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September 9 1 1977 City Cbuncil Tie Owasso School As you all ]snow, Arthur schustet who runs the F.a eridge Health care Center at 272 7 North Vict=ia was the successful bidder for the pur- chase of the old Ike Owasso school from the Ebseville school We understand that Mr. Schuster was the only bidder for the site, did in fact pay a substantial price very sat .s factory- to the school board* Nip., Schuster has addressed a 1. ttex to the Mayor and - Co ncil requestihg certain limited use of the school facility until such tirm as he is in a positicn to .tear down the building utilize the site fors t puxposes. Mr. muster, - as many of you know, has - run a highly success and Very- attractive nuns- ng h e on the Victoria street site (across. - the school. facility) Staff members, incl,uding the Fine Marshal,, have indicated to us that Mr., Schuster has been at all times very cooperative and diligent in faithfully. maintaining ' and operating his nut-sing ha�e facility, He has, in fact,, a metropolitan wide reputation as one of the better nun facilities in the area -. The p , as you know, is zone. 1-1 which is the. � t zoning category, of course, for schools and churches in our country. Mr, Schuster proposes to repair the building and clean up- the during the interim period before .Pernorient use is proposed for the property, He indicated that his ultimate- idea for the use of the lard is for a unique foin of housing for the elderly where a person or couple would have a separate unit which would be purchased with a sale pack arrang rent si .lar to a condominum. The plans for this purpose are net specific. at this titre, we believe this kind of approach could he highly successful and an appropriate use for the land In - j union with his health care -meter across ictoria Avenue. now of these facts, W. Schuster had requested a teqmrary t to use the existing facility for storage of items fran the lakeridge Health Care Center and to use the east side of the second flock for a smarm l design studio where three 'persons would he working. These are design people U.o work on interior design for nursing honnes around the country. Mr. Schuster I s reputation example of nursing home development on Victoria has created a denomd for ass is tame f rm other nursing hone operators in this area In view of the fact that the school building is there and it is in the cc ' ty ' s interest to have it ant until i it s torn down,, it suns to us reasonable for the Council to allow this limited use of the building for a period of 24 nmths * (It is, of teral l , a unique single family land in the sense that it is occupied by a very large structure as compared to single family houses) , not typical on raw Single family zoned property. In effect, this is a method of enhancing the appearance of the property during an interim transition to residential. use