I think this is a great development. I also appreciate Councilman Marks requested donations for he dog park and mansion renovation and the developer planning on fulfilling is request; smart way to raise funds for Perry Hall projects in a tough economy and smart way to get the community on your side. Win win as far as I am concerned.

Sounds good so far..... Although very pricey for seniors nowadays.

The rental costs are way to high for seniors on a limited income. Even though I'm still working my husband and I could not afford those costs.

Karen - those rates are actually not that bad. I was paying over $4,000 a month for my grandmother's assisted living at a smaller facility in Parkville. I would say the average rate for assisted living in this area (depending on level of care) is about $3,500-$4,000. Save those pennies for the eldercare days. Brightview charges a monthly rental fee (like any apartment complex) but doesn't require large a up-front committment of $150k-$200k or more like some of the "village"-type communities.

Jay,
I’m not sure if you realize that this is the rate for apartments not assisted living. You are comparing Apples to Oranges. Additionally, I live on Chapel road and as of now we have about 30 to 40 single homes on this road. I can’t imagine the impact of another 250 to 310 people who drive on this road.

Tom, the information in this story references apartments, but I assure you this is an assisted living complex with individual residential units. I met with Andrew Teeters (the lead for Brightview's development team) as he approached myself and the two other members of the Forge Reserve HOA this past August. This is actually old news to us, I can forward the site plans on to Emily for her to post. Few, if any, of the residents will be driving from what we were told and they are not seeking a new traffic light on Belair Rd. The facility will have only one entrance, Belair Rd. near the new Firestone Tire. The target competition for this facility would be places like Quail Run Assisted Living in Parkville, not places like Oakcrest Village. For residents that are able, they will have shuttles to get them to local businesses (hair salons, grocery stores, medical appointments, etc). After speaking with Mr. Teeters and Councilman David Marks, we were confident that the impact to the community will be minimal and gave Brightview only a list of a few impact items for them to consider as our new neighbors (lighting, foot traffic of employees, landscaping, etc.).

Tom, I uploaded the plans that were shared with our HOA for distribution to our community and at our last (public) HOA meeting. As you can see, there is no impact to Chapel Rd. and again, these residents will not be driving (although the 24/7 staff will have to commute to work). This should also bring dozens of new jobs to the area.

I believe Perry Hall is being misled as to what is going to be build here. First we were told that a new Affortable Senior Community will be build near the Shopping Area to help keep the stores thriven, than you say this is an Assisted Living Complex where you say, a few, if any of the risident will be able to drive, so how can they help keep our neighborhood thriving when they are unable to drive and can't walk to the stores.
It seems Perry Hall will be taking care of Brightview not the other way around, We were told an AFFORTABLE Apartment complex was coming to Perry HALL.
when did it all change from 60+ Appartments TO ASSISTANT LiVING.

Jay, "the impact to the community will be minimal and gave Brightview only a list of a few impact items for them to consider as our new neighbors (lighting, foot traffic of employees, landscaping, etc.)." Has your HOA considered the impact of to local emergency services? Communites of this nature add significant call volume to an already stressed EMS system. All this on top of 50 new homes to be built around the same time, which will add 100 plus new residents to the area. Im not against this project, as more senior housing is needed but the impact to EMS needs to be considered and solutions implemented beforehand. I would also call into question the "Luxury" complex as what is really needed is affordable housing.

At least 25% of the units should be set aside for Section 8 tenets. Its important to maintain economic and racial diversity in Perry Hall. Not everyone can afford to own a home, but that doesn't mean they should be stuck with second rate city schools or have to deal with all the crime in the city.

It's a good issue to consider for the County Council, but since the development zoning was already approved and EMS personnel staffing is a County management function, we can only hope that some of the taxes generated on the $10M+ senior project and the proposed $20M - $25M residential project will go to additional EMS funding.

I am not sure where the term "luxury" came from, but I don't think they are going for a high-end clientele, the term luxury was never used in our meetings. This may have been coined due to the confusion of standard senior apartments vs. assisted living residences.

There is another development planned behind the Safeway (not related to this project) towards Chapel Rd. for low cost senior housing - I have no idea where that project is in the approval process, but I believe that property will have its entrance on Chapel Rd. Maybe Emily could inquire about that one?

I think it would be helpful for Patch to work with the County to list a page of the the current zoning/development plans in the area. This is all public record so it shouldn't be a secret to the community - the Patch is a good resource for sharing this information whether you are in favor of development or not, at least you can have the chance to do something about it when you have the knowledge.

As it took me 21 minutes this evening to get from the Belair Rd. North ramp at 695 to Honeygo Blvd. (5.5 miles), I am certainly in favor of down-zoning when and where possible.

Hope is about all you can do. The problem is that once these developments are built they impact the system forever. The system expands and so does the cost to operate the system.

The Belair road corridor will recieve more and more traffic and in a few years be a parking lot every morning and evening during rush hours. So far in less then a square mile we have 50 new homes, two senior houseing projects, and a housing development going in at Chapel Rd and Cross Rd. Thats alot of addtional traffic and impact to the community in every aspect. Imagine the traffic on Chapel Rd when this is all done, and there are no plans to improve that road at all. Bottom line is we are building too much too fast. Infastructure and impact on schools and emergency services needs to be considered first before we build anymore.

well said mr,lutostanski i've lived on chapel rd. my whole life and they have ignored making improvments and its not right they make stupid remarks like they don't want to take away the integrity of the the road what acop out.!!t.g. likens 64 year resident of chapel rd.