Agenda Danville: Florida developer proposes assisted living units as part of housing development

Joe Cubas, a Florida-based developer, wants to bring a housing development with condominium and assisted living units to Goodyear Boulevard in Danville. The city’s planning commission will consider a rezoning application and special-use permit for this project at its Oct. 7 meeting.

After the commission’s recommendation to either approve or deny, these items will go before the city council for a final vote.

Cubas has submitted rezoning applications and special use permits to the city before, most notably for a luxury RV park near Jenny Lane in 2023. This project was voted down in Pittsylvania County before Cubas proposed it in Danville.

Resident opposition in Danville, including concerns about traffic and safety, hindered the project, and it was tabled indefinitely in June 2023.

Cubas officially pulled the proposal from consideration in early 2024, planning to build a subdivision on this land instead, which council approved in January. That 303-unit project will include single family homes.

Now, Cubas wants to build another housing development with 240 condominiums and 180 assisted living units. Several Danville city council candidates, as well as older residents, have said that the city needs more senior living housing options .

These numbers are speculative, according to the staff report in the commission’s agenda packet. The net developable acreage may decrease once stormwater, floodplain, floodway and utility easement restrictions are accounted for, it says.

The rezoning application requests that the two parcels be switched to a multifamily residential designation from highway retail commercial and threshold residential designations.

The special-use permit must be approved to develop senior and assisted living housing. If the permit is not granted, a higher percentage of the land could be eligible for development as condominium or multi-family structures, and 360 total units could be created, the report says.

Staff recommends approval of the rezoning and special-use permit applications, on the condition that a traffic impact analysis is completed.

The planning commission will also consider a special-use permit to allow a public utilities facility at a Mt Cross Road parcel.

Read the full agenda packet, and how to attend

The full agenda packet for the meeting, which is at 3 p.m. and will be livestreamed on River City TV’s Facebook page, can be found here .

The Industrial Development Authority will meet Oct. 8 to consider several lease agreements and contract items between the IDA and different businesses in the city.

The Oct. 10 River District Design Commission meeting was canceled due to a lack of cases being filed by the Sept. 26 deadline.

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