DEFINITION
An establishment that provides services to persons in need of assistance due to age, physical or mental disability, addiction, illness, or injury.
STANDARDS
- A special permit application for a human services facility must document the communities need for the proposed facility and provide a detailed description of the uses, including an estimation of the number of individuals to be served at the facility over a stated time period, activities and programs anticipate at the facility, hours of operations, degree of supervision at the facility, and any other information as may be reasonably be necessary to ascertain the impact of the proposal facility on public safety, health, and welfare.
- A special permit for a human services facility may be granted only where the use is found to be consistent with the following criteria: The proposed use will not alter the essential nature and characteristics of the community; The proposed use will not result in a duplication of services, in relation to need, cost, and service efficiency, that would hinder the community integration goals of the facility and create service capacity in excess of the overall need in the community. Considerations relevant for this determination are the distance between the proposed facility and to other facilities which offer the same services, the capacity of the proposed facility and the total capacity of all similar human service facilities in the community, the access or failure of other such facilities operated by the individual or group seeking approval, and the ability of the community to meet the special needs, if an, of the applicant facility.