Citizen Participation Final Report

City of Glendale — Regular Meeting (2025-05-08)

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CITIZEN
PARTICIPATION
PLAN
FINAL REPORT

Project Name – Brightest Light Senior Living, LLC
Location – 5415 W St John Rd, Glendale, AZ 85308
Case Number – VAR25-01
Failed
BY
DATE
Conditionally Approved
Approved

Sydney Tirella
4/4/2025
City of Glendale
Development Services Department
Planning Division
VAR25-01 Citizen Participation Final Report

CITIZEN PARTICIPATION PLAN
FINAL REPORT

Project Name:

Brightest Light Senior Living, LLC
Location:

5415 W St John Rd, Glendale, AZ 85308
Case Number:

VAR25-01

Brief Description of Project:
This is a disability accommodation request being made to
increase operation from 5-bed to 10-bed assisted living home
(supervisory care, personal care, and directed care levels of
care) within 1200 feet of another assisted living home in R1-
7 PRD zoning district.

Overview of Elements
CP Plan Submitted to Project Planner:
02/04/2025
of Citizen Participation Plan
Estimated Plan Implementation Date:
03/10/2025
Citizen Input Time:

03/10/2025 – 03/24/2025
Neighborhood Meeting:

03/24/2025
CP Final Report Submittal Date:

04/03/2025

Notification Letters / Notices
March 10, 2025 – See Attached Affidavit of Mailing,
Mailing / Posting Date
Affidavit of Posting, and Affidavit of Removal

Map of Notification Area
See Attached Notification Area Map

Citizen Meeting Date / Location
March 24, 2025, at 6:00 PM, virtually via Zoom

No. of Individuals Notified
630 (less 15 returned mail)

Concerns, Issues, and
One individual showed up to the neighborhood meeting.
Problems Expressed

Her concern was that no businesses of any kind should be
allowed in the neighborhood – i.e. nobody should be allowed
to work from home for any reason.

One individual called in to the City before the meeting. That
individual’s concern was that the home is not adequately
sized for more residents, businesses should not be allowed
in residential areas, and the residents may cause a nuisance.

Concerns, Issues, and
City codes are already clear that running a business from
Problems Addressed
home, which is not unique to this facility or this request,
is permitted in residences within city limits.

Arizona Administrative Code R9-10-525(C)7(e) and (f)
provide that an Assisted Living Facility’s resident

bedrooms, if private, must have at least 80 square feet of
floor space, not including a closet or bathroom, and if
shared, must have at least 60 square feet of floor space for
each individual occupying the shared bedroom, not
including a closet or bathroom. The home has 5 bedrooms,
all of which are over 120 square feet, excluding closets and
bathrooms – the amount of space required to have 2
residents per room for a total of 10 residents. See attached
Floor Plan that was included with the initial application.

Concerns, Issues, and Problems
None
Unable / Unwilling to Address

Revision Made to
None of the concerns raised were a valid impediment to the
Address Public Concern
granting of this petition. Thus, no revision was necessary.

Copies of Letters, Affidavits,
See Attached Neighborhood Meeting Letter, the Letters in
Meeting Invitations, and
Support Received for this petition, and Letters of
Letters For or Against, etc.
Recommendation the Facility received over the years.
No Letters Against Received.

Complete Mailing List
See Attached Mailing List Appendix

NEIGHBORHOOD NOTIFICATION AREA
NAME / TYPE OF REQUEST:
Brightest Light
LOCATION: 5415 West St. John Road, Glendale, AZ 85308
REQUEST:
The applicant is requesting the Board of Adjustment approval for a
disability accommodation to permit the operation of a six (6) to ten
(10) resident Assisted Living Group Home five hundred and
seventeen (517) feet of another existing Group Home.
ZONING DISTRICT:
R1-8 PRD (Single Residence, Planned
Residential Development)
COUNCIL DISTRICT:
C h o l l a
FORMAL APPLICATION SUBMITTED: February 18, 2025

Brightest Light
Senior Living, LLC
5415 W St John Rd | Glendale, AZ 85308
(602) 819-9009
BrightestLight.AZ@gmail.com
March 10, 2025
re:
City of Glendale Disability Accommodation
Brightest Light Senior Living

Case # VAR25-01
Dear Neighbor,
This letter is to inform you that we have submitted a Disability Accommodation
Application to the City of Glendale. The property is located at 5415 W St John Rd in the
Cholla District.
This is a disability accommodation request being made to permit an increase from a 5-
bed assisted living home (supervisory care, personal care, and directed care levels of
care) to a 10-bed assisted living home (same levels of care) within 1,200 feet of another
10-bed assisted living home in the R1-7 PRD zoning district to allow for the care of a couple
of disabled individuals who wish to reside there. We are not requesting any change to
square footage, lot size, setbacks, building heights, current zoning, proposed zoning,
adjacent properties, or surrounding land use.
Our assisted living home has been located at this address for over two decades. Our
home and property are always well-maintained and clean. We have always complied
with all the requirements of the HOA. In fact, we have approval for this request from the
HOA as we will not be making any changes to the outside of the home, keeping it in the
same character and style as the other homes in the neighborhood.

Our residents are pleasant folk who generally keep to themselves. They are elderly
parents and grandparents who live together so they can get a little extra help with
getting dressed, eating, bathing, getting around, keeping house, and remembering
things that come to mind a little harder than they used to come. We have never had a
complaint that any of them bothered anyone or were a nuisance. Any medications
(including anything over the counter or non-prescription) are kept under lock-and-key
and given out only as allowed by a doctor, making it nearly impossible for anyone to
take more (or less) than they should of any given medication. While addictions affect
every class, level, age, gender, and race of society, any resident affected by addiction
(and those are few and far between) is under better care with us than if they were living
almost anywhere else.
Our property is located on a corner lot with plenty of parking. None of our residents drive
or keep vehicles at the house. We rarely have more than one or two visitors at the home
at any given time. Our visitors never park on the street or cause excessive traffic on
neighborhood streets, and it is extremely rare for us to have overnight guests.
We have included a site plan with this letter for your review. A neighborhood meeting will
take place virtually on 03/24/2025 at 6:00 pm via Zoom. The details of the Zoom meeting
are on the Zoom Invitation below. If you are unable to attend, please write, email, or call
us at the contact information above. You may also contact Sydney Tirella for the City of
Glendale at (623) 930-2588 or stirella@glendaleaz.com. Comments must be received by
Monday, 03/24/2025.
For additional details about this project or to be added to the Interested Parties mailing
list, scan the following QR code:

Respectfully,
Loredana Pop
Assisted Living Facility Manager
Encl:
Notification Area Map
Aerial Map
ZOOM MEETING INVITATION

INtouch Care Management and Brightest Light Senior Living
are inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting:

Topic: City of Glendale Zoning Meeting Case # VAR25-01
Time: March 24, 2025, at 06:00 PM, Arizona Time

Meeting ID: 823 1444 0946 | Passcode: 390225

ONLINE: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82314440946?pwd=
bFCX2l9qKa2kCERh8h5QDOj0tIAcKm.1

ONE TAP MOBILE: (305) 224-1968, then 82314440946#, then
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