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ATTORNEY COLLINS POINTED OUT THAT THE DEFINITION OF NURSING HOMES IN OUR ZONING ORDINANCE INCLUDES RETIREMENT CENTERS AND IF THE PROPOSED ORDINANCE IS ADOPTED, SOMEONE COULD COME IN AND REQUEST A RETIREMENT CENTER IN C -IA AND WE COULD NOT REFUSE IT. CHAIRMAN WODTKE ASKED IF WE COULD EXCLUDE RETIREMENT CENTERS IN OUR MOTION, AND THE ATTORNEY STATED THE ONLY WAY TO EXCLUDE THEM WOULD BE TO CHANGE THE DEFINITION IN OUR ZONING ORDINANCE. HE SUGGESTED THAT THE BOARD INSTRUCT THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT TO COME UP WITH A NEW DEFINITION FOR NURSING HOMES WHICH WILL EXCLUDE RETIREMENT CENTERS. DISCUSSION CONTINUED AND COMMISSIONER LYONS FELT WE ARE IN A PERFECTLY SAFE POSITION TO GIVE THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT TIME TO CHANGE THE DEFINITION SINCE "TO GET ANOTHER CERTIFICATE OF DEED FOR THIS COUNTY IN THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE WOULD BE DIFFICULT OR IMPOSSIBLE. ATTORNEY COLLINS DISAGREED BECAUSE SOMEONE COULD COME IN WITH A RETIREMENT PROJECT THAT WOULD COME UNDER THE DEFINITION OF NURSING HOME THAT IS BEING'ALLOWED IN THE C -IA AREA, BUT HE DID AGREE THAT CHANCES ARE THAT THERE IS LITTLE OR NO RISK INVOLVED UNTIL WE CAN REDEFINE. DISCUSSION ENSUED AS TO SETTING ASIDE THE ACTUAL ADOPTION OF THE ORDINANCE UNTIL WE CAN ADOPT THE NEW DEFINYTIDN*." COMMISSIONER Loy INQUIRED ABOUT THE TIME SCHEDULE DESIRED BY ATTORNEY COOKSEY, AND HE STATED THEIR CERTIFICATE OF MEED IS GOOD UNTIL NEXT .DUNE BUT THEY NEED AS MUCH LEEWAY AS POSSIBLE. IN FURTHER DISCUSSION, IT WAS FELT A PUBLIC HEARING ON RE- WORDING THE DEFINITION IN THE ZONING ORDINANCE COULD BE HELD ON AUGUST 8TH AND THE SUBSEQUENT ORDINANCE COULD BEC"OME EFFECTIVE AUGUST 9TH, COMMISSIONER LYONS WITHDREW HIS PREVIOUS MOTION TO REWORD SAME, AND COMMISSIONER SIEBERT {^WITHDREW HIS SECOND. ON MOTION BY COMMISSIONER LYONS, SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER SIEBERT, THE BOARD UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED ORDINANCE 79-I8 ADDING NURSING HOMES AS A SPECIAL EXCEPTION UNDER C -IA, SAID ORDINANCE TO BECOME EFFECTIVE AUGUST 9, 1979. 30 J U L 51979 BOOK 41PAGE gT