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Council debates transitional-housing designation as staff present data on concentration of family care homes
Summary
Planning staff presented a proposed transitional-housing use and asked council direction on separation distances and permissible zoning districts. Police and planning staff described a high per-capita concentration of licensed family care homes and identified public-safety workload implications; council asked staff to return with a map and further analysis.
Jamie Lawson, Executive Director of Planning and Development Services, introduced a proposal to add a transitional-housing use to the Unified Development Ordinance and reviewed how it differs from boarding homes, family care homes, group homes and halfway homes.
Staff highlighted that, as drafted, the transitional-housing use would be a new land-use category with no cap on occupancy in the draft language and would initially have proposed separation-distance standards (consistent with other family-care categories) pending…
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