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:c. MINUTES OF THE ORONO CITY COUNCIL MEETING Monday, August 9, 2010 • 7.00 o'clock p.m: (5. #10 -3471 TERRYSCHNEIDER ONBEHALF OF WOODHILL SENIOR COTTAGES OF NAVARRE, 2525 & 2545 SHADYWOOD ROAD, Continued) I Prairie City Cottages will manage the facility. Schneider indicated they are only asking for approval of the front building at the present time but that they have designed the plat to accommodate two buildings. Schneider stated with the previous application for an office building, the City Council was inclined to rezone the land from the B -4 District to an RPUD, which will eventually need to be done in this case if a second building is constructed. The first building is basically a large duplex and will house a maximum of 12 residents on each side. Each unit will have its own bedroom, with two units having two bedrooms, and their own restroom. There will be a common laundry, dining and kitchen area as well as a caretaker's area. There will also be a common secure back yard area. Both sides will share an LPN and an RN. Caregivers will be designated for each side. Under the original proposal for the office center, the B -4 zone required a 15 -foot setback. A one -story memory care facility requires a 25 -foot setback. Under the current proposal, the front building has been relocated 10 feet to the south and the layout of the building has been changed slightly. Each room was reduced by six inches and the dining area was reduced by three feet on each side. The bedrooms were reconfigured slightly. The width of the building was reduced by six feet and the depth of the building was • reduced by four feet. The south edge of the garage was relocated four feet closer to the property line than what was originally proposed, which will help preserve some of the landscaping area. City Staff has been provided a considerable amount of information on the parking requirements for this type of facility. Memory care facilities are different from an assisted living facility in that memory care residents tend to be less active and traffic generally is less than an assisted living facility. A survey of a number of communities has been submitted to Staff which shows that the proposed parking for this facility exceeds similar facilities in other communities. The parking that is depicted is for both buildings. An elaborate series of ponding, rain gardens, and bio- filtration swales have been incorporated into the plan to ensure that the drainage will satisfy the requirements of the City Engineer. The current design has also reduced the hard surface by approximately 3,000 square feet from what was originally proposed. Final calculations will need to be done once the other civil engineering plans are completed. Schneider illustrated on the overhead the layout of the site depicting the two buildings and the garage, which will house the trash and recycling containers. The facility is basically a one -story residential appearing building. Schneider noted one of the issues raised at the Planning Commission was traffic on Shadywood Road, but this type of facility has the lowest type of traffic generation of any type of use for the B-4 district. White opened the public hearing at 7:29 p.m. Bill Stoddard, 2605 Kelly Avenue, indicated he lives directly across the street from this site and has developed senior living facilities in Florida. Stoddard indicated he is against this project due to the . • location and type of business it is. The main reason for his opposition to this project is this appears to be Page 3 of 17