Plans to demolish the existing skilled nursing facility building, currently unoccupied, were discussed and supported by the city’s Planning Commission in August. While the assisted living facility will see no changes, the new memory care center, which will be part of the Vista Terrace senior community, will be three stories with 36 units.
While some initial public feedback concerned the expanded facility’s impact on surrounding traffic and parking — particularly as the project will decrease the number of parking spaces from 41 to 34 — staff said it should not increase congestion.
“Although the project provides fewer parking spaces than the existing [planned development] parking standard and the parking ordinance, the loss of parking is not expected to result in any impacts to the community as future memory care residents will not be driving due to their medical needs,” according to the staff report.
The vast majority of the tenants at the assisted living facility rely on shuttles and transportation provided, rather than their own vehicles, the report added.
Councilmember Tom McCune said the facility is a much-needed and welcome care center.
“Anybody who’s ever had a friend or a loved one in a memory care facility wishes those kinds of facilities didn’t need to exist but they do need to exist,” McCune said during the Sept. 24 council meeting. “That means they need to be as good and well built as possible, so this seems to me to be a very well worked out plan, and it’s the kind of facility that’s really needed. Everything about it seems fine to me.”
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The project will be roughly 24,000 square feet and is also subject to various impact fees, including public art. The City Council will review the project again in October.
Councilmember Davina Hurt also added she was in support of the project.
“There are definitely individuals in need of this space and the fact that they’ve increased the living facility is a bonus for the city of Belmont,” she said.
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