LAKEVILLE — A new plan could be coming for the Lakeville Hospital property that would feature assisted living facilities or affordable or age-restricted housing, Town Administrator Ari Sky told the select board at their Aug. 21 meeting. 

These ideas, along with possible research and development facilities, were discussed at an Aug. 1 meeting with town officials and representatives of Rhino Capital, owners of the site at 43 Main St., Sky said.

No plan has been officially submitted, Sky said, but there was discussion of a “conceptual idea’’ that would include some or all of these features. A potential nature park was also mentioned for a portion of the location, Sky said.

“They’re going to want to do something with that property,’’ Sky said. Requesting a meeting with the town, as Rhino Capital did, “means they’re working on something.’’

But what that exact plan would be and when it might be presented remain unknown, Sky said. “It could be one month, it could be six months, it could be one year,’’ he said, before a plan is presented.

The potential uses, Sky said, all fall within zoning regulations for the location. 

The previous proposal for the site _ the construction of two warehouses _ was soundly defeated by Special Town Meeting voters in November. 

Opponents of the plan worried about traffic and noise stemming from the project, as well as questioning whether allowing one warehouse in town would start a wave of warehouse development.

Some residents also stated that warehouses would not fit into the town’s rural character.

One potential benefit, plan supporters said at the time, would be Rhino Capital’s commitment to cleaning the landfill on the site before moving forward with the warehouse construction.

The future of the landfill remains unclear. No warehouses have been proposed in the most recent discussion, Sky said.

One resident at the Aug. 21 meeting questioned the conditions of the site and what work has been done to maintain the structure and the area around it. 

Susan Spieler said that “more and more broken windows’’ can be observed on the building and that, despite assurances she said had been received, “they haven’t touched the lawn’’ to keep it mowed.

Lakeville Hospital has a long history in the town, where it has been located for more than 100 years. The structure opened in 1910 and closed in 1992. The buildings contain asbestos, as they were built before the United States restricted its use in 1989, which has led to still unresolved questions about clean-up.

Few details are known yet about a new hospital proposal, Sky stressed. But with the great interest in town about the fate of the site, he wanted to be “transparent,’’ he noted, and share the information as soon as possible, even in its incomplete state.