Seal Beach officials approved a change to the Zoning Code to allow residential care facilities for six or fewer people in some parts of the city on Monday, April 9.
The amendment will allow small residential care facilities to operated “by right” in the light industrial/medium density residential district of Seal Beach. For those of you who don’t speak government, “by right” means that no public hearings would be required for operators to open residential care businesses. The small residential care facilities would serve six or fewer clients.
Interim Director of Development Services Greg Hastings said the amendment would simply make the code conform to state law.
Hastings said the Zoning Code amendment would add the industrial/medium density districts to other areas of the city that allowed small residential care facilities.
Shirley Broussard, who has campaigned for a homeless shelter in Seal Beach since 2009, said the facilities approved by the zoning amendment would suffice to meet an immediate need in the community.
The facilities would still have to be licensed with the state of California and the city of Seal Beach.
