From
Steve Alcorn
Title
Ordinance providing for a180-day moratorium on permitting of group homes or boarding homes
Presenter
Donald Postell, City Attorney
Recommended Action
Approve
Analysis
The Legislature has allowed cities or counties to regulate boarding houses, which include facilities that furnish lodging to three or more persons with disabilities or elderly persons, who are unrelated to the owner of the establishment by blood or marriage and that provide services such as meals, housework, money management, and assistance with medication, but which do not provided personal care services to those persons. There are also facilities regulated by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission or other state agencies, which may also provide medical care services, but which have different requirements and levels of governmental supervision. Several of these establishments have currently located in close proximity to each other, and that action has resulted in complaints from neighbors concerning traffic, noise or other issues, emergency services provisions, or dimuition of property values. While the City cannot exclude such uses from residential neighborhoods, a reduction or avoidance of concentrated uses may reduce problems in the community. A six month moratorium to review the situation and see what other cities do would be beneficial. The proposed moratorium will merely maintain the status quo.
Financial Consideration
There should be no financial impact because of a moratorium.
Body
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF GRAND PRAIRIE, TEXAS, PROVIDING FOR A MORATORIUM ON THE PERMITTING OF GROUP OR SIMILAR HOMES INTO RESIDENTIAL AREAS UNTIL SUCH TIME AS A STUDY MAY BE DONE CONCERNING SPACING OR DISTANCING RESTRICTIONS; PROVIDING FOR A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; PROVIDING A REPEALER CLAUSE; AND DECLARING AN EFFECTIVE DATE THEREOF
WHEREAS, there have recently been several establishments that provide for services for unrelated persons who live in such ...
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