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Board of Zoning Appeals -December 18, 2008 <br />MR. SASSANO: Can I ask you a quick question? Where are the four extra parking spaces. I'm sorry I don't <br />see them. <br />MR. SPIER: Within the drive. Each of the units have a two car garage on the first floor and just right outside <br />in the driveways, there will be two spots. <br />MR. SASSANO: Okay so you're not referring to four designated spots? <br />MR. SPIER: No. <br />MR. BILL MCCARTHY: I'm a Remax 100 Realtor and today I am representing the Clark Street Jesuit <br />community at the request of Father Paul Campbell. Father Campbell approached me two or three months ago <br />with the idea that he wanted to consolidate the Jesuit community that has always existed at Notre Dame. <br />Presently there are seven Jesuit priests that are spread out throughout St. Joe County. Two are living in the <br />dorms at Notre Dame and five that live in a home up in the Granger area. They have a new student coming in <br />next year which will bring us to a total of eight. Father Paul is actually the new administrator of the Jesuits. <br />He's headquartered in Chicago but he is actually like, you would call it the regional manager, that would <br />encompass the Notre Dame Jesuits. The Jesuits have a long tradition of having personnel or staff at Notre <br />Dame and I think I need to point out that these are not typical college students. I have met all of the ones that <br />will be residing here and they are in ages from 20 to 45. They're at Notre Dame studying, technically making <br />them students but they are not typical students. <br />MR. SASSANO: Are they all ordained priests? <br />MR. MCCARTHY: The two students are not. ~ Some of the older ones are. The two that are in the dorms are <br />not ordained yet. They are seminary students. Again what Father Paul, he approached me with this that he <br />wants them to live together as a family. His charge forme was to find a residence within walking to Notre <br />Dame to eliminate the need for each of the students to have cars. We toured a variety of properties within, <br />again another one of my perimeters was a mile from campus, I identified multiple sites that might work and <br />Father Paul settled on the Stadium Village project. Once we settled on that of course the next object again since <br />this is technically not within the law, which is why we're here seeking a Special Exception for I can't think of <br />any better phrase for it than anon-traditional family. And I think that ... <br />MR. SASSANO: Who will own the building? <br />MR. MCCARTHY: The Jesuits. <br />MR. SASSANO: So you're selling the property to them? <br />MR. MCCARTHY: I'm selling the property to the Jesuits and they will retain title. They're viewing it as a <br />long_term.hold. The hold to their community there much as the Opus Day brothers do on south Notre Dame <br />Ave. where there's 15 students and residents. There will not be any type of commercial development there. <br />This is just viewed as lodging. And frankly again they're spacing is very important to them. They want one <br />bedroom for each student. And the privacy issue, there will not be, obviously with this type of resident, it's not <br />a typical student housing issue. <br />3 <br />