In re Confluence Behavioral Health, LLC Conditional Use to Operate a Therapeutic Community Residence Program (Jason Albert, Appellants)

¶ 1. The Environmental Division approved the issuance of a conditional-use permit for Confluence Behavioral Health, LLC's proposed community therapeutic residence in Thetford. A group of neighbors appeal the decision. Neighbors contend that the Environmental Division improperly concluded that Confluence's therapeutic community residence (the Project) was a health care facility, and thus was an allowed conditional use under the Thetford zoning ordinance. Neighbors also assert that the Project's residential use requires separate permitting and that it impermissibly establishes a nonconforming…