22.     REPORT, Committee on Appointments and Briefings, recommending to the City Council to take "NO FURTHER ACTION" on the WRITTEN MOTION, Councillors Gomes, Winterson and Carney, requesting that our local Sate and Federal Delegations look into amending the Americans with Disabilities and Fair Housing Acts, pertaining to the location of sober or group homes, which would give the Cities and Towns an appeal process to the location of such facilities, so that such a home is placed in an appropriate location; and further, that laws also be put into place to make sure that our City's neighborhoods are not saturated with such homes in residential and/or business-zoned areas.

22a.    WRITTEN MOTION, Councillors Gomes, Winterson and Carney, requesting that our local State and Federal Delegations look into amending the American with Disabilities and Fair Housing Acts, pertaining to the location of sober or group homes, which would give Cities and Towns an appeals process to the location of such facilities, so that such a home is placed in an appropriate location; and further, that laws also be put in place to make sure that our City's neighborhoods are not saturated with such homes in residential and/or business-zoned areas. (Referred to the Committee on Appointments and Briefings - January 14, 2016.)