The facility opened three and a half years ago with 90 units.
LUDLOW - The Planning Board on Thursday approved an amended site plan for Keystone Commons at 460 West Street which will allow for a 10-unit addition to the assisted living facility.
Planning Board Chairman Christopher Coelho said he is satisfied with the plan now that the site plan shows the proposed parking for all of the units and the maximum sleeping capacity of the units.
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 patient needs help which relatives are unable to provide because of their work schedules, he said.
Sometimes elderly relatives are no longer eating right or taking their medicines on schedule, he said.
“They may have falling risk,” he added.
Keystone Commons proposed 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, Mielke said, in a three-story addition.
The proposed addition still needs the approval of the Conservation Commission.
Coelho said, “If something is wrong with the plan, the Conservation Commission will squash it even if we approve it.”
Mielke said the proposed work is outside the wetland buffer. He said Keystone Commons will maintain a detention basin as directed by the Conservation Commission.