Where is a residential care home for 7 or more people allowed in Temecula?

Find your lot's zone on the city zoning map, then read its row. Every status below was read from the Temecula Municipal Code use tables (read October 2026). Base zones only. General information, not legal advice — check with the city before you apply.

Temecula's code calls this use “Residential care facilities (seven or more)”. Each row links to the use table it comes from. A zone marked “see note” has a condition in the code, for example upper floors only or a larger lot.

• RISK: other seven-or-more rows differ: "Residential care facilities for the elderly (seven or more)" C in all 9 residential zones; "Alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facility (seven or more)" C (VL has note 8), M and H P; "Facilities for the mentally disordered, disabled, or dependent or neglected children (seven to twelve)" C, M and H P. So "P everywhere" holds only for the general "Residential care facilities" row, not for elderly care. Commercial (S3 "Community care facilities", unsized: NC-SC P) and PI (S5 "Group home" C, unsized) have no size split and are not used.
• State law: A licensed care home for six or fewer residents is a residential use under state law (Health and Safety Code § 1566.3); this page covers larger homes.
• Not covered here: Specific plan districts (SP-, Chapter 17.16): no use tables in the text; Planned development overlays PDO-1 to PDO-10 and others have their own tables, treated as overlays (base:false); Residential zones: S2 table has HR, RR, VL, L-1, L-2, LM, M, H, HR-SM; zone names are not stated in the packet except PI; Affordable Housing Overlay (AHO) referred to by notes 8 (S3) and 4 (S5), Chapter 17.21, not in the packet. Overlay zones and specific plans can also change the answer.

• Single-family home
• Duplex
• Senior or assisted living
• Child care center
• Horses and stables
• Kennel