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Grand Jury Findings — "Group Homes" <br />Responses to Findings <br />Can Be <br />Requires <br />City <br />Accomplished <br />City <br />Need <br />Finding <br />Position <br />Response to Finding <br />by Staff <br />Council <br />Budget <br />Completion <br />(1 or 2) <br />Administratively <br />Policy <br />Allocation <br />Date <br />(Y or N) <br />Direction <br />(Y or N) <br />(Y or N) <br />The legislative preemption imposed by the <br />State of California significantly hinders <br />local authorities from exercising control <br />over the timing, manner, and location of <br />group homes with fewer than six <br />occupants. <br />F7 <br />Several cities have created <br />2 <br />There is not enough information readily <br />N/A <br />N/A <br />N/A <br />N/A <br />an ordinance that requires <br />available to understand and take a <br />a ministerial permit or <br />position on the statement that <br />registration to operate a <br />"many ... cities do not enforce their [group <br />home] ordinances." However, a collective <br />group home, however <br />effort to understand these ordinances, the <br />many of these cities do not <br />reasons for which they were adopted, the <br />enforce their ordinances. <br />resources required to implement those <br />ordinances, and the community input <br />process would lead to a better assessment <br />of whether ordinances are being enforced <br />at the local level. <br />F8 <br />City and County officials <br />1 <br />The City agrees with this finding. Without <br />N/A <br />N/A <br />N/A <br />N/A <br />are deterred from <br />a certified Housing Element, the City is <br />regulating group homes by <br />limited in its ability to exercise local <br />California Housing and <br />zoning and regulate residential <br />Community <br />developments. <br />Development's housing <br />element approval process. <br />