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-4 - You're all somewhat familiar with the plans we've already submitted for this project. What we've done is put them in a presentation for- mat. What I will do now is explain some of this to you. I hope that everybody, Board members and audience alike, will get a good idea of what we've done here. Maybe if some of you would like to move around. I think the thing that impresses us most about the project is that number 1, it's in St. Anthony. St. Anthony's a very nice community. What we wanted to do with the site was respond to some of the neat characteristics that St. Anthony has, which is a park type of atmosphere. We wanted to incorporate that into the site plan and in the overall site plan, I think you can see how we've incorporated a park -like type of atmosphere, trees, boulevards coming in with the ponds as part of the second phase, buffering the first phase building from the trailor court, trying to provide sense of entry into both phases of the project. We're talking about general terms about the whole site plan, and then I want to be specific about phase 1, phase 2 and phase 3. We do consider it all as one project plan. Some of the site amenities that we've incorporated into the second phase will not only be used by the second phase, but also the people moving into the first phase will also have use of those recreational facilities, which we think is a real unique charcteristic particularly of this plan. one of those recreational facilities is a pool room that has an indoor pool, sauna, weight room and that type of facility. We also have the pond with a waterfall which we anticipate we've got a sidewalk system going around it which we anticipate will be a casual walk around the pond type of thing at night. We've also got an extensive sidewalk system that incorporates both projects and are hoping that the City will have a sidewalk system that goes particularly for this phase to St. Charles Church and then back again, you know, that type of system. So we're encouraging everybody to use the entire complex which is one reason why we've got a new stop light, 3 way stop, which is part of the project as well so that to and from both sides can actually work. We've also got tennis courts as part of the second phase, we've got some rooftop gardens which more specifically can be used by the residents of those particular buildings. In the first phase, the north side of the project, we've got shuffle board courts, horseshoe pits and those types of things. We are also hoping we can incorporate some sort of garden plots as part of that first phase so residents can grow their own vegies. Now I'm going to talk about the first phase which is the 134 unit elderly building which is this building here. We've provided a total of 103 parking spaces, which is a little bit over the average for this type of facility, but we felt that it is important to incorporate those amount of parking spaces into the project. This is the overall floor plan. It's a four story building and basically the floor plan is the same for all four floors except that there's a central court area on the first floor. We've got some things that aren't included on the top floors, like a security room, which will have a full time security guard. We've also got the party room is and lounge which is part of the first floor, the lobby and card room. We've also got a T.V. lounge and we anticipate that being an area out- side of the unit where residents can go and socialize with others