Amended plans pitched by St. Luke’s to build a medical office building attached to its main hospital in Franklin Township have hit a snag.

After much deliberation, supervisors on Tuesday tabled the revised St. Luke’s Medical Office Building land development and subdivision plans.

At issue is that St. Luke’s doesn’t have the setbacks for the medical office building, and must apply for a variance concerning the setbacks.

The board did, however, grant St. Luke’s a 60-day time extension until April 7 for its medical office building land development plan.

Plans call for a three-story, 60,000-square-foot medical office building to be built on 30.5 acres between the St. Luke’s Carbon Campus and down toward Reber Street.

The medical office building would be connected to the hospital by a walkway. The facility is expected to be opened in early 2023.

It would include cancer, cardiac, orthopedics care, pain management and physical therapy services and physicians’ offices, along with a full fitness center.

Attorney Joseph Bubba, representing St. Luke’s, was joined by Scott Pasterski, engineer, and Bret Buchman, project manager.

Bubba noted that the township’s planning commission granted conditional approval last month.

Bubba said that St. Luke’s is trying to get USDA financing.

“I have not understood the concern,” Bubba said. “All we want to do is build a really nice hospital.”

Board Chairman Fred Kemmerer asked what happens if someone else decides to buy the 16.5-acre lot to the side of it.

“I’m concerned with how that corner of Franklin Township is going to look like,” he said. “I know what the township is meant to look like, and that’s my main concern.”

Pasterski said he’s worked for St. Luke’s on various projects, and that they are “top notch.”

“They don’t go there and run roughshod over communities,” Pasterski said. “That’s not who they are, (and) that’s not what they do.”

St. Luke’s University Health Network opened the doors to its $80 million Carbon campus on Nov. 20.

The new three-story, 80-patient room is located near the intersection of Harrity and Fairyland roads and opened on Nov. 20.

The 160,000-square-foot facility is the centerpiece of the network’s new 108-acre technologically advanced, multipurpose, rural medical and wellness complex.

St. Luke’s formally dedicated its Carbon Campus hospital on Oct. 30 with a ribbon-cutting event that took place outside of the building’s main entrance.