The Bristol Zoning Commission on Monday scheduled a public hearing on April 8 for a proposed 84-unit senior housing project.
The proposal is the third attempt by Joseph Naples, a Bristol resident who owns Plainville-based Laurel Meadows LLC, to develop more than 11 acres on Redstone Hill Road.
According to the application, Naples would build 84 residential senior housing units on a site that consists of six parcels and three single-family homes. While two of the homes would be retained and “segregated on two independent lots” at the far northeast and far northwest corners of the property, a third home in the center of the parcel and described as blighted would be removed.
The remaining properties would be combined into a single lot totaling 11.23 acres. On that lot, Laurel Meadows would construct three buildings, including a one-story community building and two apartment buildings — a two-story building with 36 units and a three-story building with 48 units, according to the application.
Of the 84 units, 65 would be two-bedroom apartments and 19 would be one-bedroom.
The parcels involved are identified as 560, 594, and 644 Redstone Hill Road, and lots 9B-1, 9B-2, 11, 11-2, 11-3, and 10-B-1 on assessor’s map 1.
Naples’ two previous applications met with stiff opposition. In 2020, his initial proposal seeking a zone change for a major multifamily luxury housing development aroused strong opposition from residents of single-family homes in the surrounding neighborhood.
In 2022, Naples won approval from the Zoning Commission for a special permit and site plan for 86 senior housing units, but that project was thwarted when the Inland Wetlands & Watercourses Agency rejected it in a 4-3 vote. That rejection is currently the subject of a lawsuit in New Britain Superior Court.
The new application seeks to circumvent that issue, stating that because of the way the project is configured it does not require wetlands approval.
