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from that placed on any other kind of group-care home in the city. He said the Planning Commission received no testimony in opposition, but considerable support for the amendment from many organizations ~ in the area. He noted the amendment had been referred to all neighbor- ,.., hood organizations with only Churchill and Fairmount responding. Public hearing was held with no testimony presented. C.B. 1622--Concerning placement of facilities for the care and/or lodging of alcoholics; amending Code 1971; deleting Section 9.492(3} was read by council bill number and title only, there being no Councilor present requesting it be read in full. Mr. Hamel moved, seconded by Mr. Bradley, that the bill be read the second time by council bill number only, with unanimous consent of the Council, and that enactment be considered at th i s time. Mr. Bradley felt it more wise to have conditional use of the alcoholic group-care homes in commercial and retail areas. Mr. Saul said the emphasis on locating them in C-1 or C-2 zones was misplaced because, as a general rule, group-care facilities are not located within either of those zone districts. He said the emphasis should be on the question of whether facilities for alcoholics should be treated differently than other group-care facilities are treated within the ci ty . Mr. Delay noted the testimony given before the Planning Commission by Sarah Mahler, representing the West University Neighbors in which ~ it was felt by the neighborhood organization that group-care facili- ~ ties should be treated equally in all zones. He wondered why these facilities should be outright uses in one zone and conditional uses in others, and questioned whether or not they should simply be all conditional uses in all zones or outright uses in all zones. He referred to outright use in R-4 zones, and felt perhaps this zone district was becoming "second class." Mr. Saul replied the Planning Commission had considered those questions on four different occasions. However, he felt that was a different subject than what was before the Council this evening. He said the problem is that there are any number of uses within an R-4 District, which for a variety of reasons are permitted as outright uses and are either not permitted at all or treated as conditional uses in other zone areas. He said by nature of the. facilities, group-care homes were usually located near the down- town area close to the services required by the clientele. Mr. Delay said he wanted to alert Council that there are other kinds of problems in various parts of the city as it looks to the future. Vote was taken on the motion, which carried unanimously and the bill was read the second time by council bill number only. 3/13/78--8 e Ib1. I