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AN ORDINANCE
Amending the Zoning Ordinance to Add
Child Residential Care Homes as Special
Uses in All Residential Districts
WHEREAS, The Plan Commission held public hearings on March 8,
1995 and April 5, 1995, pursuant to proper notice, in case number ZPC 94-
0008(T), a petition by Boys Hope of Illinois, an Illinois not -for -profit
corporation, for amending Sections 6-4-4-1, 6-18-3, and any other related
Sections of the Zoning Ordinance, regarding Residential Care Homes
Category I and II and Child Residential Care Homes; and
WHEREAS, based upon the testimony presented, the Plan Commission
issued a written decision pursuant to Section 6-3-4-6(E) of the Zoning
Ordinance recommending that the Ordinance be amended to define Child
Residential Care Home, list such Homes as special uses in all Residential
Zoning Districts and to require that such Homes be licensed and separated
by a distance of nine hundred (900') feet;
WHEREAS, the City Council finds that the 900 foot distancing
requirement serves to promote integration into the community of institutional
housing for adolescents and helps to achieve this goal by preventing the
clustering into one area of such homes, and
NOW, THEREFORE, be it ordained by the City Council of the City of
Evanston, Cook County, Illinois:
SECTION 1: The City Council hereby accepts the Plan
Commission's recommendation in case number ZPC 94-0008(T) and grants
the petition of Boys Hope of Illinois for amendments to the text of the
Zoning Ordinance regarding Child Residential Care Homes, namely:
a. Section 6-18-3 is amended by adding, in alphabetical order, a
definition of "Child Residential Care Home", to read as follows:
SECTION 6-18-3: DEFINITIONS
CHILD RESIDENTIAL CARE HOME: A dwelling unit shared by
four to eight (4-8) unrelated persons, under the age of twenty-
one (21) years, exclusive of staff, who require assistance and/or
supervision while pursuing a primary or secondary education
curriculum, and who reside together in a family -type environment
as a single housekeeping unit. Child Residential Care Home shall
not include a home for persons who are currently addicted to
alcohol or narcotic drugs or who are criminal or juvenile
offenders serving on work release, probationary or court -ordered
supervisory programs for offenders; nor a dormitory,
fraternity/sorority dwelling, boarding house, rooming house or
nursing home.
b. Section 6-4-4 is amended by adding "Child Residential Care Homes"
to the title in Section 6-4-4, to read as follows:
6-4-4: RESIDENTIAL CARE HOMES AND CHILD
RESIDENTIAL CARE HOMES
c. Sections 6-4-4-1 and 6-4-4-2 are amended to add Child Residential
Day Care Homes, to read as follows:
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• 6-4-4-1 PURPOSE: The purpose of this Section is to permit
the establishment of residential care homes for the
disabled and child residential care homes, as defined in Chapter 18,
"Definitions", subject to licensing procedures, and, where appropriate,
special use standards.
6-4-4-2: LICENSE REQUIRED: No residential day care home
or child residential care home shall be established, operated
or maintained within the City without a valid license issued by the City of
Evanston Department of Health and Human Services pursuant to the
requirements of Title 8 of the City Code.
d. A new Section 6-4-4-3 is added to read as follows:
6-4-4-3: CHILD RESIDENTIAL CARE HOMES AUTHORIZED AS
SPECIAL USES IN RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS:
Child residential care homes may be permitted, as a special use, t'
upon the issuance of a license pursuant to Section 6-4-4-2, in
• the R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 and R6 Districts: provided, however, that
child residential care homes are not located within nine hundred
feet (900') of another child residential care home, residential care
home, transitional treatment facility, or an existing child care
institution.
e. That existing Sections 6-4-4-3 through 6-4-4-6 are
renumbered as 6-4-4-4 through 6-4-4-7, respectively.
f. That Sections 6-8-2-4, 6-8-3-3, 6-8-4-3, 6-8-5-3, 6-8-6-3,
and 6-8-7-3 are amended to list the following as a special use in
the R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, and R6 Residential Districts:
CHILD RESIDENTIAL CARE HOME
SECTION 2: That the text amendments are consistent_ with the
• standards for amendments set forth in Section 6-3-4-5, in that:
a. The amendments are consistent with the Comprehensive
General Plan in that Child Residential Care Homes will provide
adaptive reuse of large, single-family homes that may otherwise
be unmarketable.
b. City and Municipal services are adequate to serve such
Homes, in that Child Residential Care Homes shall be limited to
no more than eight (8) occupants, excluding staff, making them
similar is size to traditional households.
SECTION 3: All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith
are hereby repealed.
SECTION 4: This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and
after its passage, approval, and publication in the manner provided by law.
Introduced:'a 2Z'
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Adopted:
ATTEST:
City Clerk
Apprcved as to fo m
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Corpor tiokCounsel
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Appr d:
Mayor
1995
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