Monterey County supervisors decline proposed dense senior housing project amid affordability, location concerns

Monterey County supervisors punted Tuesday on a plan to build a senior care and assisted living facility with more than 100 units on a vacant lot near the Las Palmas Ranch subdivision south of Salinas.

The supervisors unanimously elected to send the project back to the county’s Planning Commission, amid concerns from the subdivision’s residents and homeowner’s association about the development’s proximity to the plot of single-family homes and about the affordability of the planned units.