The parking issue, you know, originally when they presented the parking issue, when it was supposed to be a nonprofit, the argument was that since most of the people will be from the neighborhood and they're going to come by bicycle, they knew that they're going to come by bicycle somehow. So they don't need more than that amount of— yeah.
So I don't know. I mean, first of all, I never bought that argument. If you go down the neighborhood, you know, that is the neighborhood that's— the families, I'll just say, the families that live in the neighborhood, Yeah. Yeah, you know, don't have one car, you know. And the cars that they have, thank God, are nice cars, you know, many of them.
They may be coming by bike, and the bike is on top of the roof of the car, but they're coming by car. So now that it's clear at this point that a minimum that it's a non— not a regular for-profit, the 28, you said, I don't remember, parking spaces is clearly not enough. I mean, I don't see how that could possibly be enough.
Would you like— Good question, by the way. Okay. So I'd be happy to answer it. I don't— we never made the allegation or the assertion that the bicycles would create any sort of transportation. But perhaps the assertion that has been made is that unfortunately parking lots for senior care facilities, adult care facilities are not well utilized. A lot of people don't come to visit is the sad reality.
I know we all have visions in our heads of being perfect children that would adore our parents and visit them daily and come every day on the way home from work with chicken soup. That's not the case. People do not come to visit, and the residents within the home have— at the point where they've given up their cars.
So most of the parking for these facilities is occupied by staff members and people coming to make service visits to the facility, not by the residents or the visitors. That's why the shuttle bus is created so that people who do live in the area who want to come, who might not have a car themselves, because the people that do come tend to be older, in their 70s and 80s, those are the people that come to visit their friends who are 70s and 80s in the homes, and they're not always driving as much.
But your point is well-heeded. I think the 28 spaces are self-park right now, if I'm not mistaken. We're actually 38. 38. 38. And we provide 55 bicycle spaces as well. And what? And 55 bicycle spots. Yeah. Yeah, but the bike parking is irrelevant for this conversation. Nobody's biking. No nursing home residents are biking out of the nursing home.
I would just suggest that the— is this place going to service, for example, somebody who has surgery and needs to, you know, a place to— It will have skilled nursing facility operations. It's really meant as a long-term care facility. The purpose of it is to create a home for people to come to, not a place for people to go get better.
If somebody has, say, hip surgery where they need to be somewhere for a year or something where there's extenuating circumstances, you know, but not for— my mother is having problems with her legs, she needs something for 2 months to coalesce. She wouldn't be there for 2 months. It's really meant for a year or longer, and really permanent residency is the goal.
Okay. I don't know how that is— and in any way, I don't know how or if that's guaranteed, because the place, the closest place that I know that they own, you know, is a different type of place than Maimonides Hospital. You know, they can use more space A place where people will come, maybe not to all the floors, but the 2 floors or whatever else, where people will come to, you know, to rest up or rehabilitate or whatever else.
And my inclination is that even though they are not saying it, that is what's going to happen, that they are going to take 2 floors or whatever, you know, and use it for that purpose. And, and certainly if that is what happens, then they need more cars. Yes. That, that is a, that's a, a horse of a different color, uh, entirely different story, uh, that you tend to get people of all different age brackets in there, all different, uh, all different abilities.
So, yes. You're, you're the expert. In your, in your documents, is there a way to guarantee that that's what it's going to be and not the, not No, the state authorizes the beds. Once the beds are authorized, then it's up to the operator to determine the use. So look, Mr. Plotnik, you're a very honest man, and I'm honest sometimes.
So we don't know. We don't know. We don't know what's going to happen. And I'm not suggesting that they intentionally are playing a game. But at the end of the day, if, if, uh, if, if this goes through, and as it goes through, you know, and they're, they're not selling the, you know, the apartments immediately, whatever else, certainly they're going to use, you know, the floors.
Well, nothing's sold, by the way. This is all skilled— it's all assisted living no matter what. That's it, you know. Uh, well, but if they don't have enough customers or clients, they're going to take— no matter what, they're going to take a few floors and rightfully, you know, use it for what I'm suggesting. I am hoping— And they certainly need cars.
We're hoping that we'll be able to get you a resolution in the next few weeks. Yeah.