Community Care Facilities

Resources and Publications

The following resources deals with various aspects of Community Care Facilities.

Special Needs Residential Facilities - Amendments to Definitions and Guidelines - (PDF, 169KB) - A Council report from April 2008 that details changes in terminology around SNRFS and Community Care Facilities.

Special Needs Residential Facilities in Vancouver: Record of Public Complaints on the Operation of Facilities - (PDF, 89KB) - A review of the number and nature of complaints recieved about the different types of SNRFs operating in Vancouver. Produced by the Social Planning Department in June 2006.

Planning for Special Needs Residential Facilities: reflections on a development application (PDF, 735KB) - A paper prepared by Daphne Powell in September 2005 as part of a professional Masters Project for the School of Community and Regional Planning, University of British Columbia. We are posting this paper on the Social Planning website as an interesting commentary on the application process for a Special Needs Residential Facility at 5615 Fraser Street in Vancouver. The opinions expressed in the paper are those of the author.

Non-residential and Residential Social Services: What ARE the Impacts? (PDF, 192KB) - Commissioned by the Social Planning Department and prepared by Daphne Powell in the Spring of 2005. The original purpose of this study was to review research on the impact of non-residential social services on their adjacent neighbourhoods. However, the researcher found that there is almost no research on non-residential uses. The paper discusses those studies and reports which could be found, and also reviews some of the more recent work on impacts of residential uses which serve people with disabilities/illnesses.

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