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:7 GOOD NEIGHBOR, INC., CASE 1723 0 PAGE 2 bedroom to the east. Ten adults will be cared for during an eight hour period on weekdays only. Ms. Oswald -Anderson indicates the cost is $23.00 per day. She notes that approximately half of the clients are market rate subscribers and the other half are subsidized by existing adult alternative care grant programs administered by the County. 5. The organization utilizes a van with a capacity of eleven persons to pick up the clients who will then be unloaded in the driveway area. The site plan indicates a turn -around so that the vehicle can back up around the property and head forward onto County Road B. 6. Food will be prepared in the Golden Age Nursing Home and transported to the facility for service at the site. The nominal staff requirement is one staff person per eight clients. Thus, there may be one or two staff persons on site at any one time. 7. Ms. Oswald -Anderson informs us that she has talked to many of the neighbors in the immediate area and received a positive response to the program. Good Neighbor, Inc. owns the contiguous residence to the west on the immediate northeast corner of County Road B and Hamline. 8. Though many of you are probably familiar with this area of the City, It would certainly be helpful if members of the Planning Commission and Council were to view the property. If providing a residential setting for the proposed function is an objective, it would appear that this sire would do so. If clients are generally moved by a van from their residences to the site, it would appear that traffic and parking conflicts may not be a problem. However, there appears to be no parking area for onsite, employees. if such employees operate out of the Golden Age Nursing Horne, this may not be a problem. 9. In Minnesot:,, group homes can be operated by withuut City permission for up to six persons living in a home in any residential district. In this rase, of course, none of the ten clients will be living on the site. Up to Con persons will be there from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on the weekdays. 10. Tho application is for a Special Use Permit to which the conditions can be applied. One condition might be related to timing. The Planning Commission and Council may consider a time limit on the permit, thereby giving an opportur ty to experience the operation of this relatively new type of service: in a single-family home. The remodeling costs do not appear to be significant; therefore, a trial period of two to three years may be reasonable. We suggest that the permit might be conditional upon there being no expansion to the facility and that the operation be confined to serving tc,i clients as proposed by the applicant. The permit could be conditional upon there being State regulations that are applicable. If there are no such regulations adopted, additional conditions could be considered with respect to this proposal. 11. It appears from past experience in Minnesota that the regulation of such facilities by the State has been appropriate and well done. It would appear in the best interests of the City not to duplicate or to compete with the State in this area of activity. Thus, adoption of State regulations for the facility proposed would appear to be the best course.