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<br /> <br />Item No: 6A <br />Meeting Date: August 6, 2008 <br />Type of Business: Action <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 Amendments to Zoning Code Relating to PUD <br />and Senior Housing <br /> <br /> <br />Introduction: <br /> <br />At the July 9, 2008 Planning Commission meeting, staff discussed with the Commission a <br />proposal to make amendments to the zoning code about senior housing. The City Council <br />also agreed with staff’s recommendation to make changes to the code for senior housing. <br /> <br />Discussion: <br /> <br />Based on the Planning Commission’s direction at the July 23, 2008 meeting, Staff has made <br />a few more changes to the new section for senior housing which amends the Zoning Code to <br />add a section addressing senior housing developments. <br /> <br />g. Senior Housing: <br /> <br />(1) The building must have at least 60 percent of its units designated for <br />assisted living or memory or Alzheimer’s care for the city to consider the project or <br />building as a planned unit development. <br /> <br />(2) The tract of land for which a planned unit development, senior housing <br />project is proposed and permit requested shall contain not less than two (2) acres of <br />land. <br /> <br />(3) The senior housing building shall not have more than three (3) stories above <br />grade. <br /> <br />(4) The front, side and rear yard restrictions at the periphery of the planned unit <br />development site, at a minimum, shall be: <br /> <br />(a) Front = 30 feet <br /> (b) Side = 20 feet <br />(c) Rear = 30 feet, or 50 feet if abutting residential <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />