Group homes and residential care in Santa Ana

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Parking	Keep garages and driveways free; each resident and manager may park only one vehicle, at home or within 500 feet. Applies: Group homes needing a Group Home Special Use Permit (licensed care facilities for 6 or fewer are exempt). § 41-2402 · code text All garage and driveway spaces associated with the dwelling unit shall, at all times, be available for the parking of vehicles, unless modified through the construction of an accessory dwelling unit or junior accessory dwelling unit in compliance with all applicable standards. Residents and the house manager may each only store or park a single vehicle
Homes for 7 or more	Valid Operator's Permit required. Applies: Group home with 7 or more occupants. § 8-3600 · code text It is unlawful for any person to operate, or to permit any person to operate a group home with seven (7) or more occupants on any property located in the city without a valid permit issued for that group home pursuant to the provision of this article.
Homes for 6 or fewer	Exempt from this section; considered a residential use and a single-family dwelling. Applies: Residential care facility serving 6 or fewer persons. § 41-2401 · code text a residential care facility serving six (6) or fewer persons is exempt from this section, except that such facilities must comply with Section 41-2402(b)(15)(iii); and is considered a residential use of property and a single-family dwelling. Group Home Special Use Permit required. Applies: Group home with 6 or fewer occupants that is not a licensed residential care facility (licensed facilities for 6 or fewer are exempt). § 41-2401 · code text A Group Home Special Use Permit issued in accordance with Section 41-2402 of this chapter, if the group home has six (6) or fewer occupants
Distance between homes	A group home must be at least 650 feet from another group home. Applies: Closest property lines; exempt: licensed facilities of 6 or fewer, and other homes of 6 or fewer in A1, RE or R1 zones unless sober-living. § 41-2402 · code text No group home may be established or operated on any lot that is within six hundred fifty (650) feet, as measured from the closest property lines, from another group home.
Where allowed	Small homes (6 or fewer): A1, RE, R1, R2, R3, R4 and SDs/SPs, with a Group Home Special Use Permit. Applies: Large (7 or more): conditional use permit in R2-R4 and SDs/SPs, not A1, RE, R1. In SDs/SPs, small homes need single-family principally permitted. § 41-2401 · code text Permitted (P) where single-family residential is a principally permitted use; CUP is required where multiple-family residential use is a principally permitted use; in zones where both single- and multiple-family use are principally permitted uses, a CUP shall be required.

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Santa Ana's code: Keep garages and driveways free; each resident and manager may park only one vehicle, at home or within 500 feet. (Group homes needing a Group Home Special Use Permit (licensed care facilities for 6 or fewer are exempt).) (§ 41-2402); Valid Operator's Permit required. (Group home with 7 or more occupants.) (§ 8-3600).

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