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Fountain Valley reports decline in operating group/sober-living homes after ordinance; dozens remain under review
Summary
Nine months after adopting a group-home/sober-living ordinance, city staff reported 12 permits issued from 16 original applications, 13 additional applications pending, 16 properties sent to the city attorney for abatement and an estimated 57———to——69 operating group/sober-living homes; staff described the enforcement and citation process.
Deputy City Manager Omar Deboi updated the council on enforcement of the city's group-home and sober-living ordinance adopted earlier this year. "Since the passage, we have 31 home that is no longer operating," he told the council, describing a roughly 30-percent reduction in suspected operations since the ordinance took effect.
Staff detailed the enforcement workflow: complaints or reports trigger verification by code enforcement, followed by notification and…
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