Politics & Government

Assisted Living Facilities Given Conditional Use Permits To Expand

City Council also approved two natural gas contracts.

Council members passed two ordinances Thursday night to allow both Westlake Village and a conditional use permit to expand. The Gardens at Westlake will be and 20 new employees by late summer.

The brand-new 24-bed expansion will be exclusively for Alzheimer's patients, and others with memory loss or dementia. New technologies like sleep monitoring systems and high security systems will be installed in the new building.

“I definitely think what residents are going to find is it’s not an area in the building we locked and created a supervised area,” said Christina Melarango, executive director at The Gardens at Westlake. “This is going to be innovative but I think what a lot of locked communities lack is the whole building is customized with their diseases in mind.”

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Council also approved a conditional use for a high-tech trampoline facility on Viking Parkway, just north of Paramount Tennis Court. The new facility will have six indoor trampoline courts when completed.

Members also approved contracts with Volunteer Energy Services, Inc. and Hess Corp. for natural gas service to various city buildings and the Recreation Center, respectively.

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Mayor Dennis Clough explained the reasoning for two separate contracts is that smaller city buildings do not qualify for the same discount as the Recreation Center.


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