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of Mounds View Staff R Item No: 07A Meeting Date: June 24, 2019 Type of Business: Special Order of Business City Administrator Review: To: Honorable Mayor and City Council From: Jon Sevald, Community Development Director Item Title/Subject: Discussion — Assisted Living concept (Dan Carlson) Introduction: Dan Carlson is a residential builder who has had discussions with Tom and Lisa Fields, about redeveloping their property on Lambert Avenue into four lots. Each lot would have an Assisted Living facility for 7-9 persons, and be designed to resemble a single-family home. This discussion would be appropriate for a Council Work Session, but due to the unavailability of Mr. Carlson and Staff on July 1St, Staff bumped this up to the June 24th Regular Meeting. Staff's intent is for this to be a short discussion (5-10 minutes), and for the Council to provide a consensus if this project may be appropriate (soft maybe), or is definitely not appropriate (hard No). The Council's consensus is non-binding. Discussion: The Fields' property at 2255 Lambert Avenue consists of one 2.16 acre lot, with a single-family home. The Developer would remove the home, and subdivide the property into four lots, meeting the minimum lot size requirements for single-family. The proposed Assisted Living facilities would include a first floor and lower level with an elevator, and seven bedrooms per home, intending to house 7-9 residents. If the assisted living market were to change, reducing the demand, the intent is that each home could be converted into a single-family residence. There are a number of group homes within Mounds View, the most similar of which would be the Phoenix Residence, on County Road I & Long Lake Road. Minnesota Statute' allows licensed Group Homes housing up to six non -related residents within any residential district. The Phoenix Residence resembles a single-family home, and is adjacent to twin homes and single-family. The proposed seven -unit facility (X4) exceeds this amount, thus, is interpreted by the Zoning Code as a Nursing Home or Senior Congregate Housing, which is a Conditional Use in the R-4 High Density Residential distriCt. 2 An alternative to rezoning the property from R-1 to R-4, is to rezone it to PUD, and obtain a CUP for a Residential PUD for Senior Housing.3 The minimum project size is two acres (existing property is 2.16 acres). In either case, an Amendment to the Comprehensive Plan may be necessary to change the planned land use from Single -Family Detached, to Multiple Family (Up to 17.4 units per acre. Proposed: 12.96 units per acre), or to Institutional (e.g. social or healthcare facilities). Because the City is in the process of updating its Compressive Plan, the Metropolitan Council will not accept amendments of the old plan, until the new plan is adopted, sometime in early 2020. Staff will research further if this (PUD) can be done without an amendment. ' MN Statute 462.357, Subd 7 2 City Code, Section 1109.04, Subd 2 1 City Code, Section 1120.03, Subd 1(g) (Senior Housing)