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Murrieta council introduces and amends ordinance to regulate sober living homes; sets six‑month compliance goal
Summary
After a lengthy public hearing with residents raising safety, parking and proximity concerns about unlicensed recovery homes, Murrieta council introduced a municipal code amendment to regulate sober living homes and amended staff’s one‑year compliance window to require six months where feasible (with up-to-one-year extensions for extenuating circumstances); motion passed unanimously 4–0.
Murrieta — The Murrieta City Council on Sept. 2 introduced an ordinance to revise Title 16 of the Murrieta Municipal Code to establish standards for sober living homes — unlicensed recovery residences that are not regulated by the state Department of Health Care Services — and amended the staff proposal to accelerate the compliance timeline for existing unlicensed homes.
Planning staff (identified in the transcript as Mr. Shantaransu) framed the draft ordinance as modeled on provisions upheld in recent litigation (Ohio House v. City of Costa Mesa) that allowed local governments to adopt spacing, permitting and operational requirements for certain group homes while remaining consistent with federal and state fair-housing protections. Staff said the draft would require registration/use…
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