Title
Resolution to Approve Hillside Memory Care Site Plan, 312 Glendale Drive (CPC Recommendation: Approval - 6 Yeas and 1 Nay)
Memorandum
Approval of this resolution will allow for the construction of a 16,743 single-story memory care facility with 24 rooms and 21 surface parking spaces.
Petition Summary:
* The Site Plan proposes to construct a 16,743 single-story memory care facility with 24 rooms and 21 surface parking spaces. The facility will operate in conjunction with the Hillside Terrace Senior Living Facility directly adjacent to the west. Access to the parking lot will be from the adjacent Hillside Terrace site and there will be no vehicular connection to Glendale Drive. Rooms will be single occupancy and reserved for memory care patients.
* During Planning Commission deliberation, there were numerous questions and concerns raised around storm water and flooding that occurs in the adjacent neighborhood. For this site, storm water management is under the jurisdiction of the Washtenaw County Water Resources Commissioner (WCWRC) and has been preliminarily approved. It will be provided in an underground storm water detention/retention system near the east and south side of the proposed building. Since the soils on the site are not conducive to infiltration, the system is designed to hold 120% of a 100-year storm event per the rules of the WCWRC. Storm water will be discharged to the City Storm water system at a much reduced rate than existing. Currently no storm water treatment exists for the site, and it is anticipated that the proposed system will improve storm water management in the area.
* The petitioner responded to issues raised by Planning Commission regarding massing of the building by providing elevation perspectives from Glendale, adding vines to the proposed retaining walls and by exceeding the minimum landscaping requirements set forth by ordinance.
The City Planning Commission, at its meeting of December 6th, 2016, recommended ap...
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