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PORTSMOUTH — A final attempt to operate a small residential substance abuse treatment home in a residential neighborhood in Portsmouth was denied this week.

Portsmouth City Council members on Tuesday unanimously shot down the application from Portsmouth-based Urban Life Substance Abuse and Outpatient Services to operate the treatment home at 21 Royal St. in the Fairville area of the city. The vote upholds a recommended denial from the Planning Commission last month , when city staff and commissioners noted the property lacks adequate off-street parking space for guests, recreational space and sufficient landscape buffering.

The roughly 1,300-square-foot home is located in an urban residential zoning district that allows low-to-medium-densit

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