Camarillo Municipal Code Ch. 19.53 Emergency Shelters

Emergency shelters must be provided in accordance with the following standards:

A. Management Plan. The emergency shelter provider must submit to the director a written management plan, including as applicable, provisions for staff training, neighborhood outreach, security, screening of residents to insure compatibility with services provided at the facility, and training, counseling, and treatment programs for residents.

B. Waiting area. If the intake of clients occurs on-site there must be an on-site client intake and waiting area in a location not adjacent to the public right-of-way, that is fully screened from public view, and provides consideration for weather events including shade and rain cover. The intake and waiting area must be suitably sized to prevent queuing in the public right-of-way or within any parking lot, but may not exceed four hundred square feet.

C. Maximum Number of Persons/Beds. The facility may not contain more than forty beds or serve more than forty homeless persons at any one time.

D. Lighting. Exterior lighting is permitted subject to the procedures and regulations of Chapter 19.47 of this code.

E. Laundry Facilities. The facility may provide laundry facilities adequate for the number of residents.

F. Common Facilities. The facility may provide one or more of the following specific common facilities for the exclusive use of the residents.

1. Central cooking and dining room;

2. Recreation room.

G. Security. Parking facilities must be designed to provide security for residents, visitors and employees during all hours that the emergency shelter is in operation.

H. On-site Parking. On-site parking is subject to the requirements set forth in Chapter 19.44 of this code, provided that the standards do not require more parking for emergency shelters than other residential or commercial uses within the same zone.

I. Maximum Stay. No person(s) may stay within an emergency shelter for more than thirty days from the date of their acceptance into the emergency shelter.

J. Concentration of Uses. No more than one facility is permitted within a radius of three hundred feet from another emergency shelter.

(Ord. No. 2008, § 4(Exh. A), 4-12-2023)