An Idaho-based developer of low-income apartments is a step closer to fulfilling an economic need identified in the Douglas County Master Plan Update of 2011: affordable senior housing.On Wednesday, planning commissioners voted 4-1, with commissioners Kevin Servatius and Don Miner absent and Jim Madsen voting nay, to approve a 2-story planned development on about 8 acres of vacant land along Stodick Parkway in south Gardnerville. Spearheaded by New Beginnings Housing, LLC, the Parkway Vista Apartments will include 30 rental units with associated amenities and parking on 2 acres of multifamily property, a detention pond on 1.2 acres, and future phasing …