PZ-25-00201: Group Living Zoning Code Text Amendment - modify Zoning Code provisions in Division 10-20.40 Permits and Approvals to update exemptions for Emergency Facilities and Shelters; Division 10-20.110 Enforcement to add advertisements as prima facie evidence of a violation; Division 10-40.30 Non Transect Zones to add new group living land uses including Assisted Living Home and Center, Boarding House, and Group Residential Home and Center to Tables 10-40.30.030.B: Residential Zones – Allowed Uses, Table 10-40.30.040.B: Commercial Zones – Allowed Uses, and Table 10-40.30.060.B: Public and Open Space Zones – Allowed Uses; Division 10-40.40 Transect Zones to update the allowed uses tables for T2, T3N.1, T3N.2, T4N.1, T4N.2, T5 and T6 to add new group living land uses identified above; Division 10-50.80 Parking Standards to add requirements for new group living land uses; and Division 10-80.20 Definitions of Specialized Terms, Phrases, and Building Functions to add definitions for Assisting Living Center, Assisted Living Home, Boarding House, Group Residential Center, Group Residential Home, modify the definition of Family and Nursing Home and delete the definitions for Congregate Care Facility, Group Home, Institutional Residential, Rooming and Boarding Facility, Sheltered Care Home, and Short Term Housing. 

The purpose of the work session is for staff to present an overview of the proposed amendments, to allow interested residents to provide their ideas, suggestions, and concerns, and for the Commission to ask questions, seek clarification, and discuss the amendments, as well as offer alternate suggestions and ideas. The Commission will take no action at this work session. After the work session, staff will revise the proposed amendments as necessary. The amendments will then be presented to the Commission at a public hearing for consideration and action.

The proposed amendment includes several modifications to residential land uses currently identified as Institutional Residential in the zoning code.  The purpose of this amendment is to update existing land use descriptions and definitions as well as comply with Senate Bill 1473 which requires the City to allow an Assisted Living Home with 10 or fewer residents.