Urgent care animal hospital proposed in Dover

DOVER — Plans are in the works to build an urgent care animal hospital just off Exit 8 from the Spaulding Turnpike.

If approved, the hospital would be built at 67 Knox Marsh Road in Dover on a parcel of land located across from Trestle Way, less than a half-mile from the highway.

Broadview Urgent Care Animal Hospital is the name of the proposed business, according to plans submitted to the city Planning Board’s Technical Review Committee. It is connected to the Broadview Animal Hospital located on Ten Rod Road in Rochester. The committee is scheduled to take up the plan submitted by the applicant DMC Real Estate Holdings LLC at its Nov. 29 meeting.

According to the submitted project narrative, the animal hospital would total 15,800 square feet built in two phases. The first phase would be a two-story building with 8,000 square feet for the animal hospital on the first floor and 3,000 square feet of office space on the second floor. A second phase would add 4,800 square feet more hospital space that would be attached to the first phase buildout. According to the plans, there is no definite timeline when the second phase would be built.

The nearly 6-acre parcel was permitted in 2011 for a 25,000-square-foot mixed-use commercial space, which never moved forward. That proposal could have included a doughnut shop with a drive-through window, a restaurant, a dry cleaner with a drive-thru window and retail and office space, according to the project narrative. The land, which is owned by Kevin and Lydia Cooper, also of Knox Marsh Road, has not yet been developed.

According to the traffic estimates provided by the applicant, the animal hospital is estimated to generate 340 trips a day, which they say is lower than the 1,731 trips estimated for the previously permitted project.

The TRC meeting is scheduled to be held at 10:30 a.m. Nov. 29 in the Dover City Hall auditorium.