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Residential Use Category
intermediate care facility or nursing facility under I.C. one bathroom with tub or shower, toilet
§135C.1. and lavatory must be located on each floor
B. correctional Placement residence that is occupied by resident bedrooms. The
regulations of this paragraph do not apply
1. A correctional placement is a group living use to facilities licensed and regulated as health
occupied by 3 or more persons who have been care facilities by the state department of
convicted of public offenses and who have been public health.
released to such facility during any period of: e. Each such facility must contain areas for
a. Probation; dining and recreational purposes. When
b. Work release while serving a sentence in a space is used for multi-purpose dining
correctional institution; or and recreational purposes, the area must
c. Assignment to the judicial district include at least 30 square feet of floor area
per resident bed. When space is provided
department of correctional services after exclusively for dining, the area must include
receiving a deferred sentence. at least 15 square feet of floor area per
2. Correctional placement residences are subject to resident bed. When space is provided to be
the following supplemental use regulations: used exclusively for recreational purposes,
a. The proposed location must provide the area shall total at least 15 square feet of
residents with adequate access to public floor area per resident bed and at least 50%
transportation. of the required area must be in one room.
b. A permit for such use is subject to The regulations of this paragraph do not
apply to facilities licensed and regulated as
reconsideration by the board or adjustment health care facilities by the state department
if at any time the community development of public health.
director determines that the facility has
become detrimental to the neighborhood. f. Each correctional placement residence
c. Each bedroom within the residence must provide supervision 24 hours per day
by persons responsible for the care of the
must contain (i) beds for no more than residents.
4 residents, (ii) at least 80 square feet
of usable floor space per bed, except g. New correctional placement residences
a minimum of 60 square feet of usable may not be located within 1,320 feet of any
floor space per bed is permitted for those existing family home, correctional placement
correctional placement residences that residence, or temporary shelter, except
are constructed after July 1, 1991 and when such facilities are separated from by a
are owned or leased and administered freeway or river.
by the fifth judicial district department c. Family Home
of correctional services as part of a 1. A family home is a community-based residential
community-based correctional program home licensed as a residential care facility
under I.C. ch. 905, and (iii) usable floor space under I.C. Ch. 135C or as a child foster care
of at least 8 feet in any major dimension. facility under I.C. ch. 237 to provide room and
For purposes of calculating usable floor board, personal care, rehabilitation services,
space, any parts of a room having less than and supervision in a family environment
7 feet of ceiling height may not be counted. exclusively for not more than 8 persons with a
Rooms in which beds are located may not developmental disability or brain injury and any
be used for purposes other than bedrooms. necessary support personnel. A family home
The regulations of this paragraph do not includes an elder group home but does not
apply to facilities licensed and regulated as include an individual foster care family home
health care facilities by the state department licensed under I.C. ch. 237.
of public health.
d. Each such facility must contain at least one 2. New family homes owned and operated by
public or private agencies must be dispersed
lavatory and one toilet per 10 residents or throughout residential districts and may not be
fraction thereof and one tub or shower per located within contiguous city block areas (see
15 residents or fraction thereof. At least
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