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CASE NUMBER: 1829 APPLICANT: Arthur Shuster/Richard Webb LOCATION: East of Victoria, Northerly of Woodhill Drive (see sketch) ACTION REQUESTED: Amendment of Comprehensive Plan from Low Density to High Density Residential, Rezoning from R-1 to R-3A, Special Use Permit, and Variance to Setback and Parking PLANNING CONSIDERATIONS: 1. In 1959 Arthur Shuster developed the Lake Ridge Nursing Home in Roseville at the northwest corner of Victoria and what was then County Road C (now Woodhill Drive). A first addition was added in May of 1973 and a second addition in 1983, with the home now having 240 beds. Over the years, the home has developed a reputation as a model for others to follow. Mr. Shuster and his colleagues have developed a significant business as consultants to other nursing homes around the country. 2. Prior to 19772 they had discussed with the staff the possibility of acquiring the old Owasso School site with the intent of ultimately developing some form of high quality, unique elderly housing facility, where the elderly could live well with substantially less care and supervision normally provided in a nursing home. We agreed that such a facility carefully designed and kept at a relatively small scale might be considered appropriate for the site in view of its somewhat isolated location relevant to a single-family neighborhood. In discussions, emphasis was always placed on quality, design, limited traffic, and "high end" market rate facilities. Such a facility is now being proposed by the Arthur Shuster organization in conjunction with Elder Homestead, 'the originators of a recent new concept in elderly facilities and care. 3. Several years ago, some of the executives of General Mills, the Wilder Foundation, and others assisting, came up with an elderly residential facility known as Elder Homestead. A prototype of that development was built in the City of Minnetonka at Highway 7 and County Road 73 in 1986. It appears to be a unique and high quality development with a waiting list of applicants. That concept is being applied to the Roseville property by Arvid Elness Architects who conceived the design for the Minnetonka project. 4. Attached are copies of extensive information regarding the Elder Homestead development concept, s -ocifications for the Roseville proposal, and a series of eight reduced copies of the elements of the design.