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Commission weighs Century Senior concept: suitable senior housing but not as primary gateway use
Summary
Century Senior presented an 18‑acre continuum‑of‑care concept at Emerald Parkway/Bright Road (independent living, assisted living, villas and future medical office). Staff and several commissioners said the property’s corridor designation favors neighborhood medical/office fronting Emerald Parkway and recommended the applicant orient medical/office to the Parkway and place senior housing behind it.
Century Land Company sought informal feedback on an 18‑acre continuum‑of‑care campus located at the southwest corner of Bright Road and Emerald Parkway, proposing a main building with independent living (four stories) and assisted living/memory care stepping down toward adjacent residences, plus roughly 30 single‑story independent villas and a reserved parcel for future medical office.
Jordan Dorsey, the applicant, said the project is a rental, month‑to‑month continuum of care (no buy‑in fee) and emphasized demand for senior housing: "Dublin's own housing study indicated we need 2,000 or a little over 1,000 units by 2030," he told the commission. He said the team prefers a residential feel—stone, hardiplank and pitched roofs—to avoid an institutional appearance.
Staff noted the site is identified as neighborhood office in Envision Dublin and is subject to the Emerald Corridor Special Area Plan, which calls for one‑ to two‑story office/medical buildings, a 100‑foot Emerald Parkway setback, maintenance of tree rows and an open‑space/riverway connection. Staff flagged that the applicant’s concept shows higher intensity than the area plan’s typical square‑footage targets and asked whether adjacent approvals (Mount Carmel, Beacon) change expectations.
Commissioners broadly said the city needs senior housing but that assisted living should not be the primary, street‑facing use at the Emerald Parkway gateway. Instead several commissioners recommended orienting a lower‑scale medical/office frontage along Emerald Parkway, using the riparian corridor and shared‑use path as a focal organizing feature and locating villas and assisted living where they transition to single‑family neighborhoods. The applicant said the concept is flexible and that the team would revise building orientation and massing based on feedback and the drainage/riverway alignment discovered in staff maps.
