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-5- Planning File 715 - Wallace Mailand and Robert Johnson request for special use permits and variances at 1045 Larpenteur Avenue Presentation Mr. Ray Kirkman, representing Mr. Mailand and Mr. Johnson, and the Knutson Develop= ment Campany indicated that the site consits of approximately 4~ acres. He stated that the proposal includes the construction of an 8 story highrise apartment with one hundred forty five one bedroom tmits and twenty three townhouses of two and three bedrooms. He indicated that the Village had rezoned the property in question in 1968 to R-3A and at that time the Village had granted a special use permit for a planned unit development and variance to density requirement permitting 168 dwelling units on the property. Because of the high interest rates at the time of the rezoning, the property owners were not able to proceed ahead with plans to construct the apartments as approved and, therefore, the special use permit as granted by the Village had expired. Mr. Kirkman had a slide presentation showing buildings which the Knutson Company has constructed in other parts of the State of Minnesota for the elderly. He in- dicated that the design which is proposed for this highrise elderly building is an atrium concept. It was his feeling that the atrium creates a focal point for the building and that there exists a higher sense of cormnunity among the residents because of the openness which is part of the atrium concept. He also stated that with 168 units in the project, a top notch on-site manager could be afforded. The persons re- siding in the townhouse portion of the proj ect would have incomes in the area of $5,400 to $9,000 per year Mr. Kirkman indicated that he had recently become aware that the florist who owns the adjacent property to the east was concerned because of the shadow which would be cast on his greenhouses and gardens and, therefore, reduce the amount of sunlight and harm his business. He indicated that to accommodate the florist they would be willing to place the highrise on the eastern side of the property rather than the west portion as is now proposed. He stated that his calculations indicated there would be 1 ittle shadowing of the greenhouse and gardens if the highrise were placed on the western portion of the property. Mr. Kirkman stated that the FHA regulations do not provide for the developer to re- strict only to the elderly; however, he stated it was the intention of the developer to restrict rentals in the highrise to persons 62 or over. The two and three bedroom townhouses would be rented to families. Discussion Mr. G. Johnson asked what the rentals would be for the units. Mr. Kirkman indicated the base rents would be $128 per month for the one bedroom, $150 for the two bedroom and $186 per month for the three bedroom. Mr. Vern Johnson indicated the property tax on "236 Proj ects" is one half of what it would be on a conventional apartment project. He asked if the applicant would consider constructing the townhouses under conventional financing thereby provid- ing 100% taxes on the townhouse units. Mr. Kirkman indicated that the Department of Housing and Urban Development would probably not fund a totally elderly project. Mr. North reported that the Village Fire Marshal had indicated that because of the open corridors overlooking the atirum, the building would have to be completely sprink- led in order to comply with the State Building Code.