Officials in Santa Ana are looking to join a growing list of Orange County cities regulating problematic sober living homes amid noise complaints, drug use and various disturbances in residential areas.
On Tuesday, city council members directed staff to bring back an ordinance regulating group homes where people with alcohol and drug addictions stay and participate in a recovery program to help them achieve sobriety.
The request from Mayor Valerie Amezcua, Phil Bacerra and David Penaloza comes after Costa Mesa recently won a legal battle centered on group home regulations…