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? ?.. <br />The builder at other meetings have suggest some of the residents will have Alzheimer's disease. <br />The American Heritage Dictionary states: A severer neurological disorder marked by progressive <br />dementia and cerebral cortical atrophy which is a conic disease so this is going to be a nursing <br />home. Mr. Tallon reminded Mr. Troibner the board is not here to license or not license this <br />facility. Mr. O'Neil has stated before he is not seeking a nursing home license therefore he <br />cannot operate as a nursing home. He can only operate as an assistant living facility. That is by <br />the state of Ohio and we have nothing to do with that. Mr. Troibner suggested his point is a <br />nursing home is a commercial facility and you can call this what you want, but if you have <br />chronically ill people by the City's definition your putting up a nursing home. These are not <br />apartments. Mr. Dubelko suggested that is not true. That would be having a definition were the <br />tail is waging the dog. Otherwise everyone would conclude that an apartment building with one <br />chronically ill person in it made it a nursing home. Mr. Troibner suggested an apartment building <br />would not have full time nurses taking care of people like this facility will. Mr. Dubelko inferred <br />again the code provides if this is a structure design for an elderly it has to be one of three <br />varieties, either nursing home, single family cluster, or an apartment dwelling. You need to look <br />at the code carefully because the code indicates that if it's apartments for elderly there are certain <br />things permitted that would otherwise not be permitted in a regular multiple residents. If you <br />looked at the code you would see those things. Those things do make it a little bit different then <br />the typical apartment that you would expect, but on the other hand our code then defines it as an <br />apartment for the elderly, and permits it. Mr. Tallon stated this is an assisted living facility. Mr. <br />Dubelko wanted to add to Mr. Tallon's statement to clarify it. It is used as an assisted living <br />facility and their license tracks that concept. Apparently they are applying for a residential care <br />facility which is like assisted living they are interchangeable terms. The state now calls it <br />residential care facility. It use to be called assisted living facility years ago, I think. That is <br />irrelevant for zoning purposes. For us we have to view it as an apartment, which is an apartment <br />for the elderly that is licensed as a residential care facility. Mr. Brennan suggested first of all <br />when you consider what this property is zoned for, they could have came in and put up <br />apartments. If you have seen some of the apartments in North Olmsted. Though no one likes to <br />see developments go in behind their homes, this seams to be a very good residentially geared <br />usage. As to more Victoria Plaza's or Horizons West which they could put in there. The major <br />point I'm trying to make is what he is proposing isn't as bad as it could be, and it is zoned for <br />what he is proposing. I would like to see the traii'ic impact study though. All these driveways <br />dump onto residential streets, we need to have an over all traffic impact study done. <br />R. Tallon motioned to approve the Wellington Place (Assisted Living), a proposal to construct <br />senior housing facility. Location is on the south side of Brookpark Road, west of Clague Road <br />and north of Mastick Road. Property fronts on Brookpark Road, Clague Road, and Mastick <br />Road with the recommendations that the developer: remove the two parking spaces on the south <br />east corner from the front parking lot to the rear to intersperse the evergreens from where they <br />stop now all the way around to the second lot on the east end of Mastick; work with the forester <br />so as to preserve as many of the existing trees as possible; remove the five spaces on the north <br />end of the landbanked parking on the east side of the building and put them in the back; if it is <br />decided to put the HVAC unit on the outside of the building it must be relocated to the north <br />west corner of the outside of the building alcove, such HVAC unit is to be sound proofed; work <br />with Mr. Vannoy to resolve any problems with the lights entering his house; submit a traffic study <br />6