Title
Frye’s Care Home Conditional Use Permit, Special Permit, and Notice of Merger
Application Number 8894
Case Numbers CUP-13-020, SP-13-033, and NOM-13-010
Assessor’s Parcel Numbers 018-053-021 and 018-053-023
2240 Fern Avenue and 4040 Walnut Drive, Eureka
A Conditional Use Permit (CUP), Special Permit (SP), and Notice of Merger (NOM). The CUP would permit an approximately twenty-one thousand four-hundred forty-eight (21,448) square foot (SF) expansion of the exiting, approximately twenty-four thousand four hundred forty-one (24,441) SF Frye’s Care Home, an assisted living care facility for the elderly. The SP would allow a reduction in the required number of off-street parking spaces. The NOM would merge two (2) parcels into one (1) legal parcel to facilitate the proposed project. The existing facility currently has fifty-four (54) beds which was permitted and expanded under CUP-53-85, CUP-53-85M, CUP-20-89, and CUP-20-89M. Under the state permit, the facility is allowed fifty-eight (58) beds, and nine (9) employees. The proposed expansion would add approximately thirty (30) additional rooms with thirty-five to forty (35-40) new beds and additional staffing of four (4) employees at peak shift. Hours of operation would be maintained at the current twenty-four (24) hours a day seven (7) days a week.
Recommendation
Find the project exempt from environmental review pursuant to Section 15332, In-Fill Development Projects, and Section 15305(a), Minor Alterations in Land Use Limitations of the CEQA Guidelines, make all of the required findings for approval of the Conditional Use Permit, Special Permit, and Notice of Merger based on evidence in the staff report and any public testimony, and adopt the Resolution approving the proposed Frye’s Care Home expansion project subject to the recommended conditions.