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New International Dictionary., defines "foster" as "Affording, receiving, or sharing nourishment, nurture, or sustenance,. though not related by blood or . . by ties of nature . . . or the like." Id. at 25c 295 N.W. 66. In effect, "foster care" refers to a type of substitute family a.rrcr.gement. In my view, the proposed use is a tyre of family -- net parents taking care of young children -- but the equally- familial arrangement of grown children taking care of aged parents. In Costley v. Caromin House, Inc., 313 N.W. 2d 21 (Minn. • 1981), the Court held that, "Even where local zoning ordinances have required persons to he related, in order to be a family, courts have held that a group home was a single - family dwelling. (Citations omitted.) The word 'family' is no longer limited to a traditional concept of marriage and biological ties." Id. at 25. Quoting City of White Plains v. Ferraioli, 34 N.Y. 2d 300, 313 N.E. 2d 756, 357 N.Y.S. 2d 449 1Q 4 _e r noted t "'C (__ 7 .) , the Court no�ec, that, "'So long as the group home bears the c neric character of a family unit as a relatively permanent household, and is not a framework for transients or transient living, it conforms to the purpose of the ordinance.'" 313 N.W. 2d at 25. The Little Canada Zoning Ordinance aooears to be more conducive to allowing a residential home than does the Two harbors ordinance in Costley. The Court held in Costley that six retarded adults and their houseparents comprised a family within the Two Harbors ordinance, though the ordinance required that they live as a single housekeeping unit. The Little Canada ordinance, on the other hand, does not require families to live as single housekeeping units and expressly allows for the relationship of foster care within the - 5 -'