Draft Substance Abuse Treatment
Center Ordinance
Amendment No. A-045-2025
City Council
September 23, 2025
Background
• “Substance Abuse Treatment Centers” are facilities
or clinics that operate outpatient treatment, whether
or not counseling services are provided, for persons
with a substance abuse disorder by employing
medicines such as methadone, suboxone, subutex,
and vivitrol, which eliminate cravings and withdrawal
symptoms that may occur when individuals with
various substance dependence stop using their
substance of abuse.
2 Background
• GGMC needed new regulations to properly address
locational criteria and operational standards
• City Council direction to prepare Urgency Interim Ordinance No. 2949
• Adopted 12/20/23 for 45 days and extended for a total of one year on 1/23/24
• Extended on 11/8/24 for one additional year to expire on 12/20/25
• Planning Commission hearing: 8/21/25
3 Operational Standards
• Conditional Use Permnit (CUP) required
• Hearing body shall have the authority to impose conditions including those related to:
• hours of operation;
• requirements for security lighting and cameras;
• requirements for private security and monitoring of
parking lots.
• Parking ratio: 5 spaces per 1,000 sq. ft. of gross floor area • Dispensing of medicine shall occur within a wholly enclosed building (no drive-thrus).
4 Locational Criteria
• Not permitted within 500 feet of:
• any "R" zoned property;
• any property with a residential overlay;
• any property occupied by a residential use;
• any Planned Unit Development (unless it is amended to expressly allow the use);
• any public or private school facility, grades K through 12; • any property developed with a child day care center; or • any property occupied by a community meeting center, a public park, or a public library.
• Not permitted within 500 feet of another substance abuse treatment center within or outside the City.
5 Key Map (500-Foot Buffer)
6 M-1 Zone:
Harbor Blvd./
Westminster Ave.
500-Foot Buffer
7 Land Use Matrix
8 Offices and Related Uses
O-P C-1 C-2 C-3 M-1 M-P O-S
Additional
Regulations
and Comments
Administration/
Business P P P [-] [-] [-] [-]
Banks/
Financial
Institution
P P P P P [-] [-]
Medical, Dental and Related
Health Service Support Facilities P P P [-] C [-] [-]
Prescription Pharmacy P P P P [-] [-] [-]
Professional
And
Clerical
P P P [-] [-] [-] [-]
Public Utility
(Commercial) P P P P P [-] [-]
Substance Abuse Treatment
Centers [-] [-] [-] [-] C [-] [-]
See Section 9.16.020.050.BE
(Substance Abuse Treatment
Centers)
Recommendation
9 Staff recommends that the City Council:
• Conduct a Public Hearing; and
• Introduce and conduct the first reading of an Ordinance approving Amendment No. A-045-2025.
Draft Substance Abuse Treatment
Center Ordinance
Amendment No. A-045-2025
City Council
September 23, 2025