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 Revere
 Code of Ordinances
 Title 17. ZONING
 Chapter 17.16. USE REGULATIONS

  § 17.16.050. Sexual offender residential treatment facilities.  

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  • A.

    Preamble. Whereas, the city council finds it necessary to regulate the location of sexual offender residential treatment facilities by allowing such facilities by special permit within certain location within the TED district, in order to ensure that such facilities are located in readily identifiable areas away from public or private schools, parks and playgrounds, and by doing so, thereby aiding in the enforcement of public safety and protection of school age children from being endangered by coming into contact with level 3 sex offenders.

    Now therefore, the city council determines the following:

    B.

    Sexual Offender Residential Facilities, clinics, service centers and/or any similar type of programs (hereinafter sexual offender residential treatment facility), that provides live-in counseling, treatment classes or guidance, erected, constructed placed, altered, converted or otherwise changed may be allowed only by special permit in the TED district by the city council, in compliance with the dimensional and parking control requirements of this title, except as specifically changed by this section:

    1.

    Sexual offender residential treatment facilities may not be located or operated within two thousand feet of a public school, private school, parochial school, city or Commonwealth of Massachusetts approved charter school, a public or private accredited preschool, an accredited head start facility, elementary, vocational or secondary school and city and/or state public park or playground which is located within the boundaries of the city. The distance between the sexual offender residential treatment facility shall be determined by a straight line from the boundary of the school and/or playground and the boundary to the sexual offender treatment facility.

    2.

    No permit or license, including but not limited to, an occupancy permit, shall be issued by the city and/or any city department, for any location and/or building for the purpose of the operation of a sexual offender residential treatment facility in the city, within the geographic restrictions and limitations as described in this section.

(C.O.05-58 § 1)