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Old Posted Feb 6, 2012, 11:09 PM
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Gotta say the housing is needed. From the Ithaca Journal:



Conifer Senior Living is a proposed 72-unit senior housing project on West Hill. The project will be in front of the Planning Board for preliminary approval Tuesday night. / GRAPHIC PROVIDED


West Hill senior housing project up for preliminary approvals

10:10 PM, Feb. 5, 2012
Written by
Rachel Stern


Ithaca -- A 72-unit senior housing project on West Hill will be in front of the Town of Ithaca Planning Board Tuesday night.

The Conifer Senior Housing Development is up for preliminary site plan approval and preliminary subdivision approval. If granted, the project would then go in front of the Town Board for rezoning consideration and then back to the Planning Board for final site plan approval.

The project, off West Hill Drive south of the Overlook Apartments, involves developing five acres of property for a three-story, 72-unit senior housing building. It would be on a new road off West Hill Drive. The project includes new sidewalks, storm water facilities, parking, a community garden, signs, lighting and landscaping.

The project would also involve rezoning 4.8 acres from a medium-density residential zone -- meant for single-family homes -- to a multiple-residence zone.

Back in September, when sketch plans were presented, the Planning Board requested that the project include a larger community garden, trees on some parking islands and a copy of a study demonstrating a need for senior housing in the area.

The Conifer project is one of two West Hill projects that are exempt from a year-long moratorium on new construction in a portion of West Hill. The area affected is a medium-density residential area between Trumansburg and Mecklenburg roads, east of EcoVillage and Hayts Road.

Town Supervisor Herb Engman said in July, when the moratorium was adopted, that Conifer would be exempt because senior housing is needed in the town.

Cornell University is the owner. The applicant is Conifer Realty LLC. John Caruso and Passero Associates is the agent. Cornell owns the 35-acre property across from the Museum of the Earth and Conifer is obtaining these five acres to build the senior housing development, Planning Director Sue Ritter said.



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http://www.theithacajournal.com/arti...text|FRONTPAGE
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