Navigation Center & Pallet Shelters Special Use Permit Approved by GP City Council
The Mobile Integrative Navigation Team, known as MINT, applied to the City for a special use permit to operate a resource center and place pallet shelters at 218 Redwood Highway and was approved unanimously.
This single lot is located the General Commercial zoning district and is under private ownership of Thomas Parker. The location known to Grants Pass residents as Parker’s Place. MINT has acquired a one-year lease on the property and an agreement to continue in the location eventually gaining ownership of the location.
Some improvements have already been accomplished to the building to meet state and city requirements. The north building on the site would serve as the navigation center including support services to the unsheltered while the property at the rear of the building would be the site for what is projected to be 15 pallet shelters.
According to MINT, those shelters would be reserved for the elderly or infirm that living in a park or on public property would create an unhealthy and undue hardship.
MINT has met all required criteria for such a facility including security concerns.
