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• CITY OF ST. ANTHONY PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES November 20, 1984 1 The meeting was called to order by Chair Zawislak at 7:36 P.M. 2 3 Present for roll call : Zawislak, Franzese, Bjorklund, and Hansen. 4 5 Absent: Jones, Wagner, and Bowerman. 6 7 Also present: David Childs, City Manager. 8 9 Motion by Commissioner Hansen and seconded by Commissioner Franzese to approve as 10 submitted the minutes of the Planning .Commission meeting held October 16, 1984. 11 12 Motion carried unanimously. 13 14 Chair Zawislak indicated he would report the Commission meeting at the next Council 15 meeting which had been rescheduled to be held December 4th. 16 17 - At 7:37 P.M. , the Chair read the notice of the hearing to consider a request from 18 St. Anthony Health Center, 3700 Foss Road N.E. , for a density variance which would 19 allow construction of an additional 32 units to the 84 which were approved July 24, 20 1984 for the proposed senior rental housing structure to be constructed on the 21 existin.g vacant parcel directly west of and .in conjunction with the 65 unit 22 St. Anthony Health Center nursing home. The notice had been published in the 23 Bulletin November 6th, and mailed to all property owners of record within 350 feet 24 Of-�ie subject property. No one present reported failure to receive the notice 25 or objected to its content and the Manager reported receiving no calls related 26 to the proposed addition. 27 28 Michael Miller, Assistant Administrator of the Health Center and Craig Hinrichs 29 of Smiley,. Glotter Associates, 1021 LaSalle Avenue South, Minneapolis, architect 30 for the project, were present to answer questions related to the requested increase 31 to 116 units and the revised site and floor plans for the Chandler residence, 32 which would provide the same type of supervised living for elderly residents as 33 had been approved by the City for the original 84 units. Mr. Miller indicated the 34decision to increase the number of units in the project had been made after a 35 meeting of the Health Center managing partners with Kraus-Anderson of St. Paul , the --- ---36—contractors-who-wou-1-d-be-he--1 pi-ng-design the-bui 1-ding;the-fi-nance-peopl-e;—and- - - 3 7 the new architects who had been selected because of their expertise in building 38 senior housing, where a revised design -for the interior of the building was 39 developed which would utilize every bit of revenue producing space possible and 40 thus result in a project which would be more cost effective than the 84 unit project. 41 42 The new design would provide a total of 181 housing units on the parcel between 43 Foss and Chandler Roads, of which half had already been taken up for the existing 4 4 nursing home. $0 -one narking spaces, _ including 39 underground for .reside-nts • 45 of the new building, would be- added to the 68 stalls next to the nursing facilities, 46 the Assistant Administrator indicated, and he said an improved traffic flow pattern 47 would be developed between the. two buildings to avoid the use of 37th Avenue to get 48 from one building or unit to the next. The Manager observed that, even with the 49 addition of 32 units in the new structure, the' parking for the whole project would