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the Gerontology Department at SCSU . She thought I should talk to her and take some classes in <br /> this subject as it would help me understand housing for seniors. I talked to the head of the <br /> department and came away registered for fall classes for a minor in Gerontology. <br /> One of the classes I took this winter was "Aging and Housing <br /> Options for Seniors helped me the most. <br /> Continuing with our plan to build senior residences on the land, Victor Pacheco (a <br /> Landscape Architect) and I made several appointments with the city. Our development was <br /> approved about 10 years ago and we needed to see where the city stood with the plans we had <br /> for the development. Our land was designated a Planned Unit Developmeht(PUD) and was the <br /> last one in the city of Elk River. This gave us some freedom in doing what we wanted to do <br /> regarding the building of senior housing. After further study of the layout of the property, we <br /> discovered the property was broken up in two different plats, I could develop the three acre <br /> parcel to the east first . <br /> The city Building and Zoning Administrator was very enthusiastic about the project. <br /> The next step was deciding what type of senior housing to build there. The property is <br /> challenging, as it is a triangular parcel. I had my architect look into building a corporate group <br /> home. He gave me several sketches, but I figured we needed more rooms to make it financially <br /> feasible. <br /> For my class in Social Gerontology, I did some service work at Lakeview in Dassel, <br /> Minnesota. There I met Judy Berry, one of the owners of the property. She had two large <br /> home facilities. The Lakeview facility in Dassel has sixteen residents; I don't know how <br /> many were in the second home in Darwin. She had two kitchens that each served eight residents. <br /> 2 <br />