1/10/09

UPDATE SUMMARY

Application status: "in review."

When the applicant last appeared before the Development Review Board, they presented a revised concept, but when pointedly asked if they were presenting a revised application, they said NO.

The P&Z office updates the permit status report daily: REPORT

161718 70 APPLETREE POINT LN In Review 08-450CU Dec 11 2007 TBD
Conditional use review of convalescent component of a 256-unit elderly housing planned residential development (including convalescent home with assisted living, residential care, and memory care living facilities). [NOTE: this request is for final determination.]

161658 70 APPLETREE POINT LN In Review 08-450PD Dec 10 2007 TBD
Preliminary plat review of a 256-unit elderly housing planned residential development (including convalescent home with assisted living, residential care, and memory care living facilities).

Application 161718 requests a FINAL determination regarding conditional use (convalescent component) which can be granted only at the DRB's discretion. The DRB ruled they could not approve appropriateness of a use without considering scale and impacts on the area. The application is being reviewed under the old zoning ordinance. [NOTE: The new zoning ordinance added locational appropriateness to the senior bonus option to direct it to areas that meet locational criteria for senior living facilities.]

Application 161658 requests PRELIMINARY plat review for a 256 unit elderly housing PRD. During review, attention was focused on storybook sketches of Adirondack greathouses surrounded by towering tree canopy -- conceptual only, of course. Our DRB did not buy it. After deliberation, consensus was that the project is way out of scale for the area, poses traffic issues, is in a fragile wetland area, and does not meet locational criteria for senior living.

The application was pulled back, indefinitely, and it is currently listed as "under review." The land, upon which outlandish football field sized 5 story buildings were proposed, is posted FOR SALE. The historic house is under orders to prevent demolition by neglect.

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