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FYI. Anyone that lives in the area and wants to attend the meeting, let me know. It’s Tuesday, September 24 at 6:30 PM at Santaluz. PM me and I can get you on the list to attend as it’s open to the public. Santaluz is guard gated but I can get you on the list if you want to attend this meeting about the Assisted Living Center.
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ER, can you give a little more info? What is the location of this Assisted Living facility? Is it behind the gates of Santaluz, or elsewhere? The reason I ask is because I am wondering if it is the ongoing development on the north side of Carmel Valley Road, between the Black Mountain Community Park with the baseball fields, and the turnoff for Ivy Gate? Someone told me that they had heard that it might be developed as senior living, but it seems like an odd location and it looks like they are building small homesites rather than configuring the land to accommodate a large footprint building.
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No, it’s NOT within the gates of Santaluz. They would NEVER allow that plus there is NO zoning for that. It’s on that grassy area next to Willow Grove Elementary School. The land isn’t being utilized now.
You can see some more information here below (which is cut and pasted verbatim from correspondence that was sent to me).
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SANTALUZ ASSISTED LIVING AND MEMORY CARE FACILITY PROJECT DESCRIPTION
• Our Goal is to provide a warm, inviting and safe place for our Seniors with disabilities to live a full life, including the wonderful intergenerational program opportunities with the adjacent schools.
• Assisted Living and Memory Care facilities are centrally located to provide care for our love ones, usually within two to five miles from their immediate families’ homes. Our project will provide this important service to the community and believe it will be an asset to all of the surrounding neighborhoods.
• The design is for a one and two-story project providing 32 units of Assisted Living and 32 units of Memory Care with a maximum of 74 Beds. The building layout has been designed to take advantage of the “L” shaped lot, provide good setbacks, and have a minimal impact on the surrounding neighborhood.
• This Senior Housing use itself is a very low impact one, with a quiet user group and minimal traffic that will be generated.
• There are extensive Guidelines for the design of homes in the Santaluz neighborhood. Although they are not expressly applicable to this Assisted Living and Memory Care project, we are very concerned with designing a project that is compatible with the surrounding environment, and becomes an integral part of the community including lush and beautiful landscaping.
• This project is to construct a new 71,630 SF facility providing Assisted Living and Memory Care located in the Santaluz development of San Diego. The building site is a vacant lot that has never been utilized, and is part of the Black Mountain Ranch Subarea Plan.
• There are no existing trees or vegetation on the lot, with the exception of field grass. The surrounding streets have all been improved, and utilities are available in the street.
• The site is currently zoned for Institutional Senior/Recreational Use and we are applying for a Conditional Use Permit and a Community Plan Amendment as part of our entitlements. The site is 3.289 acres and with a maximum FAR (Floor area ratio) of .50 and that translates to a maximum square footage of 71,634. Our design stays within the approved FAR parameters.
• Of the many design options available for homes in the Santaluz neighborhood, we have chosen the “Tuscany Farmhouse” style to emulate for this project. The form and massing of this style emphasizes an informal and additive nature, which we believe is ideal to help minimize the mass and scale of the building.
We completed massingstudies as a part of the design process to help determine how to best achieve a residential scale. The North wing of the building steps down to one story. At the West and South wings, the second floor plate typically steps back to break the line of the exterior façade and then utilizes smaller scale shed roofs that bring the building down to human scale.
We have also been careful to work with the roof design in order to avoid a continuous ridgeline as well as keeping the height below 30 feet in compliance with the Design Guidelines and consistent with the heights of the homes in the surrounding neighborhoods. The design breaks the roof into several separate components while also providing roof wells that screen the mechanical equipment.
• The building is designed with a North Wing, West Wing, and South Wing that all converge at the central commons area where the main entrance is also located. The North Wing is a one-story component which houses 17 Memory Care units. The first floor of the West Wing also houses another 15 Memory Care units. The remainder of the building provides 32 units of Assisted Living and a wide range of common areas including congregate dining rooms. No kitchen facilities will be provided within the resident units. This building will be staffed 24 hours a day.
• Each of the Memory Care neighborhoods has access to a special gated outdoor Courtyard space, designed specifically to securely serve this population. The courtyard spaces will have walking paths and special amenities the residents can enjoy.
• Our site plan provides 44 parking spaces, all located in the rear of the building and behind walls at the Via Fiesta Entry. The City of San Diego parking standards are not specific for the Senior Housing uses we propose for this project; however, it does meet the minimum standard of 43 units as approved by City Transportation on February 27, 2012.
