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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1983-089 CCRadoption: Member Gene Lhotka introduced the following resolution and moved its RESOLUTION NO. 83 -89 RESOLUTION REGARDING THE DISPOSITION OF PLANNING COPMICSSION APPLICATION NO. 83021, A REQUEST FOR A SPECIAL USE PERMIT FOR A BOARD AND CARE FACILITY AT 4408 69TH AVENUE NORTH WHEREAS, the applicant, Diane Wright has requested, under Planning Commission Application No.'83021, a special use permit to operate a board and care home for mentally ill adults in a four unit apartment building located at 4408 69th Avenue North within the City of Brooklyn Center; and WHEREAS, extensive public hearings were held on this application before the Planning Commissicnand before the City Council; NOW, THEREFORE, based upon the information gathered at these meetings, and upon written documents received from the applicant, from the City staff, and other interested persons, the City Council makes the following findings: 1. The property in question is a lot which is substandard in size, consisting of approximately 9,400 square feet and containing an apartment building with four two bedroom units, parking for six automobiles, and approximately 2,600 square feet of recreation area in the front yard. 2. The applicant's plan is to house 18 to 20 mentally ill persons in the apartment building and to assign tWO patients to each bedroom, to provide for a central kitchen and dining area, and to convert the remaining rooms to offices, a recreation room and twv livingrooms. 3. The property fronts on 69th Avenue North which is a two -lane heavily traveled county road carrying approximately 8,300 vehicles per day; the property is not served by sidewalks and although it is served by a bus line on Brooklyn Boulevard, the bus trips per day are infrequent on 69th Avenue North. 4. The residents of the facility will require between two and four staff members together with a cook /clerical person during the day and one staff member at night, resulting in two to four staff vehicles on the site together with a van for resident transport- ation on the site during the daytime hours. 5. The applicant states that the target population would consist of chronically mentally ill adults over the age of 21 years with severe or persistent or emotional disorders which severely limit their functioning capabilities. The proposed residents Would come from board and care facilities in the City of Minneapolis, from the Veteran's Administration Hospital at Fort Snelling and frcm the State Hospital for Mentally Ill persons in Anoka. The objective of the board and care facility Would be to assess a patient's problems and needs, to establish goals, to provide counseling and group therapy with the eventual goal of moving the patient to a facility in which they could operate more independently. The patients would be supervised while at the home, but would be unsupervised off site. RESOLUTION NO. 83 -89 Typical off site activities would be going to vocational training outlets, working in volunteer activities and in sheltered workshops and for those who are employed, going to work. One of the goals of the program is to place these patients in the community where they have better access to normally functioning lifestyles and can be closer to their families from whom they can receive visitation, social support and with whom they can occasionally visit for over nights. Their transportation would be provided by bus service, by the van, and to some extent by automobiles owned by the residents themselves, together with transportation provided by their families. 6. The Council finds that the proposal provides just enough parking for staff needs and the van, and that no parking would be available for the residents' automobiles, for visitors' automobiles, or for service and delivery vehicles. 7. The Council finds that outdoor recreation facilities at the site are almost nonexistent due to lack of space and that pedestrian travel to the nearest park would require the use of 69th Avenue since no sidewalks exist and that such pedestrian traffic coupled with high traffic volume on 69th Avenue and lack of parking at the site would result in unsafe conditions for the residents, for people in the neighborhood, and for the traffic users of 69th Avenue. 8. The Council finds that the plan to convert the building to board and care for 18 to 20 adults would result in crowding and would not provide a healthy and comfortable environment for the residents of the board and care facility. 9. The Council finds that the applicant has not had adequate opportunity to review with residents of the neighborhood the problems that may arise due to congestion, parking, noise pedestrian and vehicular traffic and that neighborhood meetings were proposed by the City Council and were rejected by both the applicant and the spokesman for people in the neighborhood. 10. The Council finds that the proposed residents of the building do not fall within the definition of "mentally retarded or physically handi- capped persons" contemplated by minnesota Statute 462.357 sub- division 8. 11. The Council finds that the proposal for 18 to 20 residents exceeds the maximum number for occupancy established by Minnesota Statute 462.357 subdivision 8. 12. The Council finds that the activity and congestion resulting from the proposed use will diminish the use and enjoyment of the owners of adjacent property in the immediate vicinity. 13. The Council finds that the proposed site is a nonconforming use in that there is inadequate parking available on the site and the lot is substandard in size, and the proposed use would be an increase in intensity and an expansion of such a nonconforming use. RESOLUTION NO. 83 -89 Based on the foregoing findings, the minutes of the Planning Commission, the written materials submitted, and the comments of all interested citizens; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Brooklyn Center that the special use permit for a board and care facility for mentally ill persons at 4408 69th Avenue North, comprehended by Planning Commission Application No. 83021, is hereby denied. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Brooklyn Center that the City of Brooklyn Center officially recognizes the need for the type of facility proposed and hereby makes it the policy of the City to encourage such facilities under conditions and at locations compatible with surrounding neighbor- hoods and which provide the maximum in healthy environment for the residents of the facility. June 13, 1983 •-�1 ATTEST: The motion for the adoption of the foregoing resolution was duly seconded by member Celia Scott and upon vote being taken thereon, the following voted in favor thereof Dean Nyquist, Gene Lhotka, Celia Scott, Bill Hawes, and Rich Theis; and the following voted against the same: none, whereupon said resolution was declared duly passed and adopted.