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Narrative from applicant SELECT SENIOR LIVING 7/18/2008 Mounds View, Minnesota Select Senior Living in Mounds View is a three story 96 unit senior living campus with independent living units, assisted living units, and memory care units. The residents will be senior citizens age 55 years and older with an average age of 82 years old whom will enjoy scheduled daily activities, and scheduled bus service to local shopping, attractions, and activities. The building consists of 32 independent living units, 19 memory care units, 45 assisted living units, a parking garage located beneath the building, two elevators, central trash chute, and many amenities. Visible from Highway 10, the building’s inviting grand entrance porch and circle drive drop-off are designed to draw residents and guests into the building with its’ comfortable apartments and many amenities. The porch’s brilliant colonnade is flanked by two curving architectural forms that welcome the residences and guests entrance into the grand two story lobby. The building’s architecture with its hipped roofs, and exterior finish materials, such as brick veneer, lap siding, trim, dramatic overhangs, balconies, and bay windows sharpens the building’s residential flare in respect to the surrounding neighborhood and community. The 2.38 acre site offers two parking areas, large green areas with new landscaping and many existing mature trees, and paved walking trails. There are a total of 85 parking spaces provided, which consists of 38 open spaces on the surface and 47 spaces in the heated garage. In an effort to preserve as many of the mature trees as possible, an underground storage/treatment facility for rate and volume control of storm water is proposed. The underground system will allow more of the existing mature trees to be saved which would otherwise need to be removed to accommodate required areas for ponding. The soils on the site are classified as well draining silty sands, which have good infiltration rates and the ability for the designed system to exceed the standards of the watershed. The additional cost of the underground system is offset by the preservation of the mature tress, which in turn requires less to be spent on new landscaping. The shared amenities are located in the central core area, which is located in the middle of the building between the independent living units and the memory care/assisted living units. On the main floor, residents and guests are greeted by a luxurious two-story lobby, a stone fireplace, a grand stair case, an intimate café, and sitting areas with the comfortable cozy atmosphere of a living room. The mail room, management office, nurses’ office, and public restrooms are centrally located off of the lobby as are the central dining room and kitchen. Other shared amenities include an activity room with a small kitchen area and a public restroom, a media center, the activity director’s office, overnight guest rooms, and a craft room on the second floor; and a sports pub on the third floor. In addition to the heated parking, the parking level features a fitness center, an employee break room, and support spaces for the building. The two wings offer different levels of care for the residents. The 19 memory care apartments are located on the secured main floor of the north wing, and have their own private living/dining area and kitchenette as well as a private bathing room, a community laundry and a private fenced yard. There are 13 studio and 6 one bedroom apartments within the secure memory care portion of the