SOLON, Ohio – Vitalia Active Adult Community at Solon, the city’s newest senior housing complex, is planning to build an addition.
City Council approved a site plan for the addition, along with 11 variances that had been recommended for approval by the city’s Planning Commission, on Monday (Oct. 19).
The Planning Commission had recommended approval on Sept. 29. Council tabled the agenda item on Oct. 5 to gather more information.
Vitalia at Solon, located at 6050 Kruse Drive, offers independent living, assisted living and memory care units.
It was developed by Solon-based Omni Senior Living. Several of the variances dealt with Omni’s adjacent corporate office at 33095 Bainbridge Road.
The site plan passed, 6-1, with five contingencies that were recommended by the Planning Commission. Vice Mayor and Ward 5 Councilwoman Nancy Meany cast the dissenting vote.
“I think it’s an overdevelopment of the site,” Meany said. "I think the residents probably aren’t going to be real happy with adding another building to this.
“I’m very thrilled that they’re doing so well that they feel they’re going to have a need for another building. But I look at it as an overdevelopment of the site.”
Before council’s vote, Meany told Gary Biales, vice president of development for Omni Senior Living, that she has no issues with what Omni currently has in place with Vitalia at Solon.
“I went and visited before residents moved in,” she said. “It’s a beautiful place; you did a beautiful job.”
Meany added she has some concerns about several retention ponds or basins located on the site.
“All of us (on council) know when there’s heavy rains, it floods on Bainbridge Road,” she said.
Biales told council that Vitalia at Solon opened Sept. 1 with a total of 149 units. He said 89 of those units are used for independent living, 40 are for assisted living and 20 are for memory care.
The new building would add 30 more units, he said. All would be either one-bedroom or two-bedroom apartments.
“One reason we want to expand is we know there’s a need in Solon,” Biales told the Planning Commission on Sept. 29. “Even with COVID, the project filled up faster than any of our other projects.”
Omni has developed five other Vitalia senior living communities in the Greater Cleveland/Akron area, according to its website, omniseniorliving.com.
“We found out that more people in Solon want to have covered parking, so with this expansion, we want to add more covered parking,” Biales told the Planning Commission.
Four of the variances approved had to do with parking, including location and number of spaces.
Five contingencies
City Law Director Thomas Lobe said he wanted to make sure that the five contingencies for the site plan recommended by the Planning Commission were spelled out and that Biales would agree to them before council voted.
The contingencies were compliance with memos from the city’s engineering and fire departments and the completion of three agreements between the owners of the senior living facility and the corporate office: a cross-parking agreement, a cross-access agreement and a stormwater easement.
“With regard to the cross access and cross parking, even though we have related owners, those are treated as variances,” said Lon Stolarsky, the city’s assistant law director. “But in the future, the owners may not be related, and they may not be in a friendly situation, so we wanted those (agreements) to basically remain in perpetuity if the owners did change in some fashion.”
City Engineer John Busch said the stormwater easement is necessary because the site plan shows some of the proposed retention basins are splitting the property line, “which means they’ll be on both property lines,” and the two properties have different owners.
Lobe said the city will grant Biales increments of three months in which he must comply with the contingencies of the law, engineering, planning and fire departments.
“If he needs more time, all he has to do is ask for more,” Lobe said. “Everything has to be completed within one year.”
Biales said he agreed to comply with the various contingencies.
“I realize we have to get the paperwork worked out for that, and it will be done,” he said.
Halloween set for 6-8 p.m.
Meany noted the city will celebrate Halloween from 6-8 p.m. on Oct. 31. She reminded trick-or-treaters that if a porch light is not on, that means that family does not wish to participate.
“But have fun, kids,” she said.
On the city’s website, trick-or-treaters are also asked to follow these guidelines:
· Those older than age 2 and any person handing out candy should wear a face mask.
· “Group” buckets, in which multiple children may reach and retrieve treats, are discouraged. Instead, with a gloved hand, distribute candy individually.
· Assign one person in the home, preferably an adult, to hand out the treats.
· Avoid going door-to-door in clusters.
· Trick-or-treat with people from your own household.
· Bring and use hand sanitizer.
Fire Chief Mark Vedder reminded drivers to be cautious during those hours and asked children to wear reflective clothing and to use flashlights so their faces are visible.
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