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Apartments for seniors planned
Apartments for seniors planned
Apartment leases are expected to open eight months from building completion.
NEW SPRINGFIELD — Construction is expected to begin in June 2009 and take one year for a three-story, 72-unit senior citizens apartment complex, Springfield Township trustees have learned.
The complex will be called Wexford Village Senior Apartments.
In a letter read to the trustees, Daniel Terlecki, president of Bethel Development Inc. of Dublin, Ohio, said the apartments will be located just off East Western Reserve Road and consist of one- and two-bedroom apartments with monthly rent ranging from $342 to $680.
The project will use funding from the Housing Credit Program, Housing Development Assistance Program and Housing Development Loan Program, all independent state agencies devoted to making housing affordable.
Terlecki states in the letter the target population is households age 55 and older. The units are priced so that 5 percent are affordable to households with incomes at or below 35 percent of area median gross income, 55 percent to those below 50 percent of AMGI, and 40 percent to those below 60 percent.
The complex is expected to draw from the southwest quadrant of Youngstown and from Springfield, Beaver and Boardman townships.
Leases are expected to open eight months from building completion.
The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency also notified trustees in a letter that two 20-acre sites west of Springfield Road and north of Woodworth Road have applied for application of municipal sludge from Columbiana and appear acceptable for this purpose. Questions should be directed to Chris Moody at the Ohio EPA, (330) 963-1118. Trustees said they will find out more about this before determining whether to take any action.
Dominion East Ohio also notified trustees that they are asking the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio to approve a major pipeline replacement program.
The modernization will cost customers an additional $1.12 monthly beginning in November 2009, with annual adjustments after that limited to 90 cents per month, which amounts to about a 1 percent increase in annual bills.
Trustee Robert Orr said Petersburg will be one of the first locations to receive the new gas pipes, which will be installed when the waterline is installed there.
Road Superintendent Richard Kennedy announced that Sena Lane and Kerry Drive will be paved this year. Lipply Road will be tarred, and base and drainage improvements will be made to Maple Drive in New Springfield. Bids will be advertised for those projects.
Trustees set a special meeting to finalize the 2008 budget for 10 a.m. Thursday at the township building.
They approved paying Zinz Construction, Salem, $4,206 to repair water damage at Fire Station 23 in Springfield, and agreed to hire Canfield architect Thomas J. Keller to design plans for an office in that station. They also hired Kleen Sweep, New Middletown, to do road sweeping at $73 per hour, the same price as last year.