HomeMy WebLinkAboutMACALLISTER RESIDENTIAL GROUP HOME, 1214 CATALPA PL. - GROUP HOME REVIEW - 31-01 - SUBMITTAL DOCUMENTS - ROUND 1 - PROJECT NARRATIVEThursday, August 23, 2001
Chairman & Members of the Board of Planning & Zoning
for the City of Fort Collins
P. O Box 580
Fort Collins, CO 80522
Re: Proposed group home for be located on Lot 69,
The Ponds at Overland Trail, 2nd Filing
Dear Chairman & Members of the Board of Planning & Zoning:
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Our desires and intentions are the following: To build a four bedroom ranch house,
single family dwelling, to be our home. To make our home available to six to eight elderly
persons, room and board and personal services, protective oversight, and social care, due to
impaired capacity to live independently. All of the expected residents of our home will be there,
not just because of age, but because each suffers from one or more disabilities or impairments
which have resulted in their inability to take care of themselves. Examples of the impairments
might include one or more of the following: caring for one's self, performing manual tasks,
walking, seeing, speaking, breathing, and learning. Because of these impairments, we believe
each resident meets the definition of a person with a handicap under the Federal Fair Housing
Act and a person with a disability under the Colorado Fair Housing Act. We will be providing,
daily care to these areas such as bathing, dressing, activities, social care, meals, laundry,
cleaning, etc.
This home will be licensed by the State of Colorado and will abide by the rules and
regulations for personal care boarding homes under the definition of Chapter VII of the Rules
and Regulations for Personal Care Boarding Homes. .
It is truly our desire to bring honor and dignity to our elderly people who are not yet in
need of extensive 24 hour nursing care but who need assistance in their daily lives because of
their impairment to live independently. We believe a quality of life can be achieved in this
smaller home setting with a family environment which we desire to provide for the elderly
people with handicaps.
We ask that you approve our application in keeping with the intention of the Federal and
Colorado Fair Housing Acts that the application of zoning ordinances reasonable accommodate
people with disabilities so that they can live in a residential neighborhood.
Sincerely,
Douglas P. & PatriciErL. Macallister