Group Housing

This model ordinance was prepared by Mental Health Advocacy Services, Inc., for use by cities and counties to provide a process for making reasonable accommodation to land use and zoning decisions and procedures regulating the siting, funding, development and use of housing for people with disabilities. An introduction explains the legal mandates that require cities and counties to both eliminate fair housing violations and implement a procedure for providing reasonable accommodation in land use, zoning and building regulations, policies, practices, and procedures.