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Planning Commission continues review of proposed Lee Summit Senior Living community after neighbors raise buffer, noise and sight concerns
Summary
O'Reilly Development and operator Arrow Senior Living presented plans for a 172-unit continuing care retirement community at Lakewood Way and Bolan Road. Neighbors expressed concerns about limited buffers, trash and generator siting and lighting; the commission continued the applications to April 9 to allow applicant and staff to work with residents.
The Planning Commission continued two linked applications (PL2025-338 and PL2025-339) for a proposed continuing care retirement community (CCRC) at the northeast corner of Lakewood Way and Bolan Road to April 9, 2026, to allow the applicant to address technical and neighborhood concerns.
O’Reilly Development outlined a campus that would include about 172 independent-living units, assisted-living and memory-care spaces plus 15 detached villas on an approximately 11.7-acre parcel. Architect Tim Wilson explained the design responds to roughly 45 feet of topographic fall across the site by stepping one-, two- and three-story building elements so that more single-story components sit closest to existing single-family homes to the north.
Operator Arrow Senior Living described operational features, hospitality programming and clinical supports; the team noted local demand for licensed beds and said their nearby Princeton community has high occupancy. “We are pursuing a full continuum of care—independent living, assisted living and memory care,” said Eric Wallish of O’Reilly Development.
Several residents who back to the project’s southern basin and northwest cottages asked the commission to require a wider buffer than the 20-foot landscape strip shown on the PDP and urged relocating trash enclosures and the site’s emergency generator away from shared property lines. Jessica Course, a Holiday Drive resident, said neighbors heard “an estimate we heard was 20 to 30%” potential drop in resale value if separation is inadequate. Other speakers cited privacy, lighting spill and concern about service vehicle noise and deliveries.
Staff told the commission the project meets UDO use allowances in commercial zoning and that a partial modification was requested to honor two neighbors’ request to preserve existing views by not adding additional buffer planting immediately behind their lots; staff noted the three-story portions of the complex will sit roughly 130 feet or more from those rear property lines.
After questions about generator noise, dumpster location, lighting photometrics and how condominium-style maintenance of the detention basin would be handled, the commission voted unanimously to continue the PDP and SUP to April 9 so applicant and staff can refine buffer, trash/generator siting and other details and return with updated materials.
What’s next: The applicant will work with staff and nearby residents to revise the PDP and SUP conditions; the commission will consider the revised materials on April 9 and then forward a recommendation to City Council.
