HomeMy WebLinkAbout2008-8 - Commitee on Residential OccupanciesRESOLUTION NO. 2008- 8
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH
SUNSETTING THE CITY COUNCIL - CITIZENS ADVISORY COMMITTEE
ON INTENSE RESIDENTIAL OCCUPANCIES
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Newport Beach adopted
Resolution 2007 -5 on January 23, 2007 to form the Council- Citizens Committee
on Intense Residential Occupancies (IROC); and
WHEREAS, IROC had the following duties:
1. To review and understand state and federal laws and regulations that limit
cities' ability to regulate some intense residential uses,
2. To study, evaluate and educate as to the adverse impacts intense
residential uses create that are contrary to and in excess of impacts
traditionally expected and accepted in residential neighborhoods and how
these uses can change the residential character of residential
communities,
3. To research and identify solutions to the problems created by intense
residential uses and determine whether a committee member or staff
person is best suited to do the research,
4. To make recommendations to the City Council for changes to regulations
applicable to all residential uses in a manner that preserves the residential
character of our neighborhoods
5. To work with group home, sober living, and residential treatment facility
operators and others to adopt and implement "best management
practices" that minimize any adverse impacts of intense residential
occupancies and
WHEREAS, the duties described above have been accomplished or are
no longer necessary to be completed via a Council- Citizens Committee as
follows:
1. The City Council hired two firms to act as Special Counsel to review state
and federal laws and to propose the new Group Residential Use
ordinance proposed for adoption on January 22, 2008 ( "Proposed
Ordinance ");
2. IROC, residents, and city staff provided (and received) information relating
to adverse impacts associated with intense residential occupancies, and
this information was incorporated into the Proposed Ordinance;
3, Special Counsel carefully considered all public input during public
meetings and via direct communications with affected parties. Special
Counsel used that input to research and identify proposed remedies to
these adverse impacts, and these remedies were incorporated in to the
Proposed Ordinance.
4. Special Counsel researched and identified changes to the City's codes
relating to Group Residential Uses, and these have been incorporated in
to the Proposed Ordinance.
5. In large part based on what the City learned by hearing about the adverse
impacts of an overconcentration of residential care facilities, the City has
worked with group home, sober living, and residential treatment facility
operators to adopt and implement `best management practices" that
minimize adverse impacts of intense residential occupancies; now,
therefore be it
RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Newport Beach that it
hereby rescinds Resolution 2007 -5 and therefore disbands the Council- Citizens
Ad Hoc Committee on Intense Residential Occupancies effective as of the date
of this Resolution.
ADOPTED this 22nd Day of January, 2008.
ATTEST:
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA }
COUNTY OF ORANGE
CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH }
I, LaVonne M. Harkless, City Clerk of the City of Newport Beach, California, do
hereby certify that the whole number of members of the City Council is seven; that the foregoing
resolution, being Resolution No. 2008 -8 was duly and regularly introduced before and adopted by the
City Council of said City at a regular meeting of said Council, duly and regularly held on the 22nd
day of January 2008, and that the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote, to wit:
Ayes: Henn, Rosansky, Daigle, Webb, Curry, Gardner, Mayor Selich
Noes: None
Absent: None
Abstain: None
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the
official seal of said City this 23rd day of January 2008.
(Seal)
C;DU�' M, /4r"
City Clerk
Newport Beach, California