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MEMORANDUM COMM. NO.: 613101211 CLIENT: Boston Scientific PROJECT: Day Care Relocation SUBJECT: Land Use Application Narrative MEMO BY: Judd Brasch, RSP Architects DATE: July 6, 2015 (Revised July 27, 2015) ATTENTION: Ryan Streff, City Planner, City of Arden Hills COPY: Emily Colletti, Boston Scientific Boston Scientific is planning to relocate its existing New Horizon managed Day Care Facility from Building 9, at the north edge of the campus ,to Building 10, in the center of the Arden Hills Campus. The relocation will help facilitate the planned interior reconfiguration of existing distribution and manufacturing space and allow the expansion of the day care to comply with current state day care guidelines. The existing day care is approximately 7,300 SF of interior space located at the north east corner of the ground floor of Building 9, with a fenced exterior play area to the north. The relocated facility will be approximately 8,500 SF and contain the same child care program of three infant rooms, two toddler rooms, and three pre-school rooms with the addition of a new indoor play area now required for large muscle development. The new facility will be located in the central area of the east side of the ground floor of Building 10. A new fenced exterior play area will also be built along the east side of the day care. A new building entrance directly into the day care will require a new concrete stoop with a ramped concrete side walk for accessibility. Approximately 5,550 SF of bituminous and sidewalk will be removed to allow for the installation of 3,125 SF of resilient exterior play surface and 1,880 SF of concrete side walk for a net decrease of 550 SF of impervious surface. The existing fence and play equipment will be removed from the current exterior play area (approximately 3,000 SF). Three new 3” boulevard trees matching the existing species will be planted along Innovation Way. Five new shrubs will be planted to screen the existing electrical transformer. The day care relocation and bituminous removal will eliminate 11 existing parking stalls adjacent to the east side of the building. The north curb cut in the existing dive through configuration will be eliminated. The eleven eliminated stalls will be added to the 125 stalls currently stripped along innovation way making the total 136 spaces. We are proposing to leave the 50 stalls as striped both sides of the road, south of Boston Scientific Drive; leaving as striped the 55 stalls along the east side of the road north of the enclosed walkway crossing. In the area north of Boston Scientific Drive and south side of the enclosed