Panel OKs Housing Project for Seniors

Plans to construct a senior housing facility for patients of Alzheimer’s disease and others in need of special help have been approved by the Camarillo Planning Commission.

Elder Care Alliance of Oakland wants to build a 65,600-square-foot facility on a 1.8-acre parcel at the southeast corner of Ponderosa Drive and Antonio Avenue.

The facility, which is expected to be completed by spring 2000, will accommodate 90 residents, including 60 assisted living units and beds for 30 Alzheimer’s patients. It will also include a general store, mail room, lounge, dining facility, activity room, chapel and beauty shop for the assisted living residents.

“The planning commissioners were very supportive of this project and didn’t request any revisions of the proposal,” said Robert Burrow, Camarillo’s assistant director of planning and community development.

“The only questions they had were with regard to the history of Elder Care Alliance . . . as well as questions to verify the makeup of the rooms and the services to be provided.”

The commission also approved on a 5-0 vote a request by Martin Teitelbaum of Westlake Village to build a single-story industrial building on a one-acre site on the west side of Calle San Pablo.