{"id":7994,"date":"2021-06-16T22:22:09","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T03:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=7994"},"modified":"2021-06-25T16:50:30","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T21:50:30","slug":"keep-hinckley-rural-senior-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=7994","title":{"rendered":"Keeping Hinckley Rural &#8211; Senior Housing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I don&#8217;t think any survey with a 6% response rate is a reasonable basis for determining &#8220;what the township residents want&#8221; &#8230; desire for senior housing, called out in the 2015 comprehensive plan, seems reasonable. Two acres is a lot of property to look after, especially as you get older and getting around is more difficult. Walking the woods and mowing the grass &#8230; I could see this becoming a challenge. An apartment complex at the edge of town isn&#8217;t a popular solution, but how <em>could<\/em> the township make housing more appealing to older residents?<\/p>\n<p>To start out with, I think any high-density senior housing should be a unique zoning area. S1. Getting property re-zoned is a more difficult path than requesting a conditional use be permitted. There&#8217;s more leeway to <em>not<\/em> re-zone the parcel.<\/p>\n<p>Conservation development allows a development to bypass minimum lot sizes by using a combination of open spaces and private lots to average out to the minimum lot size. That is, if I have 200 acres in a two acre minimum district &#8230; I can develop a hundred one acre parcels and hold the other hundred acres as open space. What if we combine the high-density senior housing with a conservation development idea. A conservation development with small front, side, and rear yard setbacks that make quarter or half acre lots feasible. Then the senior development is enveloped in a huge area of maintained green space. This would allow for continued home ownership (I sure as hell don&#8217;t want to <em>start<\/em> paying a couple grand a month in rent after I retire!), minimize yard upkeep (part of the HOA fees could even go toward yard maintenance), and the rural environment is maintained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I don&#8217;t think any survey with a 6% response rate is a reasonable basis for determining &#8220;what the township residents want&#8221; &#8230; desire for senior housing, called out in the 2015 comprehensive plan, seems reasonable. Two acres is a lot of property to look after, especially as you get older and getting around is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1407],"tags":[1163,831,1049],"class_list":["post-7994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-township-governance","tag-bza","tag-township","tag-zoning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7994"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8008,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7994\/revisions\/8008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}