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health care, utilities, and personal sanitation facilities. Lastly, these rehabilitative case management/counseling services and basic necessities of daily living are combined with constant (24-hours, 365-days) staff supervision and monitoring to assure safety, security and program compliance. Comparable care services are offered in hospitals, sanitariums, convalescent homes, rest homes, nursing homes, and orphanages. Based on usage data from the existing VOA-MN facilities, the community impact of the proposed New Brighton facility will be less than the listed special uses in terms of traffic impact, parking needs, noise, use of city services, etc. The number of residents served by our program will be consistent with, or less than, the other residential care allowed uses. Our residents typically do not have regular visitors and are unlikely to have personal transportation needs that would require parking. The vehicle traffic generated from our use will be minimal and would consist primarily of our staff during shift changes. Given the traffic patterns at our existing facilities, our impact on traffic and parking within the adjoining neighborhood will be much lower than that of clinics, hospitals, and nursing/rest/convalescent homes. We are minimal users of city services since our on-site staff provides supervision, monitoring and security of residents and works with Federal agencies if law enforcement services are needed. The need for emergency medical services is highly uncommon for our program and is estimated to be less than required for health care uses such as nursing and convalescent homes, clinics and the other special uses geared toward an older population. Not surprising, no provision in the City's Comprehensive Plan is contrary to the proposed use. Numerous provisions are consistent, such as Neighborhood Policy No. 6 to "Locate medium and high-density housing where its traffic will not be required to use local residential streets that serve established single-family neighborhoods." VOA-MN is alternatively seeking to have its proposed use of 1820 Old Highway 8 N.W. approved as a permitted use pursuant to Section 6-520(4)(D) of the New Brighton Zoning Code. In conjunction with that application, VOA-MN responded to City staff request that it complete the Special Use Permit Worksheet. The completed Worksheet is attached to this narrative and provides supplemental information regarding the specifics of the proposed use, its compatibility with existing uses and the positive impact that the proposed use will provide to the adjacent area, based on the strong support of the communities surrounding its existing facilities in Roseville and Minneapolis. As part of VOA-MN's Christian Ministry of Service we believe that every human life is important and that everyone deserves a redemptive second chance. This philosophy is at the heart of our Residential Re-entry Centers. We combine strict safety,program compliance, education and compassion as we prepare our residents for a renewed future. We look forward to a further discussion of how our services can be beneficial to the neighborhood and to becoming a vibrant member of the New Brighton Community. GP:3006016 v2