MW Development Enterprises LLC, is proposing to build a 48 unit senior living apartment complex on the north west and south west corners of Spruce and Franklin Streets in Junction City.

That land would first need to be rezoned from General Commercial and mobile home park to a multiple family residential district. The rezoning is contingent on a housing tax credit application the developer has applied for through the Kansas Housing Resources Corporation.

“If it doesn’t go through, they anticipate before City Commission action they’ll just withdraw the application,” Dave Yearout, Zoning Administrator, explained. “If it gets approved it will be in the position to move forward.”

The north west section of Spruce and Franklin Streets will also need to be replated. But Yearout explained that the replat would also be contingent on the approval of the housing tax credit application.

Yearout said that when he spoke to the developer last he asked when they would know if the application had been accepted or not.

“He said it’s probably going to be close to the first of May. So this would not go on to the commission, either the rezoning or the plat, could be the end of April but he thought the first part of May.”

If the request is not approved the rezoning and re-plat will not go in front of the City Commission and the land will stay the way it is.