SHARED HOUSING FACILITY.
(1) Any building or portion thereof which is designed and used exclusively for sole, bona fide and permanent residential purpose as a certified or licensed adult care facility or residential facility as further defined below.
A. ADULT FAMILY HOME.
A facility that is licensed by the state’s Department of Health to provide accommodations for not more than five adults and to provide personal care services to these resident adults (typically elderly). Such services may include assistance in daily living activities and self-administration of medicine and preparation of special diets.
B. ADULT GROUP HOME.
A facility that is licensed by the state’s Department of Health to provide accommodations for six to not more than 16 adults and to provide personal care services to these resident adults (typically elderly). Such services may include assistance in daily living activities and self-administration of medicine, and preparation of special diets.
C. RESIDENTIAL FACILITY FAMILY HOUSE.
A facility licensed by the state’s Department of Mental Health to provide accommodations for not more than eight mentally retarded or developmentally disabled persons and to provide personal care, supervision, habilitation services and mental health services in a family setting.
D. RESIDENTIAL FACILITY GROUP HOME.
A facility licensed by the state’s Department of Mental Health to provided accommodations for nine to not more than 16 mentally retarded or developmentally disabled persons and to provide personal care, supervision, habilitation services and mental health services in a family setting.
(2) The term
SHARED HOUSING FACILITY
does not include halfway house, quarterway house, three quarterway house or any other housing facility serving as an alternative to incarceration, nursing home, rest home, boarding house, rooming house, lodging house, residential treatment home/center, special care home, or any other similar building or use of a building.
(Ord. 94-08, passed 12-2-2008)