Planning commission OKs site plan for $25 million assisted living facility at 300 Cline Ave.
The Mansfield Planning Commission has approved a site plan for a proposed $24 million to $25 million assisted living facility to be constructed at 300 Cline Ave. in the spring of 2024.
The three-floor, Silver Birch of Mansfield facility will be built at the former site of the Mansfield City Schools' Cline Avenue Campus which is now a grassy lot near physicians offices. The facility will have 120 sleeping units along with resident common areas and building service spaces. The facility has a dining room and provides meals three times a a day.
The Cline Avenue site, currently owned by Old School Developers LLC., has 10.2 acres, according to the Richland County Auditor's Office.
Darrin Jolas, a representative of the development firm, Vermillion Acquisitions LLC of Chicago, presented a site plan Tuesday afternoon in Council Chambers to planning commission members.
Jolas said they have done senior living facilities similar to this one in Illinois and Indiana.
This site will be placed in an area zoned for Office Services. Within the city's zoning rules and regulations the city requires that senior citizen housing complexes are subject to site plans approved by the commission. There will be 70 parking spaces provided at the site versus the required one space per dwelling unit or 120 spaces. Parking occupies part of the front yard setback, according to the planning commission.
Jolas said there is a physical therapy room and the facility offers up an office space for doctors to come in and hold visitation hours with residents.
Another item on the plan commission's busy agenda was a petition from James Boyd who requested to rezone 475 S. Diamond St., a 10-acre area, for mini-storage buildings for contractors wishing to store equipment.
City council turned Boyd down recently for a rezone request for B-2 from residential and Boyd was back at the planning commission Tuesday for a second time to request the commission reword the language of the ordinance for mini storage units to be allowed in a B-1 area. The commission gave a nod of approval and the matter next will go to city council for a vote.
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This article originally appeared on Mansfield News Journal: Developer: $25M senior living facility to be built in spring of 2024
