additional property located in the green here portion is about point three five acres from this white and we also be doing a land swap per day first name re my do not want to mess up her last announce it but we're doing a land swap here the reason for that is there is an awkward train where shape and what we're trying to do is align the entrance would just about forms with the tuscany entrance there's a mound here with solar panels and we are dressing that privately he has an encroachment on the property there's there's a mound there's grating that comes on your property so we're going to have that removed  fact oversize slightly so we're working with them just to clarify our calculations of how we got the sightings that we have and then they were general comments for notes to be added nothing significant pond is filled up a lot quicker we've never been reimbursed for we have to clean it out you know i have water photos of the water really just gushing across the road school buses of had some issues there we've seen a few  with me here tonight and as staff mentioned we're here for the power schoolhouse preschool learning center and the special exemption in various requests plans prior to getting your recommendation and moving on to the zone zoning period work just to give eighteenth hundreds in regard to when it was initially built and its location and what we have once again is the basically the site area or we have a relatively flat pad located in the front of the site the great drops back down slope into an undeveloped section to the west undeveloped in a single access driveway to a single family house off the slide and then this is actually one of the access drives through the elementary school across the street is a larger parcel of a single family home that's kind of surrounded by the access drive to the school on both sides and once again road located right along in through here as it is mentioned the overall site areas point nine a when you take a look at the existing right away which is about point two six your overall net site area is about point six four total acres in regard to the special exemption plans that we have here what we'd like to be able to do is to take the existing school and do a new addition to this new addition will be about a thirty by eighty foot addition out of the rear of the building and really then remodel the existing building in itself to provide the preschool learning a one way system out of out of the plan there will be to outdoor play areas associated with the site one located right along through here and the second one located through the section front entrance will be the area once again will have a small little free standing ornamental wall to help with some of the headlights located within the overall site area and once again the school was permitted under section four four zero six zero one location for school just to give you a little brief overview of the the building the additional be a two storey addition as i mentioned thirty by eighty this is the front of the front elevation looking at the front entrance of the existing schoolhouse and the addition on of the back this is the left side addition where we have the existing building located here and the side entrance to the the addition elevation looking into the woods with a secondary emergency exit out out of the back and then once again the right side entrance with this the schoolhouse building through here the the building materials will be matching what will happen with the existing schoolhouse in regard to brick colors and materials to match overall as mentioned we are looking in regard to not only for the special exemption will be looking for three modification or three variances associated with the schoolhouse site planes the first one is under section four four zero six zero one a minimum lot size and skin of the requirement we have to chew acre some of the setbacks in the last one would be parking areas adjacent to a single family residential lot requires an additional ten foot setback in the show you some of these details for each particular one so once again the first set back is the minimum family so once again we're really working with what's available and what really what's happening here in the past the school house was trying to be converted into a residential structure really had never worked a whole idea is really kind of bring it back to its ro foot setback that leaves nine feet associated with it the overall within site is about two hundred eighty three feet through this section and once again we do have the existing schoolhouse itself which is about eighteen feet off of setbacks that we're asking for once again because we're tied into the existing school building will last once again variances to ask for additional ten the requirement is under the school section of the special additional ten foot setback for corking lot who are better along the road for a total foot total of twenty feet feet so what's required is a twenty foot setback because directly across the street we have a large single family lot that surrounded by the existing school and we're providing a ten foot section through here now under that requirement for landscaping it requires one and a half times additional landscaping associated with that which we do and will provide in regard to the landscaping for the parking lot but they're going to say as a supplement to help reduce some of the setbacks and the glare we've added this small freestanding wall located along through this to help once again bring a little bit of a streetscape and also a buffer in regard to the parking structures working that will take care of this section so once again we really only have an eighteen space parking lot and we don't minimal parking in this kind of more of a pick up and drop off type type of facility also because one reason why we're not able to do this back further it is once again the steeper slopes that exist out back at the site and really place within this whole front area through this section as well as along the front section through here boulders place that abides six and a half to seven feet on center to help void any additional impacts if a car happens this slide off of the minimal through this section so once again we're really looking for the twenty twenty commission's recommendation in regard to the special exemption plans and various requests for the power hill school preschool learning center that is not an option all children will be over by bus or personal vehicle in addition to that the school itself is going to have a private me and for the kindergarten students during the may day switch over ye kids trickling in throughout the day and the staff it's going to be later in the day in midday when you actually see the full staffing that gears up is more students arrive so you will see the ebb and the younger children we start with and the younger children should be brought in by the parents the older children and we will have somebody outside to usher them in and to silicate the parent dropping off right right there and we will escort the children and so the buses will not be going through there is that an after school program or was that actually pick folks up from inside it was out from a salary coming from the school  gosh thank you very much mr zucker thank you very much my name is paul maner of the water senior living of minneapolis i'm a senior developer with our group and we appreciate your time this evening to walk through our application for a conditional use permit what i'd like to do this evening and we'll will try to be crisp with our presentation but is to give you a brief overview of who we are  in addition to our interest in peter's township and to demonstrate our compliance with the condition of the conditions of the condition permit and then to open it up for any discussion and questions  have been here and interested in this site valley broken for wayne for the past two years we've had an opportunity to make a presentation to you in the past i think it was  when my colleague john hunsaker appeared before the board and we also had a chance to introduce ourselves to the council back in march of last year so we're we're looking forward to making some progress here and just to get to where we are a senior living operator out of minneapolis we are an owner developer owner and operator of our communities were vertically integrated organization so the people inside the community are employees of ours we operate them we watch them very closely our buildings are typically a single building community roughly one hundred thirty to one hundred forty five units in today's world to the sites that we find we have a continuum of care including independent living personal care services as well as providing services for those that have memory care and dementia requirements we focus on health and well being our goal is to create communities where people can thrive so we end up focusing on the health and wellbeing of our of our residents their sense of security their sense of purpose new community their sense of connectivity to their community so each one of those each one of the programs that we employ on a daily basis really has a connection to that underlying philosophy which is something that we developed with the university of minnesota which is a key ingredient for what it is that we're doing communities we lead with hospitality and service and we support with tailored care options for those that need that care at some point in the future so we are independent living apartments are individually appointed with full kitchens and you can live in your apartment home as he would live anywhere else to the extent you need some care and some service we can provide that as part of the package on a cart basis depending on what it is that the individual mean we have eight communities  currently in the twin cities area with three under construction we have broken ground in a new community in the minneapolis area we have broken ground on one in the moore walky area and we broke ground last year in november on our first community here in the pittsburgh area up in marshall township right off of perry highway  why pittsburgh where we here we as i mention we have a growing base of communities in the twin cities area there are only so many opportunities that we can build before we begin to  activities there and we've had good success yes with our model and as we started looking at opportunities to expand nationally for a variety of reasons pittsburgh bubbled up to the top of our west it does have a higher percentage i know this is sort of a known quantity folks that live here but pittsburgh does have a relatively older population nationwide roughly fifteen percent each community has a nationwide basis the average number of people over sixty five is roughly fifteen percent here in the pittsburgh area it's closer to eighteen percent so about a twenty percent  difference relative to national norms there are fewer existing senior living communities in the pittsburgh area relative to growth that has happened elsewhere around the country pittsburgh in our opinion is still relatively underserved and we believe that there is an opportunity for a new type of housing alternative here when we build a community we free u housing and really promote life cycle housing most people like to stay where they have aged or where they have grown up and raise their families they'd like to stay in their own communities and so we create that opportunity for them to stay there to stay connected  and then finally we might be we particularly like high quality concentrations of shopping housing and office environments we're serving both president who is living with us but we're also serving their family and to place our communities in locations as i would describe them being in the line of flight of how people operated maneuver throughout their day it does help create that sense of community and connection to families  adult children and grandkids so our goal is to be embedded in part of the community that is consistent with our model to help that individual thrive we are and we don't place our communities out on the edge of town and in bucolic settings we like to be part of the mix because that helps us create the environment for the healthy living in the ability to thrive as we describe it closer to home here this is a rendering of our community that's under construction right now in marshall township on perry highway it's one hundred forty three units it has a mixture of the independent living in the personal care w dementia care as i described previously this community as well as the one that will talk about here this evening we put all of our resident resident parking underground most the folks that we are attracting are coming out of their homes where they have enclosed garages so we'd like to replicate that experience we think that's very important we should be opening this in may of this next  year i want to show you a couple of representative examples of communities that we've created around the twin cities areas and how we've been able to embed them in their particular locations this is a community that we call waters of fifty eight this is located in minneapolis proper to a concentration of retail activity like you have at the town center it's a four story building we opened this in two thousand and fourteen i think this is kind of interesting example because it's the opportunity that we have a valley broken fire lane sets itself up similarly to the way that this site presented itself to be adapted for this location the main drag if you will on the bottom of the screen is the local fiftieth street and we were able to worry in the community close to fiftieth street and to create a courtyard setting as you can see there in the foreground to try to create that connectivity to this particular location and an opportunity to activate the interaction between the property in the street scape as a result of that we're able to create a setting complete with benches and landscaping again this one faces south just like it does for us on valley brook so to be able to incorporate the sunlight in to make that part of the environment and to set up the architecture so that we get as much natural light into the building as possible helps for the for the sinus if you will that environment here's a second location that we have in the city of st paul  do what i'd like to do now i'm here this evening with grant sharing who is working with us on the civil engineering in the site planning standpoint to walk you through some of the site planning previously constructed projects and how they integrate those into the community and as paul said those examples are important because we're going to try to make that character here in peter's township so as ed started off saying tonight focuses on conditional use we're here for a recommendation to council for a living facility take b and then also for the four story however we want to show you what our concept is for the layout and that's the key word this is the concept not everything is for detail can function as a transition between the lower intensity residential uses that are on the west and to be tensional higher intensity uses that could be established within mcmurry town center so we have to get this  right in the way that we do that is through being sensitive to the adjacent properties and also making sure that this building is a statement it's not going to overpower the streetscape but it's going to be that gate with fact coming into the community layout the big thing that we're trying to do the ten thousand foot view on this is building placement so we were before the planning commission we were also before council but we also had a public workshop with the neighborhood roughly a year ago we actually invited everybody from williamsburg common in the neighborhood and asked them what they thought of our concept and then tried to integrate some of the comments that they provide the biggest thing discussed that there there's a desire to have a turn through the cycling process we are going to work with our traffic engineer in the township traffic engineer to do a study to see if it's want to if it's warranted and other proofs we are potentially going to move forward with that now moving the building is for at least as possible also provides that space where if we need to dedicate land for additional right away we can do so  we've also brought the building to about iraq it's twenty feet which is required by code but what that helps to do is establish that the find edge along valley road trying to obtain that that gateway effect in the shape of an age and what that does is it provides an opportunity to create a courtyard space here which we sent examples from previous construction what that does is help bring down the scale building the perceived impact paul said we also are doing underground parking so as you enter in from for our lane there is a drop off at our primary entrance and then you can go down a access ramp to the underground parking facility now  that garage see that is underground the only place that it will be visible is from this access point here so that's that's the overview the site plan getting into the conditional use items first is group living facility type b there are multiple criteria within the code and i'm not going to go through each one we provided a narrative in your packets that shows how we meet each one of those criteria such as the minimum eight ridge is one acre we have three point seven two we have to have full time full time staff at all times we comply with that so each one use residential so correct so we are two hundred fifteen feet to the fourth floor if i can actually  feet from an overlay district that is st benedict's so in this location here we are seventy five feet you would notice there's a line here we're pushing for storage back this will be third story and that will be potentially a back forty seven feet meeting those requirements along for our lane the fourth war is one hundred and thirty feet i believe on twenty seven and then from the second story sixty feet so with that we believe that we do meet the criteria for the condition uses but overall we think this is really one of the best potential uses that you can add on this site for multiple reasons it's a transitional use between the intensity uses it provides that it provides a population built into the town center so for a town center to thrive one of the biggest elements of that is people so we are putting that critical mass of population here that can see for the activity within the town center this is also a low traffic generator and there are opportunities if this didn't come forward there's possible for a retail use or a restaurant to go in here that could generate much more traffic require more parking and not provide some of the amenities that we're providing such as the courtyard space and other open space and buffer g it is also sensitive to the surrounding uses it's a residential type use so complements those properties that are adjacent to it on the west so  that would be a concern for connection would could come through the primary entrance we dropped off this would be a secondary access point where they can then walk down to the trail whatever destination they choose so we think that we know that through these meetings traffic is going to be something that comes up it is a low traffic generator but there is that opportunity to we're providing options where people can walk if they want to so if this was parallel to friar lane that's the two level section of our building and that is our personal care side of the building so that two level area would accommodate the thirty four personal care units that we would have that is a secure area so the access to that would be through the through the main lobby and then down to to the left side into that particular area we typically have an outdoor area that is secure that is adjacent to the personal care area so that we can create some interaction with the outdoors and create that opportunity for people to get some outdoor space outdoor activity if you will garden area we still have some site planning detail out here exactly where we locate that will will need to continue working on that you know there may be an opportunity to do it on the north end or the top end of that h there we've got some land area there we may be able to do it green if you can sort of highlight the comments on the lower section as grant said that is adjacent to  relatively at grade with valley brook above that those are in essence courtyard areas that are right off of the lobby of the building so we're creating a split level opportunity and that ma serve as an opportunity for in a gated way in a safe and secure way that could create that opportunity for our residents in that portion of the building studying the time conditions everything that we need to have not had that opportunity we understand that that would like to keep it for tonight but i want to make the claim commission just aware that before the would be impacted as well so there's a lot of details of this that just for the record were uncertain with the way it's worded and when we go before council we're going to make sure that that's clear where w that's correct we it is intended to be a self contained environment we have a full service restaurant that will serve both the independent side of the building as well as second seating area for those in the personal care side of the building we may have in what we are working in to some of our newer communities is a pub setting we also have a beast row cafe beast road it's more of a starbucks s etting but that's intended to be for the good of the residents we haven't figured out a way to activate that with the balance of an outdoor you know access for the public that moves into sort of needing more parking and it creates operational challenges that you know in a perfect world we'd like to be able to do that but we haven't advanced that concept enough to make it practical yeah i think it would be and that's consistent with or see already more of the second changes from the setback we were finding that ten to fifteen does not work if it hangs