There is a waiting list of people who want to move into the assisted living community on West Street, project manager Frederick Mielke told the board.
Keystone Commons founder Victor J. Field, and Beth Cardillo, executive director of Keystone Commons, look over the exterior of the project under construction in 2007 at 450 West St. in Ludlow.LUDLOW - The Planning Board on Thursday continued until Dec. 8 a proposal to add 10 one-bedroom units to Keystone Commons, an independent assisted living facility at 460 West Street.
The facility opened three and a half years ago with 90 units.
There has been a waiting list at the facility, project manager Frederick Mielke told the Planning Board.
He said there is demand for additional units by Ludlow residents who do not want to move their relatives out of town.
Sometimes an elderly parent needs help which relatives are unable to provide because of their work schedules, Mielke said.
Sometimes elderly relatives are no longer eating right or taking their medications on schedule, he said.
“They may have a falling risk,” Mielke said.
Keystone Commons is proposing to add a 1,000-square-foot addition to the existing 48,000-square-foot structure and to increase the number of units from 90 to 100.
The plan is to build nine more studio apartments and one, one-bedroom unit, he said, in a three-story addition.
In response to a question raised by the Fire Department, Mielke said all the units will be served by a sprinkler system.
The Planning Board will act on the proposed addition at its Dec. 8 meeting. Keystone Commons was asked to provide the maximum number of residents who will be housed in the facility.