Altered villas okayed

Decatur Daily Democrat:

A proposal to make four single villas into two larger villas at the Woodcrest Retirement Center was approved Wednesday night at the monthly board of trustees meeting of the Adams Health Network (AHN).
AHN Executive Director Marvin L. Baird said the changes will convert four villas that are currently one-bedroom, one-bathroom, one-car garage units into a pair of two-bedroom, two-bathroom, two-car garage villas. He said the villas to be affected by the change — units 1 and 2 and 37 and 38 — are currently empty and that Woodcrest already has one interested tenant when the conversion is done.
Baird said there are currently 42 villas at Woodcrest and 10 are empty. The great majority of those villas are of the one-bedroom, one-bathroom variety, and as evidenced by the long-standing vacancy of some villas at Woodcrest, there is not a great demand for those accommodations....