See How Many Affordable Senior Units Your Site Holds
Start from a 55+ affordable rental community of four-story elevator buildings with compact one- and two-bedroom units and reduced parking, fitted to your parcel. You see the unit count before the application is due.
How Many Affordable Senior Units Will Fit My Site?
TestFit is real estate feasibility software that generates site plans on your parcel and calculates what they yield. For an affordable senior community, the answer comes down to three things that are hard to judge from a parcel map.
Reduced parking frees land
Senior affordable residents tend to own fewer cars. Reduced parking frees land for buildings, and the unit count follows.
Two elevators per building
Every building gets a two-car elevator bank so residents are not stranded when one is out of service.
Compact units keep costs down
Compact one- and two-bedroom units and 10 ft floors keep cost per unit down. The plan shows how many fit on each floor.
From Your Parcel to a Deal You Can Underwrite
Start from the affordable senior 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, 10 ft floor to floor (40 ft), compact 1 and 2 BR units, two-car elevator bank per building
- Site layout: reduced surface parking 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 made a goal to seek out more multi-family work, and TestFit has allowed us to win over developer partners while saving over $200k in labor hours. We can easily provide our clients with quick studies as they vet out sites to see if the sites are the right fit for them based on the data we can find in TestFit like cost of yield, number of units, square footage and more
55+ Affordable Senior Rental Site Planning FAQ
What is affordable senior housing?
Age-restricted rental housing for income-qualified residents 55 and older, with rents held below market. Units are usually compact one- and two-bedroom apartments.
Why does senior affordable housing need less parking?
Lower-income senior households own fewer cars on average, and many jurisdictions allow reduced parking ratios for age-restricted affordable housing. Check your local code.
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
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