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Fulshear planning panel recommends zoning changes to define and conditionally regulate group homes and residential care facilities
Summary
The Planning & Zoning Commission recommended approval of Ordinance No. 20 25-15 15 to add state-aligned definitions for group homes and residential care facilities, require conditional-use permitting and a 2,500-foot separation standard, while staff warned changes are legally complex because of federal and state protections.
The City of Fulshear Planning & Zoning Commission on Dec. 5 recommended that the city council adopt Ordinance No. 20 25-15 15, a text amendment to Chapter 28 of the coordinated development ordinance that creates clearer, state-aligned definitions and conditional-use rules for personal care homes, group homes, community homes and larger residential care institutions.
Staff told commissioners the primary purpose is definitional clarity and permitting going forward, not to shut down existing operations. The ordinance would treat personal care homes (three or fewer residents), group homes (generally seven to 15) and community homes (small facilities serving people with disabilities) as residential uses that are allowed in certain residential districts only as conditional uses; residential care institutions of 16 or more…
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