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City staff recommends moratorium on enforcing group‑living occupancy rules while state law and local standards are clarified
Summary
Staff advised council to adopt a temporary moratorium on enforcing numerical occupancy limits in the city code for group-living facilities so staff can rewrite local definitions and explore health-and-safety standards; the moratorium is slated for public hearing and possible vote at the next regular meeting.
City staff recommended a temporary moratorium on enforcing portions of the municipal code that regulate group‑living occupancy counts so the city can align local rules with a recent state law and, in parallel, evaluate local health-and-safety standards.
The item stems from House Bill 24-107 (referenced during the workshop as the statute that bars local governments from limiting how many people may live together based on familial relationship). Mike framed the issue: the state law “does not allow us to regulate group homes based on a quantity of people,” and the city’s current code contains multiple categories and numerical thresholds that are no longer compatible with that statute.
Nikki, identified as a planning manager, summarized…
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