Frankfort Board Approves Plan For Assisted Living Center

FRANKFORT, IL — The Frankfort Village Board of Trustees at its Monday meeting gave the green light for plans to move forward on an assisted living facility, which will be located at 8531 W. Lincoln Highway.

The board voted 5-0 to accept the recommendation of the Plan Commission for a special use permit for Oasis Senior Living, Inc. Trustee Daniel Rossi was absent.

The facility will have 82 residential living units, according to Village documents. Of those, 31 will be studio units, 21 will be 1-bedroom units and four will be 2-bedroom units. There will also be 26 memory care units.

The development was met with some criticism from those who live in the area where the facility will be located. Village documents show several residents expressed their concerns during a public hearing Sept. 22 by the Plan Commission and a separate earlier neighborhood meeting Aug. 23 with Oasis Senior Living.

Some of the concerns residents expressed were a loss of green space, the potential for increased traffic flow, excessive noise from delivery trucks and a general distaste for the overall aesthetics that some thought the facility would create.

Oasis Senior Living and Village staff addressed residents' concerns by making changes to the original plan brought before the Plan Commission/Zoning Board of Appeals March 10 workshop, including increasing the size of landscape buffers, possibly adjusting delivery truck times to later in the morning, adding a retaining wall and moving the facility's trash enclosure further away from residents' townhomes.

Assistant Village Administrator John Burica said the facility is consistent with the Village's Comprehensive Plan and welcomed the public's comments.

"[Residents] came to the board meeting, they expressed their concerns, and the board welcomes the public's input," Burica said.