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Accessible Space, Inc. Roselac� n Village We are proposing to provide 18 parking spaces, 8 which are van accessible handicapped spaces, and we prove an additional4 spaces on our site. It is our experience that few of the residents will have the ability to own a specially fitted van. The 8 handicap spaces we have proposed are by our experience more than adequate to serve the parking needs of the residents. The 10 regular spaces will meet the needs of the resident caretaker, staff and visitors. Over time and in response to demand, unused handicap spaces may be restriped for regular use, or unused regular spaces may be restriped for handicapped use, and I or the 4 proven spaces can be paved. C. Expected effects of this Nlixed Use development on the neighborhood and community. The primary effect of the approval of the requested Planned Unit Development will be to return a mostly vacant, underutilized, and partially abandoned parcel of land in the City to productive and compatible use. The occupants of both the apartments, mobility impaired adults, and the office, not retail, commercial building, will be perhaps the most calm group of neighbors possible. Their activities will certainly have less impact on the unmediate neighbors than other uses that would be permitted by the present Business zoning district designation of the site, and previous development proposals for this site. Both the design of the office building and the type and pattern of the activity of its tenant owners will provide reinforcement of the traditional and desired future commercial, but not auto oriented, not 24 hours a day, not 7 days a week, character of the intersection. The specialized apartment opportunity provided by Accessible Space Inc., will implement City, State and National goals for diversity in housing, and provide a place for the tenants to comfortably and safely reduce their isolation and participate more fully in the life of the community. Pulling the buildings to the edges of the site surrounds and contains the activity that occurs in the parking lots for both uses The location of the buildings, the multiple planes of the A SI building, the plantings and the architectural fence all combine to provide a visual transition to our commercial and residential neighbors. The location of the runoff control and sedimentation pond in the southeast comer of the site complements and extends the open back yards of our neighbors. Parking is located primarily in the center of the site, but where it is on the edges it is adjacent to the parking area of the neighboring apartment, or, when ne�t to the apartment building, will, by the distance from the entrance to the office building, be the least used and least active parking on the site. These spaces will also be buffered by a fence and landscaping. And, due to the patterns of activity of the tenants of both the apartment and offices, very little parking activity will occur in the evening or nighttime period. Initial City staff review of the the proposed activities with the proposed plan has indicated the development can be accommodated by the in place public utilities and infrastructure. The dedication of additional Lexington Ave. right of way, and the consolidation, reduction in number and placement of the entrances and exits will assure travel to the development will be safe, and not increase congestion on RoselaWri and Lexington to a level that is detrimental to the neighbors. irz�;`o2