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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,August 21,2023 Page 8 Mayor Roe summarized that the direction to staff is to look at, as they discussed, doing this as a permitted use and update the code language as appropriate, pay special attention to manufactured home table and language there, and consistency of the use of the term manufactured home versus mobile home. d. Discussion Regarding Adoption of A "Reasonable Accommodation" Ordinance Senior Planner Bryan Lloyd briefly highlighted this item as detailed in the Request for Council Action and related attachments dated August 21, 2023. Councilmember Etten explained looking at the folks who originally reached out about this,they were talking about up to twenty-four residents living on site. As he thought about that and the health impacts for the people living there, he did not know many homes, in the traditional sense, can have twenty-four people. He asked if it is reasonable thinking that there is a cap of two or three people per bedroom in a home or thinking about the number of people per bathroom. He asked if those are things the City can do, thinking about the impact on neighbors if there were twenty or twenty-four people living in a place. He noted if all of them had cars, it would be a parking lot situation and barring a parking lot, there would be a fairly large impact on the neighbors. He asked what kinds of things the City can have for the health and welfare for the people staying in the place as well as the impact beyond the place itself, on the neighborhood. City Attorney Tierney explained those are appropriate considerations. She would encourage the City Council not to get too far into this one application. What she can say is that sober houses are certainly a growing model Nationwide and the issue of sober homes going into cities is being litigated frequently. It is a very evolving part of the law and also very unpredictable where a court will land. All of those factors are fact-based and everything the City Council is going to look at is to weigh facts to make decisions. The purpose of the Ordinance is to do just what Councilmember Etten is saying,outlying,what should be looked at,what is relevant for the City when making this consideration. When these cases come before the City Council, the record that is made is going to be very important and how thoughtful the Council is will be very important but to answer Councilmember Etten's actual question, she thought those considerations would be very appropriate. Mayor Roe thought the particular application, at twenty-four, stood out as quite a high number and creates the question of what a good number is to allow. City Attorney Tierney explained a bright line is fairly indefensible, part of reasonable accommodation and concept of reasonable accommodation is an individualized assessment of the situation such as what are the needs and what are the consequences and how can those needs be met. It would not be okay for the