.

The current 90-day review was set to expire Saturday.

Resident Jim Washburn questioned what kind of tax base the hospital will bring in.

Supervisor Robin Cressley said the hospital will only have a positive impact on the area.

“It’s definitely going to make a big difference for us,” Cressley said.

Board Chairman Jason Frey agreed.

“We’re going to have a lot of improvement to the infrastructure as well,” Frey said.

St. Luke’s University Health Network in the spring acquired over 86 acres of land to build another hospital on Harrity Road.

The new hospital will be 50 feet tall and encompass 130,000 square feet on a more than 75-acre lot.

It will begin with 40 bedrooms and eventually have 80. St. Luke’s expects to employ 200 people at the new facility to start. The lot will have 535 parking spots.

It will also include an emergency room and helipad to airlift trauma patients when necessary to its main hospital in Bethlehem. The helicopter will be used only for dire situations, said Rocco Caracciolo, a division manager at the engineering firm Pennoni Associates in Bethlehem.

The plans include widening Harrity Road to include a left-hand turning lane, he said. Concerns about increased traffic were brought up by both the commissioners and a resident who lives along Reber Street.