Blu Line Development

Blu Line recently presented new conceptual plans to the Planning Commission for an assisted living or congregate care facility. Here are the drawings from the night.

This first picture shows the exterior (and I apologize it's sideways - I cannot figure out how to rotate it in Blogger). The entire facility is three stories. The windows that appear to be a fourth story are decorative dormers and not living space. The height of the building to the ceiling of the third floor is 33 feet. I didn't get an exact height for the building to the top of the roof, but was told it was just under 50 feet.

This next drawing shows the setbacks from 4600, Cedar Hills Drive, and the homes to the south. The top of this picture is the north end of the building, which is the part facing Cedar Hills Drive. You can see the shape of this new concept plan is different from past presentations. I made a few notes on this drawing. You'll see a rectangle in the northeast corner, which is a separate building and there was talk of this possibly being office space, like the offices across from it. On the northwest corner is another building that would be commercial in nature, but there are no specifics on what kind of commercial would go here.

I rotated this picture to show the perspective from Cedar Hills Drive. It also provides a good view of what the landscaping would look like.

This last picture shows entrances and access areas. It also says "monuments" but I have no idea what is meant by that. On the east side of the building there are now two exits onto 4600, as requested by the fire department, as the entrance from Cedar Hills Drive will only be available to those heading east, but the fire trucks/paramedics would be coming from the east. There are four elevator areas in the building; two in front and two in back. The smaller dots on the building show access areas into the building.

Blu Line originally came back with this as an assisted living center as that is listed as an permitted use in our design guidelines. However, after talking to the Planning Commission and the site plan review committee, they are asking whether an assisted living center or congregate care facility (55+ housing) is preferred. The direction from the Planning Commission was that the congregate care facility was preferred as it was felt those residents would provide more of a benefit to the community with regards to volunteerism and tax dollars.

The total number of units is somewhere between 250-300 (they didn't have an exact number that night) and approximately 340 parking stalls.

I believe that Blu Line plans to present these conceptual plans to the City Council in December. I encourage residents to stay involved and give feedback, especially with regards to the assisted living versus congregate care.