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HomeMy WebLinkAboutPC76006 - 1/15/76 - 6451 Brooklyn BlvdPLANNING COMMISSION FILE CHECKLIST File Purge Date: iz f�%95 FILE INFORMATION Planning Commission Application Number: 74.aoe. PROPERTY INFORMATION Zoning: -K5 PLAN REFERENCE Note: if a plan was found in the file during the purge process, it was pulled for consolidation of all plans. Identified below are the types of plans, if any, that were consolidated. • Site Plans • Building Plans • Other: FILE REFERENCE Note: The following documents were purged when this project file became inactive. We have recorded the information necessary to retrieve the documents. Document Type Date Range Location Agendas: Planning Commission Office Minutes: Planning Commission i/iS/7L City Vault Minutes: City Council 12 4-/7Z, City Vault Document Tvpe Number Location Resolutions: Planning Commission City Vault Resolutions: City Council City Vault Ordinances: City Council City Vault CITY OF BROOKLYN CENTER PLANNING COMMISSION ZONING APPLICATION Application No. 76006 Please Print Clearly or Type Street Location of Property 6451 Brooklyn Boulevard Legal Description of Property Tract A, R.L.S. 970 Owner Welcome Community Home, Inc. Address 4805 Colfax Avenue South Applicant James Just, Director Phone No. 825-0831 Address 13416 County Road 15 Mpls., 55441 Phone No. 546-1472 Type of Request: Rezoning Subdivision Approval Variance Site & Bldg. Plan Approval X Special Use Permit Other: Description of Request: _ Special use for group care facility in the R-5 zoning (Chapter 35-314) Fee $ 25.00 Receipt No. 42973 Dates of P.C. Consideration: Approved V. Denied ing conditions: gnature PLANNING COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION district th191 , subject to the follow - a i rma n ---------------- ------------------------------- CITY COUNCIL ACTION Dates of Council Consideration: Approved_ Denied this day of� 19 A, with the following amendment: Clerk P/I Form No. 18 (over please) —W c H- Welcome Community Home, Inc. PHONE:825-0831 JAMES JUST, DIRECTOR I 4805 COLFAX AVENUE SOUTH MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. 55409 December 16,1975 Dear Sirs: Welcome Community Home is a residential facility designed to provide individual, group and family counselling for up to nine girls. we are licensed as a social service agency by the Minnesota Department of Public Welfare. Uur license specifies the age range of our clients as thirteen to seventeen, but our experience has shown that the girls in our program tend to be fourteen to sixteen years of age. In view of the fact that we anticipate having eight to nine girls in residence on the average, we have been advised by Fir. Blair Tremere that an application for a Special use permit wuuld be in order. Welcome community Home has operated this particular group home at o451 brooklyn Boulevard since Uctober of 1972. Our girls are pre-del- inouent younrUsters, i.e., kids who are experiencing family and/or school adjustment problems which have become magnified to the point where a temporary move out of the home is necessary to address the issues. It should be understood that the fact of alternative residence does not necessarily mean that the responsibility for the dysfunctional family situation may be attributed totally to the child; we find that all family members contribute in some way to the deterioration of family relatinnships end, while our girls may justifiably be identified as the source of ,he "problem", there are at least as many cases where the parents are presenting as many if not more problems than the child. In the latter. instance, the child still becomes the focal paint of the matter and is the one who leaves home if a separation is deemed to be in order, but this is primarily a question of logistics, not causes. In short, I am trying to point out that our girls are not the stereotyped "juvenile delinquent" and, as a matter of fact, may not be the central problem within the family at all. Rather, they are able to maintain themselves within the community, although not without the potential for problems. It is highly unlikely that potential problem areas would include any threat to persons or prop- erty in any same. Uur girls' acting out behavior tends to follow the pattern of truancy, running away or curfew violation and even that is of a curisiderably reduced nature. I attribute the low potential for difficulty to the fact that our program is successf.Illy able to identify and provide alternatives to dysfunctional behavior (although not without setbacks) and to the fact that we on not try to be all things to all people, i.e., we are selective as to who is accepted into the program. We receive referrals through the welfare department and, after a series of interviews involving tare child, her family, caseworker, our staff and any other concerned party, a determination is made as to the needs and wishes of the child and her family and the ability to meet same on the part of our staff. Placement at Welcome Community Home is voluntary; we will not accept a child who is not r:rilling to involve herself in our program and put forth the effort to change problem behavior. Staff at the home include a married cnuple who live in (The girls are supervised by an adult at all times.) and a therapist who is responsible for individual, group and family counselling. They are sup- ported by myself in the capacity of Executive Director and by general administrative staff sup erviseo by me. As noted above, we have been located in the community since uctuber, 1y%2. bur girls have been in attendance at Northview Junior High bchnol and Park L;enter uunior High School (All our girls attend school in the regular curriculum.), held part time jobs and generally perturmed successfully within the community. I feel that nur record speaks for itself in this regard and that our continued presence in the community will benefit the community in terms of the type of service rendered far ware than any potential for difficulty. 1 hope this letter offers some clarification regarding our program. Please fr".el free to contact me at any time with any questions or concerns. Sincerely yo rs-f-.." ame`s A . f JJ/jj