Warsaw Planners Approve Parkview Warsaw Development Plan
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
By Jennifer [email protected]
The board approved the request from Parkview Health System Inc. to allow medical offices and a facility in a commercially zoned district on 9.8 acres of property at 1355 Mariner Drive. The facility will be called Parkview Warsaw.
Warsaw Board of Zoning Appeals during its June 23 meeting approved a use variance to allow medical offices and a medical facility at the site.
Letting for project bids will be in October, construction is projected to begin in late November and the project is planned to be completed in October 2015, according to Peter Mallers, attorney for Beers, Mallers Backs & Salin, representing Parkview Health.
During Monday’s meeting, the commission approved the development plan with the following conditions: Parkview must still obtain a building permit from the state; the development must comply with the city’s erosion control ordinance; final development plan documents must be approved by the city engineer and planning department; and Parkview must enter into an approved agreement with the city of Warsaw outlining the nature of the proposed public improvements to be constructed.
Mallers said the project will be conducted in two phases. The first phase will include a 54,000 square-foot facility with physician offices, an imaging and diagnostic area, a rehabilitation laboratory and emergency services.
The second phase will include 30,000 square feet for ambulatory surgery services and in-patient needs.
There will be 164 parking spaces including handicap spaces. Due to the operation of a helicopter pad and the need for a clear zone for landing and takeoff, there will be trees planted along the west side of the parking lot with additional smaller landscaping provided within the clear zone.
Parkview has provided a detailed landscape buffer between the medical facility and the easterly residential development. The landscape buffer consists of a mound, privacy fence, two rows of spruce trees along Parkview’s property and the continuation of the mound and spruce trees along the southern portion of YMCA’s property.
Mallers said Mariner Drive will be extended to accommodate increased traffic and Parkview will be responsible for construction of the drive. The facility’s exterior materials will include two shades of grey for the metal exterior and brick and stone to complement that.
“We believe we do meet the legal test. We’ve made sure that we’ve satisfied the Indiana code, the comprehensive plan, and have development standards, compatibility with surrounding areas and availability of utilities,” Mallers said.
Mike Klondaris, commission member, asked the number of employees who would be hired to work at the medical facility.
Mallers said there will be approximately 100 employees.
The community had the opportunity to provide input on the medical facility during the meeting.
Judy Blubaugh, Silver Fox Homeowners Association president, encouraged Parkview to consider a landscape buffer for the whole west side of Silver Fox. She said residents in the addition had concerns with headlights that would come on their properties from those traveling to the medical facility.
“I am already noticing activity with people walking White Tail Drive cutting across the YMCA property that will get worse once the Y opens. We don’t want that happening, we are a retirement community and want to stay that way,” Blubaugh said.
Jeremy Skinner, city planner, said Parkview has agreed to install a fence along the entire portion of its property, and cannot control YMCA’s portion. Skinner said the YMCA’s portion is 100 yards of undisturbed woods so there will not be any headlights that will disturb the neighboring property.
Pat Coy, who lives near the facility, said once Mariner Drive is extended there will be a concern of headlights.
Skinner said there will be evergreen trees to serve as a buffer.
Nedra Dobbins, White Tail Run resident, said she would like a privacy and safety fence installed.
“If there is no fence from Parkview’s property all the way down to Lot 19 people will walk through White Tail Run into the Parkview YMCA facility and walk onto our property, and there will be no deterrent at all even with the evergreens and buffer there,” Dobbins said.
Mallers said Parkview committed to putting in trees the entire length of the buffer mound and the fence on Parkview’s property.
“What we said is we will talk with the Y. We can’t just take it on our own initiative to put a fence on their property,” Mallers said.
Steve Lawlor, Timberline Circle, Warsaw, asked if two hospitals can survive in Warsaw.
“I have history that goes back to 1940 and my grandmother was a nurse at the McDonald Hospital and they had to sell out to Murphy Medical Center because they couldn’t make it,” Lawlor said. “We aren’t big enough for two hospitals.”
He said he has concerns with the location of the medical facility, and said it will create a traffic nightmare.
Tom Allen, commission president, said that was outside the scope of the meeting.
Also during the meeting the commission approved a preliminary plat for Parkview Health System to create two new commercial lots from the original 37.23 acres north of Mariner Drive and east of U.S. 30.
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The board approved the request from Parkview Health System Inc. to allow medical offices and a facility in a commercially zoned district on 9.8 acres of property at 1355 Mariner Drive. The facility will be called Parkview Warsaw.
Warsaw Board of Zoning Appeals during its June 23 meeting approved a use variance to allow medical offices and a medical facility at the site.
Letting for project bids will be in October, construction is projected to begin in late November and the project is planned to be completed in October 2015, according to Peter Mallers, attorney for Beers, Mallers Backs & Salin, representing Parkview Health.
During Monday’s meeting, the commission approved the development plan with the following conditions: Parkview must still obtain a building permit from the state; the development must comply with the city’s erosion control ordinance; final development plan documents must be approved by the city engineer and planning department; and Parkview must enter into an approved agreement with the city of Warsaw outlining the nature of the proposed public improvements to be constructed.
Mallers said the project will be conducted in two phases. The first phase will include a 54,000 square-foot facility with physician offices, an imaging and diagnostic area, a rehabilitation laboratory and emergency services.
The second phase will include 30,000 square feet for ambulatory surgery services and in-patient needs.
There will be 164 parking spaces including handicap spaces. Due to the operation of a helicopter pad and the need for a clear zone for landing and takeoff, there will be trees planted along the west side of the parking lot with additional smaller landscaping provided within the clear zone.
Parkview has provided a detailed landscape buffer between the medical facility and the easterly residential development. The landscape buffer consists of a mound, privacy fence, two rows of spruce trees along Parkview’s property and the continuation of the mound and spruce trees along the southern portion of YMCA’s property.
Mallers said Mariner Drive will be extended to accommodate increased traffic and Parkview will be responsible for construction of the drive. The facility’s exterior materials will include two shades of grey for the metal exterior and brick and stone to complement that.
“We believe we do meet the legal test. We’ve made sure that we’ve satisfied the Indiana code, the comprehensive plan, and have development standards, compatibility with surrounding areas and availability of utilities,” Mallers said.
Mike Klondaris, commission member, asked the number of employees who would be hired to work at the medical facility.
Mallers said there will be approximately 100 employees.
The community had the opportunity to provide input on the medical facility during the meeting.
Judy Blubaugh, Silver Fox Homeowners Association president, encouraged Parkview to consider a landscape buffer for the whole west side of Silver Fox. She said residents in the addition had concerns with headlights that would come on their properties from those traveling to the medical facility.
“I am already noticing activity with people walking White Tail Drive cutting across the YMCA property that will get worse once the Y opens. We don’t want that happening, we are a retirement community and want to stay that way,” Blubaugh said.
Jeremy Skinner, city planner, said Parkview has agreed to install a fence along the entire portion of its property, and cannot control YMCA’s portion. Skinner said the YMCA’s portion is 100 yards of undisturbed woods so there will not be any headlights that will disturb the neighboring property.
Pat Coy, who lives near the facility, said once Mariner Drive is extended there will be a concern of headlights.
Skinner said there will be evergreen trees to serve as a buffer.
Nedra Dobbins, White Tail Run resident, said she would like a privacy and safety fence installed.
“If there is no fence from Parkview’s property all the way down to Lot 19 people will walk through White Tail Run into the Parkview YMCA facility and walk onto our property, and there will be no deterrent at all even with the evergreens and buffer there,” Dobbins said.
Mallers said Parkview committed to putting in trees the entire length of the buffer mound and the fence on Parkview’s property.
“What we said is we will talk with the Y. We can’t just take it on our own initiative to put a fence on their property,” Mallers said.
Steve Lawlor, Timberline Circle, Warsaw, asked if two hospitals can survive in Warsaw.
“I have history that goes back to 1940 and my grandmother was a nurse at the McDonald Hospital and they had to sell out to Murphy Medical Center because they couldn’t make it,” Lawlor said. “We aren’t big enough for two hospitals.”
He said he has concerns with the location of the medical facility, and said it will create a traffic nightmare.
Tom Allen, commission president, said that was outside the scope of the meeting.
Also during the meeting the commission approved a preliminary plat for Parkview Health System to create two new commercial lots from the original 37.23 acres north of Mariner Drive and east of U.S. 30.
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