SEQUIM — Tom Curry faced a tough room Friday night. Curry is the local representative of Avamere Health Services, the company planning to build the 180-unit Olympic Meadows, a senior care facility, along the northwest corner of Dominion Terrace at Fifth Avenue and McCurdy Road.
Some 50 Terrace residents filled their community room Friday, concerned that Olympic Meadows would significantly change their outlook.
Olympic Meadows would include an Alzheimer’s care center plus 46 assisted-living apartments, 95 independent living apartments and 24 cottages; part of the structure would be 35 feet high.
Another portion would be four stories and 50 feet high — something seldom seen in Sequim.
Earlier this month, Dominion Terrace general manager Joe Shearer said that Olympic Meadows would affect the Strait of Juan de Fuca view from 70 of the Terrace’s 97 units.
At the meeting, Curry seemed aghast at that assertion.
“Where does that come from?” he asked.
Several Dominion Terrace residents told Curry that after they had examined Avamere’s computer renderings of Olympic Meadows, they believed the complex would block parts of their water, mountain and city views.
Shearer also stood by his statement, though he said the computer renderings weren’t a substitute for reality.
“I still believe 70 units will have part of their view changed,” he said.
“But I won’t know for sure until (Olympic Meadows) is built.”