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General Government <br />in new homes and townhouses and supports discussion and the dissemination of <br />information around these impacts via the code adoption process through the Department <br />of Labor and Industry. <br />2-G Administrative Fines <br />Traditional methods of citation, enforcement and prosecution have met with increasing costs <br />to local units of government. The use of administrative fines is a tool to moderate those costs. <br />Metro Cities supports the administrative fine authority granted to allow cities to issue <br />administrative fines for defined local traffic offenses and supports further modifications <br />to enhance the workability of the authority. Metro Cities continues to support all cities' <br />authority to use administrative fines for regulatory ordinances such as building codes, <br />zoning codes, health codes, and public safety and nuisance ordinances. <br />Metro Cities supports the use of city administrative fines, at a minimum, for regulatory <br />matters that are not duplicative of misdemeanor or higher -level state traffic and <br />criminal offenses. Metro Cities also endorses a fair hearing process before a <br />disinterested third party. <br />2-H Residential Programs <br />Sufficient funding and oversight is needed to ensure that residents living in residential <br />programs have appropriate care and supervision and that neighborhoods are not <br />disproportionately impacted by high concentrations of residential programs. Historically, <br />federal and state laws have discouraged the concentration of residential group homes so as not <br />to promote areas that reinforce institutional quality settings. <br />Under current law, operators of certain residential programs are not required to notify cities <br />when they intend to purchase single-family housing for this purpose. Cities do not have the <br />authority to regulate the locations of residential programs. Cities have reasonable concerns <br />about high concentrations of these facilities in residential neighborhoods, and additional traffic <br />and service deliveries surrounding these facilities when they are grouped closely together. <br />Municipalities recognize and support the services residential programs provide. However, <br />cities also have an interest in preserving balance between residential programs and other uses <br />in residential neighborhoods. <br />Providers applying to operate residential programs should be required to notify the city <br />when applying for licensure so as to be informed of local ordinance requirements as a part <br />of the application process. Licensing agencies should be required to notify the city of <br />properties receiving licensure to be operated as residential programs. <br />Metro Cities supports statutory modifications to require licensed agencies and licensed <br />providers that operate residential programs to notify the city of properties being <br />operated as residential programs. Metro Cities also supports the establishment of <br />appropriate non- concentration standards for residential programs, to prevent <br />2018 Legislative Policies <br />13 <br />