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Livonia council, city attorney explain limits on banning adult foster care homes after resident complaints
Summary
Residents urged the council to restrict adult care homes; the city attorney said state law treats adult foster care as residential use and local zoning cannot ban them.
Residents at Thursday’s Livonia City Council meeting urged the city to limit adult foster care and adult care homes in residential neighborhoods; council members and the city attorney responded that state law constrains local regulation.
Resident Ellen Dorman told the council she was “tired of lip service” and said multiple adult care homes had opened near her home and that she believed they were harming neighborhood integrity. “I now have three adult…
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