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Welcome to the Preserve SRC Campus web site
(SRC stands for the
Saratoga Retirement Community)

Preserve SRC Campus is an information organization with the goal:

To preserve the SRC campus, our home, as a rural and open space campus and to find a better way for the long term future of SRC than packing the campus with new buildings and underground garages.

Members of the group act as individuals. The group, including this web site, is a way of disseminating information upon which individuals may act if they so choose.

The group was formed in response to an Expansion Plan submitted to the City of Saratoga by Pacific Retirement Services (PRS), who manage the Saratoga Retirement Community for the Odd Fellows Home of California.
A number of residents have developed an Alternate Proposal which they have submitted to Saratoga City for consideration as part of the Environmental Impact Review (EIR).

Do you support the Alternate Proposal? If so, then please click or tap here to send us an email and let us know and please send your comments to the City. Thank you.

Update, December 10th: The City held a Community Meeting on November 16th and the EIR Public Scoping Meeting on December 9th. Videos of both meetings are on the City Comment tab.

The Saratoga Falcon published an article on December 3rd entitled Senior and local residents advocate for an alternative to the proposed construction at the Saratoga Retirement Community.

What is the PRS Proposal?

PRS are proposing to add 52 Independent Living apartments in three buildings, as shown in the following campus map:

PRS Proposal map
They are also proposing to add a new meeting room and an extension to the existing fitness center. The three residential buildings would all have underground parking. The proposal also includes a new emergency access to the campus from Chester Road (opposite McLaren Lane, not shown on the above map).

What are our concerns?

Our concerns are that

Our concerns are summarized in the following marked-up campus map:

PRS Proposal
        Concerns

In this chart,
red no-no shows proposed buildings that we feel destroy the heart of the campus, and
yellow no-no shows a building that is too large and impacts nearby trees

The Alternate Proposal

A number of residents have developed an alternate proposal and submitted it to Saratoga City for consideration as part of the Environmental Impact Review. This proposal provides the same number of apartments, but places them at the edge of the campus. It also includes a new, state-of-the-art skilled nursing facility. Our proposal is illustrated in the following campus map:

Residents' Alternative Proposal

The key features of our proposal are to

We retain the Fitness Center extension and new emergency access from the PRS proposal unchanged.

The advantages of our proposal over the PRS proposal include:

Our proposal, though developed by just a few residents, has rapidly received wide support from among the SRC residents. Of the 88% of the Independent Living Residents responding to a questionnaire sent from the Residents’ Council at the end of 2021, 76% oppose PRS plan and, in response to a separate question, 76 % support our proposal. See here for a full report of the questionnaire results.

Do you support the Alternate Proposal? If so, then please click or tap here to send us an email and let us know and please send your comments to the City. Thank you.


Preserve SRC Campus is an informal organization whose members are residents in the Saratoga Retirement Community

This page last updated on March 14th, 2022. Any problems with this web page? Please email the administrator.
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