Needed flexibility on sober-living homes

When it comes to sober-living homes, it seems there is a reflexive urge to throw the baby out with the bathwater. In Costa Mesa, home to the second-highest number of licensed drug rehabilitation centers per capita in the state, residents’ exasperation with the industry is understandable, but, as in all things, some flexibility is important.
The Costa Mesa City Council, therefore, made the right decision last week when it exercised discretion in regulating the city’s sober-living hom