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Commission weighs Century Senior continuum‑of‑care proposal; staff asks for reduced massing and integrated riverway
Summary
Century Land Company proposed a continuum‑of‑care campus (independent/assisted/memory care + villas) at Bright Road and Emerald Parkway; staff and commissioners praised the housing type’s fit but urged lower massing facing residences, integration of a planned river/riverway open space and medical‑office frontage on Emerald Parkway.
Century Land Company presented an informal concept for an 18‑acre continuum‑of‑care campus at the southwest corner of Bright Road and Emerald Parkway, describing a mixed product of a multi‑story central building (independent living, assisted living and memory care), roughly 30 single‑story independent villas and a reserved parcel for future medical office.
Jordan Dorsey, owner of Century Land Company, said the project’s rental model is month‑to‑month (no buy‑in) and that comparable communities show strong demand. He said the developer is seeking early feedback on massing, architectural character and how a river/stream corridor shown in the special area plan should be incorporated and opened to the public.
Staff reminded the commission that the site’s future land use is neighborhood office and that the Emerald Parkway corridor calls for a formal landscape character, 100‑foot setbacks and low lot coverage, with assisted living considered a supporting use. Staff also called attention to a proposed river/riverway and requested that whatever plan emerges provide public access and amenitized stormwater elements.
Commissioners generally said the use could be appropriate in this corridor given the adjacent Mount Carmel hospital and recent approvals nearby, but asked the applicant to reduce the visible massing toward Bright Road and to wrap single‑story villas more completely around the north edge to buffer existing residences. Several commissioners noted the Beacon PUD nearby and said the difference between that approval and this proposal is the relationship to adjacent streets and offsets; commissioners encouraged the use of high‑quality materials (stone, masonry) to fit the corridor character.
Applicants said they are willing to rework site layout — including lowering portions of the building, moving villas, enhancing pedestrian connectivity and studying how a riverway could bisect the site as a publicly accessible amenity — before returning with a formal PDP. Staff noted a traffic‑impact study will be required at the PDP/rezoning stage.
No vote was taken; the commission offered detailed, nonbinding guidance on massing, the location of villas to buffer Bright Road, potential medical‑office frontage on Emerald Parkway and how to make stormwater/river features usable and visible to the public.
