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Planning commission recommends approval of Lee's Summit Senior Community after site revisions; neighbors submit protest petitions
Summary
After hearing an applicant presentation, staff summary and public testimony from concerned neighbors, the commission voted to recommend approval of a 172-unit continuing care retirement community (preliminary development plan and 40-year special use permit) subject to recommended conditions; staff recorded protest petitions from 13 properties within the 185-foot buffer.
The Lee's Summit Planning Commission on April 23 recommended approval of the preliminary development plan and special use permit for the proposed Lee's Summit Senior Community, a continuing care retirement community proposed at 5101 Northeast Lakewood Way, following an applicant presentation, a staff review of revisions and public testimony from nearby residents.
Applicant Eric Wallash described the rectangular, roughly 12-acre site and said the project would include about 172 units (approximately 104 independent living, 48 assisted living and 20 memory care units) plus about 15 single-story villas near the northerly property line. Wallash said the team had met with neighbors after a March hearing and relocated the backup generator to the southern end of the site, moved and screened the dumpster enclosure, increased the landscape…
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