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NORTH OLMSTED CITY COUNCIL MINUTES OF THE PUBLIC HEARING OCTOBER 4, 2005 Present: President of Council Kennedy, Council Members Barker, Gareau, Miller, Nashar, Orlowski, Ryan, Tallon Also Present: Clerk of Council Seman President of Council Kennedy called the public hearing to order at 7 p.m. in Council Chambers, 5200 Dover Center Road, North Olmsted, Ohio. President Kennedy announced that the public hearing was being held with regard to Ordinance No. 2005-95, an ordinance amending various sections of Chapter 1138 (Senior Residence District) of the North Olmsted Zoning Code in order to clarify and update development regulations for the Senior Residence District. AUDIENC, E PARTICIPATI+QN Rick Meserini, 23069 Stoneybrook Drive, administrator at Wellington Place, commented on two items: parking and the integrating of primary care physicians' offices into the Senior Residence District. First, with regard to 1138.10, Parking Regulations, he made two recommendations based statistics from Wellington Place where they have 52 assisted living residents, and only one person has a car which does not leave the parking lot. They have 18 nursing home residents, and none of those residents are able to drive because of their physical limitations. It would be more appropriate to join assisted living and nursing home requirements and have a separate line item for independent living. This could be accomplished by removing the word "assisted" from 1138.10 (b) and adding it to 1138.10 (c) and include the phrase "of the largest shift" in 1138.10 (c) as it is in (b). Second, there has been a lot of discussion centering around primary care offices and incorporating them into the Senior Residence District as it relates to 1138.03 (b) under conditional uses. From a provider's standpoint, the ultimate goal of health care is wellness, better patient outcomes. The more closely they can bridge the communication gap between their facility/staff and primary care doctors, the better wellness becomes. Currently their assisted living residents are on 6 to 12 medications a day. They have multiple diagnoses. Physicians are unwilling to come to health care facilities because of the insurance liabilities. Providing this access and integrating it into a facility, would bridge this gap. Right now, residents have to either have a family member transport them to a physicians appointment or they go by ambulance. Often they put things off to the last minute so as not to burden their families or incur the cost of transportation. In those cases, the primary physician is contacted who gives instruction to take the patient to the emergency room. The patient often comes back from the ER with different medications, which then results in a trip to their primary care physician, and the "snowball" continues. From an access standpoint and to reduce unnecessary trips to the ER, it would be good to