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Centerfield City Zoning Code

10.130 Supplemental

Regulations

10.130.010 Group Homes For Disabled/Handicapped Persons

Residential facilities for disabled/handicapped persons shall be located and maintained in accordance with the following standards and conditions:

  1. The structure conforms to all applicable building, safety and health requirements.
  2. The structure is capable of use for the purpose without structural or landscaped alterations that would change the residential character of the structure.
  3. The structure shall contain not more than eight (8) persons, excluding the house family.
  4. No residential facility for handicapped/disabled persons shall be established or maintained within three-fourths (3/4) of a mile of another existing dwelling occupied as a residential facility for handicapped/disabled persons.
  5. The operator of the facility shall provide adequate off street parking space.
  6. The facility is properly licensed by the Utah Department of Human Services or the Utah Department of Health as required by state law. The continued validity of such license is a condition of permission to operate the facility in the city.
  7. The operator of the facility may establish a community advisory committee through which complaints and concerns of neighbors may be addressed.
  8. No person who is being treated for alcoholism, drug abuse, sexual offenses or is violent shall be housed in the structure. Placement in the structure shall not be part of or in lieu of confinement, rehabilitation, or treatment in a custodial or correctional institution.
  9. The use of the structure as a residential facility for handicapped/disabled persons is nontransferable and shall automatically terminate at such time as there is any change in the character of the persons occupying the structure, it becomes devoted to a use other than that for which is was originally approved, or at such time as the structure or use fails to comply with applicable health, safety and building codes or the terms of this section.

HISTORY

Adopted by Ord. 2006-1 on 1/19/2006

Renumbered by Ord. 2015-1 on 10/21/2015

Amended 12/28/2023