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CHAPTER 5 HOUSING 112 and St. Paul proper. To disperse these Group Homes more evenly throughout the Metropolitan area, new legislation has been introduced which would establish minimum distance requirements between Group Homes. Currently, one Group Home is located in New Brighton. Said Group Home has been in existence since 1975. This relative absence of Group Homes is not due to local zoning restrictions, but to a lack of requests for Group Home licenses from New Brighton residents. If a Group Home license were requested, current legislation would allow for up to six persons in a child Group Home and up to four persons in an adult Group Home without a special use permit. The number of persons allowed without a special use permit would be increased under the new legislation being considered. OBJECTIVE: ASSORTMENT' OF HOUSING TYPES 1. Encourage developments providing a variety of housing types and cost ranges under the PRD procedure. Discourage the concentration of any one type of structure in any one area. 2. Recognition of the need for Group Homes for foster care and developmentally disabled persons. POLICY: ASSORTMENT OF HOUSING TYPES 1. When reviewing proposed planned residential developments, consider the impact of the development on the goal of providing a variety of housing unit types. 2. The City amend its Zoning Ordinance to acknowledge Group Homes as a permitted use and special use per State legislation. YEAR 2000 PROJECTIONS The trend for population, employment, and housing in New Brighton through the year 2000 is projected in Figure 6. The forecasts for the years 1990 and 2000 were prepared by the Metropolitan Council in 1985. The Metropolitan Council's forecast for the year 2000 is considered reasonably accurate for the region as a whole, but at the individual community level, it is not possible to incorporate into the forecasts the unique events which can change past trends significantly. For example, the aggressive marketing of the Highway 8 Corridor redevelopment districts could attract new businesses and jobs resulting in a higher employ- ment figure than projected for the end of the century. Likewise, the construction of additional high density elderly and conventional housing units could result in a higher housing unit figure and population figure in the year 2000 than projected.