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Kenai commissioners discuss senior‑housing feasibility, wait list and market‑study budgeting
Summary
The commission reviewed a referral to investigate senior housing, reported contact with a local architect for a feasibility scope, discussed a tightened assisted‑housing wait list (about 116 people) and budgeted a market‑study, noting its current $6,000 budget may be insufficient.
Commission members discussed progress on a prior recommendation that Kenai city council investigate the need for additional senior housing.
Staff reported contacting a local architect for a feasibility study that would replicate the scope used in a 1988 study: demographics, soils, conceptual drawings, and conceptual rent/operating feasibility. The architect provided a ballpark estimate that staff described as roughly in the mid‑hundreds of thousands (staff reported a ballpark…
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