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Supportive Housing - Group Homes - Land Use Bylaw Review
Presented by: Jean Ehlers, Manager, Development Services
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RECOMMENDATION(S)
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1. Council grant an extension to enable more research be undertaken and brought back to Council with additional recommendations no later than Q2 2019.
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PURPOSE OF REPORT
The purpose of the report is to address the July 10, 2017 motion regarding supportive housing, as well as to address the separation distance between group homes.
COUNCIL DIRECTION
On August 28, 2017, Council approved Bylaw 29/2017 pertaining to the definition and regulation of group homes as a permitted use.
On July 10, 2017, the following motion was passed:
That Council direct Administration to conduct a full review of the Land Use Bylaw as it pertains to Supportive Housing (Group Homes) and bring forward amendments to Land Use Bylaw 9/2005 by the end of Q2 2018 to better define, improve, categorize, and provide provisions for Supportive Housing (Group Homes) use types based on best practices, and provincial regulations.
On December 5, 2016, Council passed the following motion:
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That Administration propose for Council’s consideration by August 31, 2017, all related Bylaw and Policy Amendments that would result in creating a group home category that is a permitted use.
BACKGROUND AND DISCUSSION
For a group home to be established in the City, they need provincial approval, as well as a development permit, and business license. Under the previous LUB, Administration received appeals of discretionary (rather than permitted) development permits for group homes. Those development permits were ultimately issued by the Subdivision & Development Appeal Board (SDAB). The process of taking group homes to the SDAB was in part an impetus for the LUB amendments approved in August 2017. Within the current LUB, group homes are now a permitted use in the Low Density R1 and Low Density R2 Resid...
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