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DEC D BOOK 91 FAGF 302 <br />SECTION 5: GROUP HOMES IN MOBILE HOME DISTRICTS <br />Planning Director Stan Boling made the following presentation: <br />5. SECTION 5: GROUP HOMES IN MOBILE HOME DISTRICTS <br />Recently, it has come to planning staff's attention that a group <br />home use (the Palm Gardens Children's Home) exists on property <br />zoned RMH-8 (Residential Mobile Home up to 8 units/acre). Although <br />most properties zoned RMH-6 and RMH-8 are mobile home parks, some <br />areas zoned RMH-8, such as the Palm Gardens Subdivision, may <br />contain institutional uses such as group homes. Although the RMH-6 <br />and RMH-8 district regulations currently allow other institutional <br />uses such as child care facilities and foster homes, group homes <br />are not specifically listed as allowable uses in the RMH-6 and RMH- <br />8 districts_. In planning staff's opinion, group home uses should <br />be allowed ih-the RMH-6 and RMH-8 districts, and should be treated <br />the same as group home uses in the RM -6 and RM -8 multi -family <br />districts. <br />Section 5A and 5B of the proposed amendments would establish group <br />homes as allowable uses in the RMH-6 and RMH-8 districts, in the <br />same manner as the RM -6 and RM -8 districts allow group homes. All <br />existing group home specific land use criteria would apply (see <br />attachment #11). <br />Section 5C of the proposed amendments would correct a previous <br />oversight, where the Chapter 971 multi -family district use table <br />was not made to properly reflect the Chapter 911 allowances for <br />residential centers and ACLFs in the RM -31 RM -4, and RM -6 zoning <br />districts. The proposed amendment would make this correction. <br />Planning staff and the PSAC both recommend that the Board of County <br />Commissioners adopt the proposed amendment, as presented. On a 4-0 <br />vote, the Planning and Zoning Commission recommended adoption of <br />the proposed amendment. <br />The Vice Chairman opened the public hearing and asked if <br />anyone wished to be heard in this matter. There being none, he <br />closed the public hearing. <br />The Vice Chairman announced that the consensus of the Board <br />was to follow staff's recommendation. <br />30 <br />_I <br />