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g. Narrative Attachment to Zoning Text Amendment Application these reasons, the popularity of birth centers has increased precipitously in the last decade, and we anticipate demand for the proposed new facility to be high from the moment it becomes an available option for local expectant parents to consider. The facility standards developed by the CABC and AABC refiect the intent for birth centers to offer a residential-type environment by cleaving closely to the most common type of freestanding birth center structure, which is a single-family home that has been converted for the purpose. Required features include gathering spaces where relatives of birthing patients can relax, kitchens for the preparation of snacks and meals, space for laboring patients to walk around, and sufficient private rooms and bathrooms to serve the number of patients that the birth center proposes to accommodate. We think that the property at 5193 Keats Ave would be an ideal setting for a birth center due to its proximity to arterial roadways that allow easy access for laboring patients or for emergency personnel to access the property, combined with a serene lakefront environment and quiet rural atmosphere that would promote the relaxation and healing of the people who are fortunate enough to bring their children into the world in this beautiful setting. The Owner proposes to renovate the existing home on the property (3 bedrooms, 2053 flnished square feet) into a birth center able to accommodate up to three (3) birthing patients at one time. In the proposed language of the text amendment, we also propose inclusion of a limitation of birth center capacity to a maximum of four (4) rooms to ensure that any future birth center considered under this provision would be a similarly scaled structure to match the residential nature, massing and parking demands of the use and district. In addition to the birth center, we propose the addition of a postpartum recovery care center on the same site. In the proposed use of the property at 5193 Keats, this would operate in conjunction with the birth center to offer new parents a place to recuperate and rest following delivery. Currently, regulations for birth centers require patients to check out within 6 hours of delivery, to go home with their new infant. However, many new parents would beneflt from having an option for a place to go and acclimate to parenthood in a supportive environment where they would still have access to care professionals including midwives, lactation consultants, and people equipped to look after the baby while parents catch up on needed rest. To accommodate the postpartum care center, we propose replacement of the existing agricultural accessory structures on site with a new building that can be designed to suit the newly proposed use. To minimize disturbance to the site, we would locate and size the new building and its needed circulation/parking areas to flt within existing built areas. A building meeting every need of the program would be able to designed to meet every provision of the Accessory structures regulations outlined in LEC 105.12.660, however we also request that the allowable area for such a use be increased from the values given in Table 9-3 when a postpartum care center is provided as a complement to a birth center primary use on the same site, to allow the Owner to assist more new families than could be accommodated otherwise. The length of stays would vary from a couple of days for uncomplicated situations, up to several weeks for cases of postpartum depression or similarly serious conditions. However, in recognition of the characteristics of the Agricultural District standards, in the proposed language of the text amendment we do propose a limitation on