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Item No: 6A <br />Meeting Date: June 18, 2008 <br />Type of Business: Discussion <br /> <br />City of Mounds View Staff Report <br /> <br />To: Mounds View Planning Commission <br />From: Heidi Heller, Planning Associate <br />Item Title/Subject: Review Preliminary Plans for a new senior housing <br />development <br /> <br /> <br />Staff has been meeting with a developer regarding a new senior housing development that <br />would be built on the northwest corner of Groveland Road and County Highway 10. The <br />developer has a purchase agreement for the properties at 2865 County Highway 10 <br />(previous trailer hitch business), and 7980 and 8020 Groveland Road. These three lots <br />create a 2.38 acre parcel. <br /> <br />The developer plans to submit their development application in early July. Staff received the <br />attached preliminary plans from the developer on Wednesday, and wanted to show them to <br />the Planning Commission for some early discussion on the project. <br /> <br />The proposal is for a three story, 97 unit building with senior independent, assisted living and <br />memory care. There would be underground and surface parking, with the main entrance and <br />parking entering from County Highway 10. An additional smaller parking lot would access <br />Groveland Road. The developer would build, own and manage the facility. <br /> <br />The assisted living and memory care piece of this project is new territory for Mounds View. <br />There are currently three other senior housing developments here, but all of them are only <br />“independent living” and do not provide the food service or nursing assistance that would be <br />available at this new facility. Assisted living and memory care units are much smaller (400- <br />600 square feet) than independent units (700-1100+ square feet), which is why the building <br />has 97 units in it. If this were entirely an independent living or regular apartment building, <br />there would only be about 45 -50 units in the same building size. Having said that, the city <br />code requires a certain amount of land square footage per unit, and doesn’t distinguish <br />between different types of high density housing, so the per-unit density of this project is much <br />higher than the code allows. <br /> <br />Staff is going to talk to other cities that have similar senior housing facilities to see how they <br />deal with these buildings. <br /> <br /> <br />Sincerely, <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />