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<br />C-22 | City of Pleasanton Housing Constraints <br />provide permanent living accommodations and 24 hour primarily non-medical care and <br />supervision for persons in need of personal services, supervision, protection, or assistance for <br />sustaining the activities of daily living. It includes hospices, nursing homes, convalescent facilities, <br />and group homes for minors, persons with disabilities, and people in recovery from alcohol or <br />drug addictions. The use of property as a licensed residential care facility for the care of six or <br />fewer persons must be considered a residential use that is permitted in all residential zoning <br />districts. No local agency can impose stricter zoning or building and safety standards on these <br />homes than otherwise required for homes in the same district. <br />The City allows group homes with six or fewer individuals by right, but Program 5.6 will result in <br />modifications to these requirements to comply with state law (see Transitional and Supportive <br />Housing, above) and explicitly allow group homes outside of transitional and supportive housing. <br />Also under Program 5.6, the City will allow all group homes, including those with seven or more <br />individuals, without discretionary review (i.e., subject only to objective standards). There are no <br />spacing requirements or other standards to limit the establishment of group homes. Also, the City <br />defines “family” to include unrelated individuals living as a housekeeping unit; however, family is <br />also described as relation by blood or marriage (Municipal Code 18.08.167: “Family” means an <br />individual or two or more persons who are related by blood or marriage; or otherwise live together <br />in a dwelling unit). To ensure a broad definition of family, the City will amend the definition of <br />“family” to remove the description of relation by blood or marriage (Program 5.6). To further <br />facilitate these types of housing, the City has reduced the number of parking spaces for assisted <br />living and other special needs housing projects through the PUD process, where it is shown that <br />the demand for the required parking does not exist. Furthermore, the Zoning Administrator has <br />the authority to determine the number of parking spaces for uses not specified in the Zoning <br />Ordinance. <br />The City ensures that new housing developments comply with California building standards (Title <br />24 of the California Code of Regulations and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)) and <br />federal requirements for accessibility. Additionally, it is the City’s practice to require universal <br />design /enhanced accessibility features 3 , such as roll-in showers, in all required adaptable <br />dwelling units, in multi-family projects of more than 15 units, as a condition of project approval. <br />Reasonable Accommodation <br />Both the federal Fair Housing Act and the California Fair Employment and Housing Act direct local <br />governments to make reasonable accommodations (i.e., modifications or exceptions) in their <br />zoning laws and other land use regulations when such accommodations may be necessary to <br />afford disabled persons an equal opportunity to use and enjoy a dwelling. For example, it may be <br /> <br /> <br />3 Universal design refers to building in a way that makes it accessible to everyone. For example, levers instead of knobs <br />on doors make them easier to open