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MINUTES OF THE ORONO PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING HELD ON MARCH 7, 1995 PUBLIC INTORNLATION MEETING - FOURTH WORKSHOP PROPOSED amendment OF ZONING CODE TO ALLOW DOMESTIC ABUSE SffiLTCR located at 2380 SRAD^AVOOD RO.AD (irS • Public Comments and Questions - Continued) Gre- Sichender a Westonka Intervention board member, reported that adolescent boys are not .tllovved or a limited number are allowed at the NUnnetonka shelter to eliminate potential behav oriai problems Schroeder asked Hessburg if adolescCTt boys would be Lted but Hessburu did not know. Peterson said there was the need tor safety but people should realize that not ail of the victims even have children. Hessburg said that there has never been anv v lolence in regard to a police caU to a shelter in Minnesota, bojoumer had one call reuardina a batterer possibly coming to the shelter but this never matenalized. Banerers rLn the'whole aamut of social-economic class and are people you see every day. The victim vvoui: he und'er court protectioa and the last place the batterer would want to be would be at the shelter to cause himself more problems V'al Hessburg reporte researchina police depanment calls. Home Free Shel'er in Plymouth had 2 calls in 199.. I call in 1993, and no calls from January through May ot 1994. Richard Mevers was concerned with calls to other parts of the communin ’ related to the shelter Mevers was not womed about in-facility but outside-facihty probleim saying statistics show that problems don ’t come as a result of the shelter itself. Hessburg reponed that when a victim is unable to be in a shelter, the violence will be seen out on the road at the store, etc. If the victim is in the shelter, the violence vviU not be there. Peterson said that a banerer knows where friends and famUy are located to hnd the victim but if at the shelter, they won ’t go there. Ray Pasch of 3300 Navarre Lane, was concerned when the victims are out in the neighborhood going to the bus, the store, etc. Children are restricted to the site but what about the victim. He wondered if the batterer would be watching and wamng for the victim and incidents would then occur. Hessburg said by that time, the viaim is under coun protection, and anv occurrence of violence would result in actual jail time, which is a deterrent to anything happemng. Schroeder said the concern was if the shelter would attract an undesirable concentration of people. Pasch also asked about the location and drawing additional traffic through the area and not through the residential streets but by Co Rds 15 and 19 only. He asked if the access to the facHity would be from the county roads only and what about the side vacated road. Hessburg -lU the victim would be brought to the shelter by an advocate and stay about 17-19 da. The traffic would be greater from the staff personnel. If a viaim is working, they would use the parking lot. The lower level area would also create traffic with service trucks Mevers asked if the access road would be deadended so the road would not go through the neighborhood. The Planning Commissioners thought that all access would be from the county road but will look at this issue.