Fairfax County community upset over plans to turn house into a retirement home

FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. – Citizens in a Fairfax County community are anxious following getting out a team home is moving to the community. 

Vienna Manor Assisted Dwelling has purchased a household on Carrington Lane for senior citizens. 

It is approved by the point out, but neighbors would like they ended up able to supply input before this all arrived to fruition. 

Nearby resident Gia McCarthy suggests the group is a “peaceful, silent put” and she would like it to stay that way. 

“The targeted visitors with health-related supplies, trash, deliveries, just alter our tranquil very little neighborhood far more into a small business and I recognize that seniors will need assist and a put to remain, but it’s possible on a busy corner of the neighborhood in which there is now a lot of traffic,” she stated. 

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Numerous associates of the neighborhood are also apprehensive about safety and house values going down. 

FOX 5’s Sierra Fox spoke to Vienna Manor Assisted Living’s operator who says the business has bought about a dozen houses in Fairfax County and correctly turned them into group homes. 

The proprietor defined that the enterprise is licensed by zoning and has asked for to have 8 residents – who are age 70 and up – keep in the household. There are also a few personnel customers who reside with them. 

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Meetings have been held to assistance make neighborhood customers sense far more cozy about the circumstance, the proprietor states. He believes they will never even comprehend it can be a retirement home for the reason that there would not be indications outdoors and the senior citizens will be silent neighbors. 

In a statement to FOX 5 DC, Vienna Manor Assisted Dwelling wrote, “I believe we offer you the care that our seniors deserve at this phase in their life, in a peaceful, pleasurable, home location.”

“It just seems to me like there would be a greater put for it,” states Bill McCarthy, a home-owner in the group. “This is a very tranquil cul-de-sac, and we’d like to preserve it that way.”

Fairfax County Governing administration issued the subsequent statement to FOX 5: “Fairfax County is committed to providing vibrant, resilient housing to our neighborhood that meets the modifying needs of our people. Assisted dwelling services like the one proposed allow seniors to continue to be in the neighborhoods they know and are the foundation of our powerful neighborhood.” 

The team house officially opens on Carrington Lane in the summertime.