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Neighbors push back on proposed residential care home zoning changes and ask for more notice and safety review
Summary
Multiple residents urged Placer County to reconsider draft zoning amendments affecting residential care homes and minor use permits, warning the changes could remove Planning Commission review and public notice and lead to higher concentrations of residents in rural neighborhoods.
At the start of its first 2026 meeting, the Placer County Planning Commission heard extensive public comment on draft zoning text amendments related to residential care homes and emergency shelters.
Residents from Bald Hill and other rural neighborhoods said the draft language would reduce opportunities for public input and allow permitting pathways that could result in larger group homes or campus-style concentrations of people. Laurie Peltz Lewis told the commission the draft ordinance appears to…
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