A "group home" is a dwelling shared by no more than eight handicapped persons, plus the required number of resident staff, who live together as a single housekeeping unit and in a long-term, family-like environment in which staff persons provide care, education and participation in community activities for the residents with the primary goal of enabling the resident to live as independently as possible in order to reach their maximum potential. Group home shall not include communicable diseases, alcoholism or drug treatment center, work release facilities for convicts or ex-convicts or other housing facilities serving as an alternative to incarceration which poses a direct threat to the health and safety of others.
In addition, the following restrictions will be applied:
(a) The conditional use of a group home must be in accordance with the Codified Ordinances of the City of Bedford, the Ohio Revised Code, the Ohio Building Code or the Residential Code of Ohio as it would pertain to this use as they currently state, including any subsequent amendment thereto.
(b) There will be no sign with the name of the home/business posted on site, nor will the address of the home be publicized in marketing materials, online or otherwise.
(c) The number of residents cars parked on site will be limited to the amount governed by the City of Bedford ordinances.
(d) Should the property be sold or transferred to a new owner or business, the conditional use of the group home will not run with the land and the use will expire. The purchaser will be required to apply for a new conditional use prior to transfer if they intend to operate as a group home.
(Ord. 9497-17. Passed 7-3-17.)