BOA-24094 assisted living facility

Attorney representing the neighborhood group highlighted dangerous 61st Street traffic and introduced Russell Jacobson to present the group's factual case.

The closest neighbor laid out a detailed case: narrow dead-end streets fire trucks can't exit, staff and delivery traffic, drug-theft risk, ambulance sirens outside bedroom windows, falling property values, and a 158-signature petition.

A nearby resident confirmed buying in the neighborhood expecting rising values and noted Southern Hills Country Club traffic across the street.

The HOA president for 350 homes cited the neighborhood's single-family covenant and his wife's serious accident on 61st Street years ago.

A former city councilor who lives in the neighborhood stressed heavy 61st Street traffic and said the lack of community engagement is a deal-killer.

The lone supportive speaker argued an aging population needs options like this so residents can stay in the neighborhood they love.

A 40-year resident argued everyone bought under single-family zoning and that making exceptions for those who can afford them undermines uniform application of the law.

She lives on the tight cul-de-sac behind the site's rear driveway, described trucks that can't turn around, no sidewalks, kids in the street, and produced the original petition.

A nurse practitioner and rape survivor with PTSD said constant ambulance and fire truck lights and sirens would force her family to sell the home they bought for peace.

He summed up the opposition: the applicants knowingly bought into an R-1 area and converting the house to a commercial use is out of harmony with the code and covenants.