Planning Commission Agenda and Packet 2016 02 11

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Planning Commission Meeting Minutes January 14, 2016 Page 7 of 14 Elicia Bunch, Centennial Peaks Hospital, 2255 S. 88th Street, Louisville, CO Hal Hudson, Director of Facilities, 100 Health Park Drive, Louisville, CO Stacey Root presents from Power Point. We want to build away from the Coal Creek neighborhood and toward Avista. We also want to keep the addition expansion completely within the existing fence line. We were able to make that happen. The perceived enlargement of the hospital from the neighborhood's perspective is that the impact should be minimal. The fence itself will step out approximately 15'. The materials proposed are straight forward stucco and brick, which came as a suggestion from Planning Staff. They suggested we not match the existing hospital which has red brick and appears foreboding. We were interested in the idea of tying back to the Avista campus with similar materials happening across 88th Street. This building is clearly not about the architecture. It sits entirely behind a privacy fence. Root presents a slide of a copy of the plat filed in Louisville in 1998. The proposed expansion to the hospital in 1998 is in the exact location we are proposing tonight. It is true that the LMC requires 3 spaces per bed at 156 spaces total. Currently inside the hospital, there are 3000 sf of Outpatient service, which can account for parking overflow to Avista and a shortage of parking. Using the design handbook used in healthcare, their code calls for 202 parking spaces. We are proposing 180 spaces because it is both defensible and would meet the needs of the hospital. We are maintaining over 57% open space. We are carving some parking spaces out of the existing site. Some spaces are striped inefficiently or not at all, so we will re- stripe and make them conforming spaces. We are trying to minimize area disruption to gain spaces. Addressing the construction logistics, the intent is that no construction traffic will be happening on Saint Andrews Lane. We have worked an agreement with Avista for construction parking to occur on their site. We held a neighborhood meeting on January 6, 2016 with mailers going out on December 22, 2015. It was held in the hospital gym. We wanted to make all the homes to the north sitting outside the 500' notification radius aware of the project. We had only three attendees and we were shocked. There were 25 people from the hospital team present to explain why we hope for this expansion. The three attendees were curious about what the hospital does. We answered a lot of questions which was great, and we had way too many cheeseburgers. Elicia Bunch speaks. We have been in the area for about 27 years, since 1988. We are the only freestanding psychiatric hospital in Boulder County. We are on land leased from Avista Adventist Hospital and have a strong partnership with them. We assist them with their behavior health needs and try to find appropriate services for patients in the hospital in need of behavioral health care. We have multiple community partnerships which is a big part of our reach in terms of partnering with various organizations throughout the community. We know that follow -up care and connection with additional service providers will have a strong impact on how our patients do once they are discharged back into the community. We provide complimentary care assessments which are behavioral health assessments for folks in the community who may need some kind of care. We are able, because of our relationships with providers in the community, to connect folks with services. We get quite a few calls, approximately 1000 calls per month, to our call center requesting assistance, referrals, or some kind of assessment to help assist folks with behavioral health needs. Monarch High School is across the road from us and we have a strong partnership with them. Bunch shows a slide that references one of those partnerships where we sponsor classroom- focused on the intent of suicide prevention. We have frequent communications with their counselors and their principal. Some of the people at our community meeting were surprised to hear that Colorado ranks 50th in the USA for the number of beds per capita. There is a huge need for behavioral health beds in this state. Colorado is 9th in suicide per capita rate. We served over 3000 patients in the last year. There is a demand for behavioral services and are frequently in a position of not being able to provide services for folks that need it. Our focus is on servicing adolescents because we know that in order for adolescents to experience success in their discharge plan and treatment follow -up, they must