See How Many Active Adult Units Your Site Holds
Start from a 55+ active adult rental community of four-story elevator buildings with one- and two-bedroom units, fitted to your parcel. You see unit count and parking before you commit.
Will an Active Adult 55+ Community Fit My Site?
TestFit is real estate feasibility software that generates site plans on your parcel and calculates what they yield. For an active adult community, the answer comes down to three things that are hard to judge from a parcel map.
Two elevators per building
Residents cannot be stranded when an elevator is out of service, so every building gets a two-car bank.
A one- and two-bedroom mix
One- and two-bedroom units for empty nesters fit more units per floor than a family mix, and change how many stalls the site needs.
Four stories at 46 ft
11.5 ft floors over four stories put the roofline at 46 ft. Check it against the height limit before you count on the fourth floor.
From Your Parcel to a Deal You Can Underwrite
Start from the active adult community your team would build, tune it to your standards, and finish with one model for the site, plan, tabulation and pro forma.
Your parcel and its constraints
- Site boundary: pick the parcel from built-in parcel data with current owner info, draw it, enter metes and bounds, or import a KML/KMZ file
- Setbacks and frontage: front, side and rear setbacks set to the parcel edges
- Zoning: FAR, building and impervious coverage, height limits and parking ratios, pulled in for your parcel so you don't have to dig through the zoning code
- Easements: areas the layout keeps buildings out of
- Site conditions: flood zones, wetlands and topography from Site Intelligence
Every layout starts inside your site's real constraints.
Your product, fine-tuned on the site
- Product: 4-story age-restricted elevator buildings, 11.5 ft floor to floor (46 ft), 1 and 2 BR units, two-car elevator bank per building
- Site layout: surface parking courts on fire-access drive aisles
- Your edits: unit mix, unit sizes, buildings, parking and drives
You see the building your team would propose, on your parcel.
A source of truth for the deal
- Site plan geometry: buildings, courts, parking and drives drawn to the parcel
- Tabulation for this product: building sf, dock doors, trailer and car stalls against what's required, site coverage and FAR
- Earthwork: cut and fill for the layout
- Financials: the geometry turned into development costs, revenue and returns
- Shareable results: a link or PDF report for your team, partners and other stakeholders
You know whether the deal works, with numbers to back it.
We do initial pro formas and tell clients, ‘Hey, this doesn’t make sense.’ We’ve shown them 10 different schemes in TestFit… and nothing pencils out. Sometimes more is not better… You end up spending more money and getting less return. TestFit helps us and our clients make decisions.
55+ Active Adult Rental Site Planning FAQ
What is an active adult community?
Age-restricted rental housing for residents 55 and older who live independently, with no care services.
How is active adult different from senior living?
Active adult is independent, age-restricted rental housing. Senior living adds services such as meals, care or assistance with daily living.
Why does every building have two elevators?
So residents who cannot use stairs are not stranded when one elevator is out of service.
How many units fit on my site?
It depends on parcel shape, parking and unit mix. Load your parcel in TestFit with this layout to see the unit count and density.
Can I change the layout after it generates?
Yes. Start from this layout, then edit the unit mix, buildings, parking and drives in TestFit. The site plan and yield recalculate as you go.
Find it in TestFit
Test This Layout on Your Next Garden Site
Load your parcel and get the site plan, yield, and costs in one place.