CHINO VALLEY - Developers say they could break ground on the $12 million assisted living apartment complex in the spring of 2010.
The Summit, which comprises 178, one- and two-bedroom units, is the first phase of JC Ranch and Josal Enterprises' 170-acre 55-plus community in Chino Valley.
However, before that can happen, Michael Cordovana, a spokesman for Josal Enterprises, told the approximately 70 Chino Valley residents at Tuesday's Neighborhood Meeting at the Windmills Farms Clubhouse, the Chino Valley Planning and Zoning Commission and Town Council must approve its rezoning request and proposed planned area development.
The developers also have to get a traffic and water study completed and approved.
The Cordovanas propose to build the development on the northwest corner of West Road 4 North and Road 1 West on Windmill Farms property.
Pat Clingman, Chino Valley's deputy development services director, said the project owners went back to the drawing board after getting more than 100 comments at their October neighborhood meeting.
Ab Jackson, Chino Valley Chamber of Commerce's executive director, said current plans call the center of The Summit complex to be three stories. The complex on 20.56 acres also will have a restaurant, beauty salon, theater and chapel. Residents asked if the Chino Valley Fire Department has equipment to fight fires in three-story buildings. Cordovana said they still have to meet with the fire department.
Jackson said the community, which the developers propose to build out over a 20-year period, also includes:
• 376 apartments in multiple buildings, but the Cordovana's plans do not show how many;
• The Gardens, which consists of 135 senior independent living duplex units;
• The Retreat, a 100-bed, two-story skilled nursing center;
• Light Commercial, which contains four 5,000-square-foot, one-story buildings for retail boutique stores, ice cream and coffee parlor, pet services, barber, beauty salon, dry cleaners, jewelry/watch repair, business and professional offices and printing and publishing services;
• Medical and Professional Offices - four 5,000-square-foot one-story buildings for medical and related offices, laboratory collection and pharmacy;
• And another area the plan identifies as Light Commercial that includes the existing clubhouse, 60 two-story overnight guest rentals, 5,000-square-foot restaurant and coffee shop, and a nursery greenhouse.
Joe Cordovana's existing one-story home will remain.
Michael Cordovana said the residents at the October meeting were mainly concerned about traffic and water.
To cut the impact of the increased traffic, he said they reduced the entrances and exits to four.
Maurice Lee, owner of Development Resources, said the hydrology studies will not be done for 90 days. Those studies, he said, will tell the developers if they have a 100-year assured supply of water.
Jackson said between 1,550 and 2,000 employees will work on the project during the 20-year build out.
The total development, he said, could bring the town $7,930,509 in impact fees and another $1,101,432 in annual sales tax.
The impact fees and sales tax would help offset the $5 million the 10,000 Chino Valley residents are spending elsewhere while working outside the community, and the $25 million half of those residents spend in other communities for groceries, movies, dinners, shopping and cultural attractions, Jackson said.
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