There's fun history to that here in California. There was an older woman here in Santa Barbara that ran a house like that. Lots of rented out rooms, they ate

There's fun history to that here in California. There was an older woman here in Santa Barbara that ran a house like that. Lots of rented out rooms, they ate communal dinners, but you didn't have to come, etc. The city tried to shut it down, she took it to the state Supreme court, where they ruled in the homeowners' favor, saying essentially "the city doesn't get to decide what a family is. If these people want to call themselves a family, then they are a family, and this is a single-family home." As such, the restrictions now are on separate dwellings, as defined more by number of kitchens, sub-dividability, etc., not number of people.