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• • CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION November 5, 2007 APPROVED 1 CITY OF LINO LAKES 2 MINUTES 3 4 DATE : November 5, 2007 5 TIME STARTED : 5:35 P.M. 6 TIME ENDED : 9:35 P.M. 7 MEMBERS PRESENT : Council member Carlson, Reinert, O'Donnell, 8 Stoltz, and Mayor Bergeson 9 MEMBERS ABSENT : None 10 11 12 Staff Members Present: City Administrator, Gordon Heitke; Finance Director, Al Rolek; 13 City Engineer, Jim Studenski; Community Development Director, Michael Grochala; 14 Director of Administration, Dan Tesch; Economic Development Coordinator, Mary Alice 15 Divine; Public Service Director, Rick DeGardner; City Clerk, Julie Bartell 16 17 Hartford Group — Economic Development Coordinator Divine introduced Frank Janes 18 and Patrick Sarver of the Hartford Group. They will discuss a proposal for a senior 19 housing project for the Legacy at Woods Edge Project. Their proposal would require 20 some adjustments to the original master plan and they want to discuss them with the 21 council. An amendment to that land use plan would be required. Graphics were 22 distributed. 23 24 Mr. Janes noted that they have been working with staff on elements of the Legacy at 25 Woods Edge project that they believe could move forward. He remarked that the current 26 housing market makes this a challenging time. They are proposing a couple of projects 27 they think can move forward — a senior project and a multifamily project. He noted that 28 he would review the overall project to bring the council up to date. The graphics 29 reviewed were master plan site layout, southwest development conceptual layout and 30 conceptual layout site plan. 31 32 Mr, Janes noted that original plans had the senior site in a certain area and they are 33 proposing to move it adjacent to the park. They are trying to get a viable senior project 34 and the original location would be problematic with its commercial element in today's 35 market. Closer to the park would be preferable. They propose a building with a north 36 side portion with four stories, a middle portion with a two story center concept and then a 37 south portion tapering down to three stories, similar to a project in Maplewood. They are 38 looking at 140-160 units comprised of independent senior housing units (age restricted 39 senior apartment with no services — 40 units) along with the addition of independent 40 senior units with some limited services. Another component would be assisted living and 41 some "care suites". This would provide a continuum of care similar to other projects they 42 have done. There would be a combination of 1-2 bedroom units in the independent, and 43 the independent and assisted with services would be mostly 1 bedroom. Care suites 44 would be more segregated to provide for more care. Community space is included — card 45 rooms, salon, movie room, often a chapel, etc. Underground parking is included for