Manteca’s fourth residential assisted care complex is moving closer to breaking ground.
It is one of 84 building permit applications now being reviewed by the City of Manteca that have a combined construction value of $24.9 million.
The $9.8 million complex is being built near the Kaiser Permanente hospital.
Sandip Patel is the developer of the 116-bed residential care facility. The two-story, 72,401-square-foot Manteca Assisted Living building is planned for 2.7 acres facing West Yosemite Avenue on the southeast corner of the Fishback Road intersection.
The project will install sidewalk along Fishback Road to provide safer walking to Sierra High for students that will live in a new neighborhood being developed at Crom Street and Airport Way on the western border of the municipal golf course.
The facility will have two wings. A two-story assisted living facility will have 60 units housing 91 beds using a mixture of studios and bedrooms. The one-story assisted memory care wing will have 25 single-bed studio units.
Off-street parking will be along the southern and eastern property lines. A secondary access will be from Fishback Road
The one-story memory wing will be on the southern part of the parcel about 72 feet from adjacent residential properties. The two-story wing will be near the northwest corner of the site. The second floor windows facing south are about 300 feet from nearby homes.
A 10-foot landscaping buffer consisting of shrubs as well as deciduous and evergreen trees will also be placed next to the homes. A three-foot steel fence is proposed along the western, northern and eastern property lines.
It would be the city’s fourth large-scale residential care facility. The others are Prestige Senior Living, Brookdale, and the Commons at Union Ranch.
There are also plans for 28 single family homes currently being reviewed by the city. That is one less than the 30 single family home permits issued in March with a combined valuation of $10.2 million.
April activity represents a 40 percent drop off in new home sales in the first full month of the pandemic. Unlike the so-called Great Recession that started in 2008 and was sharpened by the mortgage meltdown put in play by liar loans, the hit on new housing starts has been softer.
Before the pandemic hit and given the fact January and February are traditionally the slowest months for new home sales Manteca was heading toward 840 new home sales this year — a significant jump over 2019.
If the rate of 30 homes a month — based on April permits and the 28 housing permits now being reviewed — continues until year’s end Manteca will still end up building 408 new single family homes. Toss in apartments being built on Lathrop Road and Atherton Drive east of Bass Pro Shops Manteca could end the year with 740 additional housing units.
Manteca issued 43 permits for solar energy panels for homes valued at $748,000 in April. That brings the total for the first three months of the year to 268 with a combined value of $5.1 million.
If solar installations continue at their current pace they will hit 1,072 by year’s end. That will top last year’s record 1,024 residential solar power systems being installed.
To contact Dennis Wyatt, email dwyatt@mantecabulletin.com
