Santa Ana is joining a growing list of Orange County cities regulating problematic sober living homes amid complaints of open drug use, noise and other disturbances in the residential areas they’re located in.
Officials in Costa Mesa, Mission Viejo, Buena Park and Fountain Valley have all enacted their own policies to regulate these types of alcohol and drug addiction rehabilitation homes in recent years in an effort to quell residents’ complaints.
While city officials throughout Orange County have noted the importance of such drug addiction treatment homes, they say tighter regulations are needed for problematic homes – businesses that overbook their services and don’t provide enough client oversight…