BRADENTON – The City of Bradenton Planning Commission on Wednesday voted in favor of plans for a proposed assisted living facility off Morgan Johnson Road.
The facility will be built in two phases, each with 160 units, according to the plans presented by Caleb Grimes, an attorney who represents owners Richard Bennett and Matt Kezar. Each unit is approximately 99,000 square feet.
The property, located off 1015 57th Street East, near State Road 64, was annexed into the city last year. It has gone through several rezonings while still under county jurisdiction, but plans to develop it have fell through, said Bill Knecht, a resident who owns the property adjacent to it.
The Bennett-Kezar property is approximately 33 acres, Grimes said. The facility, named Cypress Creek Assisted Living Facility, will take up about 11.4 acres, and contains a retention pond.
”In our current economy, and as our society ages, there will be more and more need of this (kind of) low impact facility,“ Grimes told the planning commissioners in a meeting Wednesday.
Knecht told planning commissioners that he was concerned about the buffer between the pond and his property. He said he was assuaged by the fact that the developers and the city’s staff are willing to work with him on it.
”I’d rather see this than a Wal-Mart behind me,“ Knecht said.
Commissioners voted 6-0 (Commissioner Allen Yearick was absent) to bring the plans to the Bradenton City Council on July 21.
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