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2012 April
PROJECTED TRAFFIC PATTERNS FOR A 150 UNIT SENIOR LIVING COMMUNITY (70 IL, 56 AL, 24 MC)
Resident Vehicles
Typically only 25%-35% of Independent Living (IL) residents have cars. Fewer than 10% of Assisted Living (AL) residents
have cars and AL residents usually do not drive on a regular basis. Memory Care (MC) residents do not have vehicles.
Staff Vehicles-numbers are approximate
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Staff traffic is highest between 1:55pm and 2:05pm. IMPORTANT NOTE: While this shift change involves 32-35 total staff
(half arriving & half departing), some dietary staff change 1 hour before shift changes, & some housekeeping staff change
1 hour after shift changes. Therefore the actual staff traffic is 25%-50% less than the total number of staff involved at shift
changes.
Guest Vehicles
Typically only 10% of our residents have a regular weekly visitor, so for 150 units, we could expect 15 guests throughout
the week (or just over 2 guests a day). There are more guests on weekends and on a few holidays throughout the year.
Parking Needs
Getting the correct parking ratio is important to the operation & marketing of our communities - too many spaces makes
the community look empty, isolated, & inactive, while too few obviously can cause frustration. In operating our many
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spaces per unit, which equates to 100 spaces, an appropriate ratio given the mix of unit types & levels of care provided at
this community. Using the high side of the typical numbers of resident, staff, & guest cars outlined above, we could expect
to have 25 IL resident cars, 6 AL resident cars, & around 40 staff cars at peak shift change (that reduces to 25 cars at all
other times), for a maximum total of 71 cars for a short while around 2pm. At its busiest, the parking still provides 29
spaces (or roughly 10 times the spaces needed) to easily accommodate occasional visits by family & friends.
Delivery Vehicles
We typically have 2 semi trucks (large-size trucks) of kitchen supplies a week (usually on Monday and Friday), 2 medium-
size trucks of produce and dairy a week (usually on Monday and Thursday), and 2 small-size trucks for laundry a week. We
have regular mail delivery, and UPS and FedEx deliveries are similar to a typical neighborhood.
Emergency Response Vehicles
The number of emergency response vehicle visits to our community is comparable to, if not slightly lower than, any typical
neighborhood. (We would see fewer law enforcement vehicles than a typical neighborhood would see.) The number of
emergency response vehicle visits can be lower than the number of visits in a typical neighborhood because our staff are
able to spot potential medical issues before they develop into emergencies. In such a situation, our staff can inform a
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receive any necessary care. If emergency response vehicles do visit our community, we ask that they turn off sirens as
they approach, as allowed by local codes.