Seniors Care Facility OKd for Old Park Site
The city Planning Commission has approved a proposal to build an assisted-living home for senior citizens, the first of its kind in the city, on the site of Old Agoura Park.
The facility will offer 164 units for senior citizens who want to live in their own rooms but need daily assistance with preparing food, personal care and transportation, according to the plan submitted by Agoura Oaks L.L.C.
“It’s kind of an old-fashioned rooming house for seniors where they have their meals cooked for them,” said Planning Commissioner Phil Ramuno.
In 1991, the City Council allowed for private development of the 2.6-acre site, west of Chesebro Road and south of Driver Avenue, in exchange for a new nine-acre park about a block away. The city approved the development of a condominium complex at the former park, but it was never built and the property was sold, said Planning and Community Development Director David Anderson.
Under the new plan, the property would house a two-story, 94,000-square-foot building whose residents are expected to be, on average, between 84 and 87 years old.
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