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that would be outside the coop facility would serve the remaining Snyder’s adequately. Additional stalls would be located to the south of the Snyder’s building. Parking on-site for the coop would be adequate and there would be underground parking in the coop building. New Market has adequate parking and the peripheral commercial uses have adequate parking. Zisla pointed out the case report states the ordinance requires 129 stalls and G & P proposes 177 stalls. How does that fit with the shared parking agreement? Mattila responded of the 177 stalls, 90 would be underground. The 26 parking stalls shared between the City and the coop would be in the northwest portion of the surface parking. Zisla asked if the Parks Director had a recommendation. Mattila responded the Parks and Recreation Commission felt that there would be an adequate number of stalls and recommended approval of the plan. Baker stated he was concerned about the proposed senior housing using the R-3A classification being limited to two and a half stories. Baker said Brightondale should be R-3B because it is three stories and has different parking requirements. Mattila stated the proposed senior building is using the R-3A District because the R-3A District deals more appropriately with buildings such as condominiums and apartment buildings. R-3B deals with the number of bedroom units such as townhouse developments. Staff is using the City’s parking standards for residential developments restricted to the elderly. It does not distinguish between R-3B and R-3A. Baker said the number of parking stalls was based on number of bedrooms units in the R-3B, rather than the number of units. Mattila said staff used the parking standards for residential developments restricted to the elderly. G & P is proposing 97 dwelling units. Those 97 stalls would be underground. For visitor parking, the standard is one space for the first ten units, and .25 spaces of visitor parking for each unit over 10 units. This comes to 129 stalls. Baker stated this is a public hearing and asked if anyone in the audience wished to speak on this proposal. Ron Olson, 2026 28th Avenue, stated he was representing the neighbors on 28th Avenue. Olson asked the people he was representing to stand. Olson asked for the overhead showing the Alzheimer’s unit. Olson said the people on 28th Avenue got together as a group and also had some meetings with the developer. Olson distributed copies of the list of concerns developed by the residents at these meetings. Olson pointed out that the homes on 28th Avenue would abut the proposed Alzheimer’s unit. The developer who originally determined the lot sizes got approval from the City Council to have reduced lot sizes. Some lots are 25 to 35 feet wide. The setbacks are 5 feet from the lot line on the back. Therefore, the diagrams shown tonight were out of proportion. Our homes are much closer to the Alzheimer’s unit than any of the plans indicate. The reason the lot sizes are so small is there was an agreement made where the builder would donate the park to the City. That is how the park came to exist. The other reason the developer wanted smaller lot sizes is so the property that is now Brightondale could be developed and would have more frontage on Rice Creek Road. In retrospect, allowing these small lots was a mistake. Fourteen years ago, the City Council decided to let the developer put in the park in exchange for the small lots. Olson said he would talk about the items on the concerns list. First, the residents on 28th Avenue are very concerned about the proximity of this proposed building. Twenty-feet from the property line is not very much when the setback from the back of the residential lots is five feet. When the residents go out to their patios and look up there is going to be a building right there in their face. Olson pointed out that the existing building is very close and people stand in the windows of the building and look right down into the windows of the homes on 28th Avenue. The homeowners have to have privacy curtains on their windows twenty-four hours a day. Olson pointed out that measuring 30 feet in this room would give an idea how close the homes are to Brightondale. Now the developer wants to add a building that would come even closer to the homes on 28th. The developer talks about the proposed building being a one-story building. However, the elevation is I:\COMMISSIONS\PLANNING\MINUTES\1997\10-21-97.WPD 7