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Planning Commission to consider low-income senior complex

Diana Sahagun

Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2000 | 10 a.m.

A site plan for a low-income senior housing complex in the North Las Vegas redevelopment will be considered by the Planning Commission Wednesday.

City staff planners have approved the plan, which, if approved by the Planning Commission, will go before the City Council for final approval.

Owens Limited Partnership is proposing the 72-unit senior apartment complex for the corner of Owens Avenue and Davis Place. According to the site plan, 58 one-bedroom apartments and 14 two-bedroom apartments are proposed for the 72 units. Amenities include common areas with landscaping, walkways, shuffleboard courts or a horseshoe pit, two outdoor plazas, a garden and a 3,500-square foot club house.

Owens is asking for waivers from the city's recently adopted design standards in regard to the number of carports, the distance from covered parking to the apartments, and landscaping.

The City Council voted unanimously on Dec. 13 to transfer 3.9-acres of city-owner land to the city's redevelopment agency for the complex. The redevelopment agency then voted unanimously to accept a $25,000 nonrefundable deposit from the developer and sign an agreement to build the Owens Senior Project.

The complex will be built through a partnership between Alliance Property Group, Kaufman & Broad and the Community Development Program Center of Nevada.

The complex comes as the Las Vegas Valley is experiencing an extreme shortage of affordable housing for the elderly.

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