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C. Independent.Providers : Some AL facilities use their own internal staff to provide routine services, and external sources to provide more specialized on-site assistance such as medical care or physical therapy. If the Mounds View facility intends to use such independent providers, the amount of parking that they require should be determined. For example, the two Rosewood Estates facilities in Roseville and Maplewood (105 and 100 units, respectively) have 4-10 independent care providers present at any given time. D. Visitors: This is the variable that is the hardest to predict. Some AL residents have many regular visitors, and some never have any. However, most AL facilities seem to have 2-5 larger events per year(summer picnics, Christmas parties, etc.) to which the families and friends of the residents are invited. It does not seem reasonable to require a facility to provide sufficient parking to accommodate all of the guests at such events, because for the remainder of the year those spaces would be unnecessary. Still, "overflow" parking, even though rare, has to go somewhere. The facilities that deal with it the most effectively are those that have either a shared parking arrangement with a nearby school or business or an agreement with the local municipality that upon reasonable advance notice, short-term parking will be allowed on nearby residential streets on a handful of occasions during the year. Based upon the preceding conclusions, the most critical questions would seem to include the following: • What level of assisted living will be provided by the proposed Mounds View facility? That is, will the objective be to attract active, independent seniors who need relatively few services (and who might therefore be more likely to drive and own cars), or dependent/disabled seniors who need a high level of assistance (and who might therefore be less likely to have or need their own transportation)? • What is the maximum number of"internal"staff members that the proposed Mounds View facility would expect to have on-site at any given time? • Will the proposed Mounds View use any "external,"on-site, independent service providers--and if so, what is the maximum number of such individuals who would be present at any given time? • Will periodic "overflow"parking be allowed on nearby residential streets, and/or is there a nearby property owner or business that would occasionally allow its parking spaces to be used in such situations? My personal assessment is that the 22 spaces provided on MSP's site plan may be sufficient if less than 10% of the residents owned a car, and if the facility anticipated a"typical" internal staffing level(no more than 5 employees per shift), and if few (no more than 3-4 per shift) independent providers were utilized, and if acceptable arrangements could be made for occasional off-site parking.