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Item 6e Staff Report PLANNING COMP4ISSION August 12, 1981 SUBJECT: UP-81-20 APPLICANT: The Center PURPOSE: Application for a conditional use permit to allow the establishment and operation of an alcohol counseling and rehabilitation center at 228 Spring Street. The property is zoned C-C (Central Commercial) District. ATTACHt+D;NTS: 1. Location Map 2. Floor Plan 3. Data Sheet The Center (formerly Hot-Line) which offers counseling, education and crisis services, wishes to establish an alcohol, counseling, education and rehabilitation center, including residential services, in the house located at 228 Spring Street. Such a use requires a conditional use permit in the C-C District. Activities that would take place on the subject site would include residential care for up to six persons, information and education about alcohol and its effects on families and the community and a facility where anyone could drop in to chat or ask questions about alcohol related problems. The facility would be open and staffed 24-hours per day. There would be a minimum of two staff persons (one paid and one volunteer) on hand at all times. Residential service would be on a first come first serve basis for up to six persons. A trained alcohol specialist and trained com- munity volunteers would receive clients referred there by their families or other community agencies. The length of stay would average five days, however, three of the resident beds may be for longer periods of care. Regular family style meals would be served at the facility. The Center feels that a facility of this type is needed in the City. The Pleasanton Police Department has indicated that they are in support of such a facility and that it would be helpful to them in their work. Presently inebriated persons who have no one to care for them are booked and sent to the County jail at Santa Rita. 4vith the establishment of the alcohol center, many of these people could be referred to that facility and would not have to undergo the trauma of arrest.