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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,June 3, 2019 Page 7 Councilmember Willmus reported at the planning hearing there was considerable discussion around parking. He understood there was also a lot of discussion about looking at the traffic studies and he did not see this project as having a significant impact to traffic. What he did have a concern with is the overall density and CommonBond's ability to accommodate parking for these units onsite. When there is a lack of nearby services to a development there will be people driving to get to the grocery store, which is a considerable distance away and he thought it was a misnomer to say there will not be people driving. He asked what type of ef- forts will be made to assure that there is not overflow parking into the neighbor- hood. Ms. Stockstrom stated the parking ratio right now is about 1.5 to 1. Common- Bond is planning for 97 spaces for about sixty units. She asked Mr. Mitten, the property manager to come up and talk about the parking at the other properties. Mr. Mitten has managed a number of senior properties, fourteen of them in the past seven years. He indicated he has done a study and went through his comput- er for parking space that was available at those facilities and based on his recall, and he talked to a few of the other regionals to get some background information, it is surprising but in every single case, all fourteen, there were less parking spac- es than units and in some cases there were spaces available despite the fact there was not enough parking spaces for what he would look as a market rate property. He did not know the reason for that, but did know it is an observation. Generally, CommonBond would find that seniors who move to a community such as this come from the community and their friends often live with them so there is not a need to drive so far to speak with their friends. If transportation is needed, it is often available within the community from family members or friends that per- haps do not live on the site. The need for them to have a vehicle is perhaps less. With the location of public transportation nearby and accessibility to that, he would suspect that after the car is not being driven, the senior may part with it. He thought with 97 spaces available, CommonBond is well situated to have more than enough parking for the sixty units. Councilmember Willmus thought that was an interesting observation because as someone who has also been involved in property management and property de- velopment for a number of years, he would give a little bit of pause to some of that. He stated there are other senior facilities around Roseville which see a sig- nificant number of people who are driving. That is a concern he has about this project. Councilmember Laliberte stated she watched the presentation at the Planning Commission and appreciated that the presentation was similar but updated some of the information for this meeting.