After two years of waiting for red tape to untangle, ground was broken Tuesday for the 100-unit senior housing complex on Naomi Avenue in West Arcadia.
Although the Arcadia City Council unanimously upheld a planning commission decision Tuesday night to permit the construction of a 97-unit retirement hotel at Michillinda Ave. and Sunset Blvd., an opponent said he plans to take court action against the project.
Although the completion of Naomi Gardens, the 100-unit senior housing development in West Arcadia, is nearly a year away, the city has been swamped with applications.
American Senior Living, a Santa Ana developer, broke ground on the $8.57 million gated apartment complex located on Las Tunas. Heritage Park of Arcadia will open in 2004 and will be for independent senior citizens age 62 and older.
Arcadia City Council considering leasing Par-3 golf course site south of Live Oak Avenue for major housing development. Would provide up to 587 housing units, including 72 rental units for senior citizens. Potential developer is Cadillac Fairview Development Co. of Newport Beach.
Arcadia City Council members decided to wait a month before signing an "exclusive right to negotiate agreement" for the development of city-owned property at 620 East Live Oak Avenue, site of the Par Three Golf Course.
City Council authorized the staff to prepare a sale agreement in the amount of $985,700 for the land to California Trinity Housing, Inc., the California borrower corporation for the Christian Senior Housing Foundation, Inc. of Decatur, Ga.
City Council has approved the expenditure of $295,000 for low income senior citizen and handicapped housing. Article explains how that money might be used.
The City Council met in special session to hear a presentation by Thomas Safran, a specialist in senior citizen housing. The Arcadia Senior Citizen Commission contends the council isn't moving fast enough on the issue. An advisory vote by the people on senior citizen housing will probably appear on the June primary ballot.
The City Council will loan developer American Senior Living $1.8 million to build Arcadia Heritage Park, , an affordable housing 54-unit apartment complex for low-income senior citizens.
City received word from office of Sen. Alan Cranston that 75 units (for low-income senior citizens) will be added to the 100 already promised by Dept. of Housing and Urban Development for the Naomi Avenue site in West Arcadia.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development has approved a loan of $6,148,200 to Senior Christian Housing Foundation, Inc. for construction of a 100 unit housing project for elderly and handicapped persons. A site has not yet been secured.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development has approved a site for a federally subsidized $6.2 million, 100-unit senior housing project to be located at 665 West Naomi Avenue.
If the Arcadia Planning Commission's Tuesday night meeting vote stands up on appeal to the city council, Arcadia will get a 97-room retirement hotel at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Michillinda Avenue.