Council narrowly approves plan amendment and rezoning for Erickson continuing-care campus; preliminary plan wins 4-3 vote after contentious public hearing

Westminster City Council approved a comprehensive-plan amendment and a rezoning request to allow Erickson Senior Living to build a proposed continuing-care retirement community (CCRC) on roughly 75.5 acres of the Hahn Hewitt property at Westminster Boulevard and West 100th/104th Avenue. After a public hearing that drew more than 30 speakers and comments from community groups, council approved the preliminary development plan (PDP) by a narrow 4-3 vote, adding a condition requiring local marketing outreach to Westminster residents before general sales for each development phase.

The proposal from Erickson would create a campus-style CCRC with independent-living residences, assisted living, memory-care and skilled-nursing units, employee housing and on-site medical services. Erickson and its team said the campus would generate hundreds of permanent jobs, thousands of construction jobs over the buildout and would bring an estimated $850 million private investment to the site. Erickson and partners also promised roughly 10 acres of physical public land dedication (PLD)…