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Sunrise senior living facility proposal hearing set

Date Added: 28-04-2005

A controversial senior living facility plan would like to take another step forward.
 
     Earlier this month, the conservation commission approved the proposal with a list of 90 conditions, and the planning board was scheduled to discuss it Tuesday night after the Forum went to press.
 
     Sunrise Assisted Living Center of Virginia wants to build at 618 Granite St., but this would require the demolition of an existing house there.
 
     What is under consideration is a facility which would contain 79 units within one building. 

 
     At the April 7 conclusion of an extended public hearing, five of the seven conservation commissioners voted to okay the project, with Chairman Henry Russell, Jr. and Angela Geso abstaining because they were unable to attend every session.
 
     Sunrise's plan worries several residents, among them Virginia O'Neil of Andersen Road.
 
     In interviews with the Forum, O'Neil explained that a neighborhood group was formed because the proposed building would be replacing a two-family house.
 
     "The run-off goes into Sunset Lake, which will inevitably become polluted," she said.
 
     O'Neil brought up another point.
 
     "The town spent a considerable amount of money three years ago to temporarily fix the flooding in neighbors' basements," she said. "If they touch any land there, this is going to cause flooding problems all over again. This land serves as a buffer for our neighborhood from the noise and other activity at Five Corners."
 
     The land was deemed undevelopable by the town in 1982, according to O'Neil.
 
     "The developer purchased it after this went into effect," she said. "We want to see the town purchase this land from the developer so that it can never be built on. It'll be open space."
 
     The conservation commission hired an independent, Braintree-based expert to look at the project.
 
     The property lies within the mapped overlay Watershed Protection District, which requires a maximum of 20 percent impervious area, according to Environmental Sciences Manager Robert Ingram of the Daylor Consulting Group, Inc.

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