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Assisted-living project stuck on flood plan

Date Added: 01-12-2005

Planning for a worst case scenario - a flood - has delayed the approval of an assisted-living facility in Weiser,ID.  Read the excerpt below.

Weiser Signal American - Weiser,ID,USA

by Rob Ruth

Plans for an assisted-living facility on Weiser’s east side are in most respects ready for implementation and have been for quite a while.
Developers, however, haven’t been having the easiest time satisfying local authorities’ demand for information about what happens in the event of a flood.

The challenge is one of giving local emergency response departments a workable game plan — complete especially with destinations — for transporting residents whenever the waters rise.

Weiser city officials and local law enforcement chiefs aren’t suffering from over-active imaginations. The site for the proposed facility lies in the 100-year floodplain and was underwater as recently as Jan. 1, 1997, the date of Washington County’s last big flood.

Mike Clayson of Weiser Development LLC applied to the City of Weiser over a year ago for a conditional use permit. It would allow construction of an assisted-living complex on his piece of bare ground located on the north side of East Commercial Street east of East Twelfth. His design calls for a complex serving 32 residents, but the permit would allow a facility occupied by as many as 42.

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