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Planning board recommends city council adopt updates to senior housing definitions and parking standards
Summary
The Planning & Zoning Board voted to recommend city council approve land development code amendments that modernize senior and special-needs housing definitions and reduce off-street parking ratios for those uses.
The Port Richey Planning & Zoning Board on Oct. 14 recommended that city council approve amendments to the city's land development code that would update definitions for senior and special-needs housing types and reduce off-street parking requirements for those uses.
City planner Tammy Vrana presented the city-initiated amendment after staff received a variance request from Best Care Senior Living. Vrana said the city's existing standard (essentially 1 parking space per bed) proved excessive compared with standards in peer communities and current practice, and that the amendment modernizes definitions for assisted living, congregate care, independent senior living and skilled…
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