REPORT TO PLANNING COMMISSION
SUBJECT
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Rezoning of 17 sites along El Camino Real totaling 27.7 acres to MU-RC Mixed Use Regional Commercial, consistent with the City's General Plan Land Use Diagram, for the purpose of adding additional sites to the City's Housing Element (CEQA: Use of a previously adopted addendum to the General Plan 2010-2035 EIR for the Zoning Code Update)
Report
BACKGROUND
The City Council adopted the Zoning Code Update on January 9, 2024 and an implementation step is the adoption of the City's Zoning Map, which will apply the new Zoning Districts as well as rezone properties across the City to Zoning Districts that will be consistent with their General Plan designations. Having consistent zoning and General Plan designations on all properties is a requirement of State law. The Zoning Map adoption will be brought forward for Planning Commission and City Council consideration in the May through June 2024 timeframe. Rezoning 17 sites on El Camino Real in advance of the Zoning Map adoption process is proposed to enable these sites to qualify for inclusion in the Sites Inventory as part of the City's Housing Element. For a site to qualify for inclusion in the City's Housing Element, it must have consistent General Plan and Zoning that would enable housing redevelopment on that site.
As a part of the Housing Element certification process by the State, the City has been in discussions with the State Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) reviewing the City's adopted Housing Element. To provide a Sites Inventory that demonstrates adequate capacity both to meet the City's Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) of 11,632 units and to also accommodate the development of HCD's recommended minimum 15-percent buffer of additional units over the course of the next eight years, the City's Housing Element includes a program to rezone the identified El Camino Real sites. HCD has indicated that rezoning these sites is a necessary ste...
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