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6. ADDITIONAL WRITTEN ITEMS Variance Standards: Parking SKILLED NURSING PARKING VARIANCE FROM 1 CAR PER 3 BEDS TO 1 CAR PER 6 BEDS. A variance cannot be approved unless the Planning Commission and City Council find that the following standards have been met. Please provide a response as to how/why your project will meet these criteria. Use additional sheets if necessary and consult with the Planning Director at your Pre-Application Meeting if you need clarification on the intent of any of the below standards. 1. Practical difficulties We would like to blend the landscaping on the site with the required parking spaces. We would like to provide less parking for the skilled nursing facility to enable us to have more landscaping. 2. Reasonable use and 3. Applying to property Our current community has 105 skilled nursing beds. At this time in we have approximately 99 parking spaces. Operationally, during peak hours we employee 76 associates on-site. The bulk of our parking is in the back lot for associates. However, the main entrance to our community is located on Black Oak Drive. The front of our building by the main entrance there are 7 parking spaces. At times this can lead to approximately 10 cars parking on the street due to visitors or business partners even though there are open spaces available in the back lots. In our future plans we plan to have 94 skilled nursing beds, 60 beds/56 Independent Living units, 40 Assisted Living units and 24 Memory Care Units. We plan to have parking to accommodate these needs as follows: • 76 spots for Skilled Nursing Employees. • 56 spots for the Independent Living Residents. • 20 spots for Assisted Living Residents. • 25 spots for the employees of the Assisted Living/Independent Living. • 0 spots for the Memory Care Residents. • Note: 60 of these spaces would be underground parking. Operationally we foresee a need of 177 parking spaces. Our plan includes 210 spaces. The 33 other spaces would be for visitors, physicians, and business partners. In addition, 76 parking spaces for the skilled nursing bed employees are during peak staffing times. Many of our departments get considerably smaller after 3 or 4pm such as housekeeping/maintenance which would go from 7 spots to 1 after 3pm every day of the week. Another department, therapy, goes from 12 parking spaces down to 1 or 2 after 3pm. These spaces (approx. 16) are now available to be used by visitors -who typically visit during after normal business hours. FEBRUARY 14,2020 LAND USE APPLICATION: 1101 BLACK OAK DRIVE, NEW BRIGHTON, MN 55112 27