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SilverCare senior-housing conversion tabled after staff raise fire, stormwater and funding questions
Summary
The Planning Commission tabled the preliminary/final land-development plan to convert a vacant hospital building to 94 age-restricted apartments, citing outstanding fire-marshal comments, stormwater and sidewalk improvements and pending funding for phase two.
The commission on April 9 discussed a preliminary/final plan to convert an existing vacant hospital building into 94 age-restricted (62+) apartment units to be completed in two phases. After staff and the city engineer identified multiple outstanding technical items and the applicant said funding for phase two remains pending, the commission voted to table the application.
Why it matters: The project would reuse a large vacant structure and add senior housing in a C-2R district, but it also requires sidewalk and right-of-way improvements, clarification of landscaping and street-tree planting, fire-marshal approval of truck circulation and sprinklers, and a Delcora will-serve letter for utilities before the commission can recommend approval.
Project overview: Jacob Tackett of T&M Associates presented on behalf of the applicant. He described a two-phase conversion with 94 units (split roughly evenly by phase), ADA-access improvements, reconstructed parking/drive aisles and an on-site loading dock. Tackett said one phase currently has PHFA funding under application and that the owner seeks to combine or stage approvals but must secure additional funding for the second phase.
Outstanding technical matters: Colliers Engineering, the city engineer and the Shade Tree Commission had issued review letters (dated in early April); the fire marshal provided comments during the meeting. Staff asked for a clearer landscape plan, locations for proposed street trees (or a fee-in-lieu if trees cannot be planted in the narrow frontage), definitive dumpster and loading locations, and clarification of which parking spaces along West Tenth Street would be removed or rehabilitated. The applicant acknowledged that some public-frontage improvements may be deferred until later funding is available but said they prefer not to delay all improvements.
Action taken: A motion to table the SilverCare preliminary/final plan passed so the applicant can address the engineering, fire, stormwater and utility will-serve issues and resubmit with complete responses and revised plans.
Next steps: The applicant will revise plans to address comments (engineer to re-review), secure pending will-serve documentation and return with the requested details on landscaping, ADA connections, loading/dumpster locations and coordination with the Shade Tree Commission.
