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Brighton has updated its parking standards. Planning Staff is compelled to use the parking ratio for the use being proposed. Baker stated he shared Schiferl’s concern about the potential change in the number of drivers at Brightondale. Since the site would be completely filled, there is no place for future parking. Overflow parking can only go on the street or New Market’s parking lot. Baker stated, therefore, he does not feel the proposal has adequate parking. Livingston asked if a change of use must come before the Planning Commission for review. Mattila responded he was not aware of the conversion from independent living conventional apartments to an assisted living facility. Locke said the City would not allow senior facilities to convert to standard housing because of the parking ratios. Livingston said, if the owner of a market rate apartment complex wanted convert to a nursing care facility, they would have to come to the Planning Commission for approval. Mattila said that would be considered as an application for a special use permit. Livingston said normally nursing homes were licensed according to the number of beds in the facility and by care type, such as semi-skilled care and so forth. Gould responded assisted living facilities in Minnesota are not licensed or required to have a certificate of need. Gould said he thought the state would require licensing for assist living facilities within the next five years. G & P is prepared for more state control. Gould said the room arrangement in the Alzheimer’s wing makes conversion to an apartment building very difficult. Brightondale would go back to the same condition in 1985. Baker said the Alzheimer’s unit could remain a care unit and the Brightondale facility could go back to market rate. Gould said if that happened the parking would be the same as in 1987. Baker stated it would not be the same if the owner added twenty units. Gould responded that those units could never be rented as market rate units. Baker said the Alzheimer’s unit could remain and Brightondale could be converted back to market rate. Schiferl said there are ways to convert the Alzheimer’s unit to market rate by combining units. Gould said that making ten units out of the twenty might be possible. Gould said he wanted to make the point that the population more than seventy-five years old is exploding. By 2020, one quarter of our population will be more than sixty-five years of age. From a market standpoint, it does not make sense to go back to making Brightondale a market rate facility. Brightondale was not successful as a market rate facility, but is doing well as an assisted living facility. Hopefully, we will be able to offer senior coop units for independent living. Schiferl asked how Brightondale made the transition to assisted living. Was there any kind of approval process? Mattila said he did not know if the City was involved through the approval process. Locke said there was City involvement because of the bonds and the default situation, but there was no approval process involved in the change from a market rate facility to an assisted living facility. Baker said he asked for prints from the developer showing the exact proposal two months ago. These prints are still not available. The current prints do not show the fire lanes, the parking on the New Market parking lot, or the emergency easement to the Alzheimer’s wing. It is difficult to approve a site plan without detailed plans. Gould responded G & P is still working with New Market to revise the fire easement. Baker said print A1 showed the driveway making a common entry with the New Market parking lot. Print A1 and Print C1 do not match. Roger Johnson, the architect for the coop portion of the proposal, went over the plans with Baker. Baker said Johnson seemed unsure of the plan. The Planning Commission must have an exact plan to consider. I:\COMMISSIONS\PLANNING\MINUTES\1998\01-20-98.WPD 7