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Dayton commission advances zoning changes to limit concentration of group homes
Summary
After months of study and public input, the Dayton City Commission advanced a zoning-text amendment that would create separation rules, occupancy caps and new inspection requirements for licensed group homes; the ordinance received a first reading and commissioners asked staff for additional legal and comparative research before final action.
The Dayton City Commission on Tuesday advanced a zoning-text amendment aimed at reducing the concentration of licensed group homes in parts of the city, marking the measure for first reading while asking staff to return with additional legal analysis and comparisons to other municipalities.
The city’s zoning administrator, Kiersten French, said the proposal responds to a local pattern in which foster-care, addiction-recovery and developmental-disability residences have clustered in certain neighborhoods. The draft ordinance splits the current single “residential facility” definition into separate categories, proposes a 1,000-foot separation between group homes of any type, and places numeric caps on foster-care homes within defined land-use geographies. French told commissioners the city has an outsized…
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