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4 Medical facilities means establishments engaged in providing diagnostic services, extensive medical treatment (including surgical services), and other hospital services, as well as continuous nursing service, including general medical and surgical hospitals, specialty hospitals, medical laboratories, bio-medical research and development, outpatient care facilities, medical schools and associated dormitories, medical appliance sales, and similar uses, but not including animal hospitals. Staff are unaware of any land use controls specific to the proposed use of postpartum care center. It is more likely that use would be treated as a type of short term accommodation which is defined as transient lodging in Lake Elmo’s City Code (LEC 105.12.110). Transient accommodations, lodging, means establishments in which lodging is provided and offered to the public for compensation, and which is open primarily to transient guests, as distinguished from semi-transient boarding or rooming facilities. Typical uses include hotels, motels, and inns. Meeting and restaurant facilities may be included accessory to this use type. Condominium-hotels shall be considered as a type of transient accommodation. Another use that could be considered similar but not entirely applicable is nursing and personal care which is defined as follows in Lake Elmo’s City Code (LEC 105.12.110): Nursing and personal care means establishments primarily engaged in providing intermediate or long-term nursing and health related care to individuals, typically classified as nursing homes. Minnesota Women’s Care advertises locations in several metro area communities; however, those locations are clinical in nature and located in highway commercial areas of Maplewood, Woodbury, and Apple Valley. PROPOSED TEXT AMENDMENT LANGUAGE: The City must determine whether the proposed land uses are acceptable in the zoning district where they are proposed. Staff are suggesting consideration of the proposed uses in the Agricultural district and a birth center in districts where medical facilities are currently a permitted or conditional use. The Applicant’s requests are found in the attachments to this report; however, staff are proposing to modify those requests to better fit with the form of the City’s ordinance. Proposed amendments are shown in the ordinance language appended to this report. Text with red strikethrough text is to be deleted, text with blue underlined text is to be added. A summary of the changes to Lake Elmo City Code Sections is below: • 105.12.110 – Zoning Use Types And Classifications: o Definition of medical facility modified, and transitional care facility added. • 105.12.410 – Off Street Parking: o Parking requirement for transitional care facility added: “2 spaces per suite, plus one space per employee on the largest work shift.” • 105.12.510 – Standards For Services: o Birth Centers added under medical facilities (c) with the following requirements: