2000-10ORDINANCE NO. 2000-10
An ordinance amending the zoning ordinance to def'me residential shelter care facilities and
make such fac'dities a conditional use within the O1, Office / Residence District, with a
penalty and injunctive relief for a violation thereof as set forth in Section 18.28.010 of the
Code of General Ordinances of the City of Janesville.
THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF JANESVILLE DO ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
SECTION I. Section 18.20.793 of the Code of General Ordinance of the City of Janesville is
hereby created to read as follows:
18.20.793 RESIDENTIAL SHELTER CARE FACILITY. "Residential Shelter Care
Facility" means a dwelling unit in which short-term occupancy (not exceeding 60 days) may be
provided as a service to multiple related or unrelated individuals in need of emergency shelter,
sustenance and other support services. Such facilities shall be run as not-for-profit operations. They
are intended to principally serve clients including but not limited to the homeless, persons seeking
immediate refuge from violence or abuse, persons rendered shelterless by natural disasters or
calamity or other persons that by some atypical circumstance have been displaced from their normal
or permanent residence. Residential shelter care facilities are not intended to provide transitional
housing or accommodate licensed communal living arrangements including but not limited to group
homes, foster homes or community based residential facilities.
SECTION II.
Section 18.36.030 B. 1 .c.viii. is hereby created to read as follows.
viii. Residential shelter care facilities;
SECTION IIL This ordinance shall take effect immediately upon adoption by the Common
Council, the public health, welfare, peace, tranquility, good order, public benefit, and police
power so requiring."
ADOPTED: March 23, 2000
APPROVED:
Si-even E. Sheiffer, City ManOr
ATTEST:
Jea~nn Wulf, City Clerk-Treasurer ~
APPrOVeD AS TO FO U: '-g)
Ci, ~o~ngy -
MOTION BY: Westphal
SECOND BY: Brien
COUNCILMEMBER AYE NAY PASS ABSENT
VVESTPHAL X
MURPHY X
O'LEARY X
BRIEN X
STEHURA X
i NOLL X
SCHNEIDER X
Proposed by:
O'Leary
Prepared by:
City Councilmembers Westphal and
Planning Department