To: MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL
From: SEAN SCULLY, ACTING COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR
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RECEIVE AND FILE THE 2023 GENERAL PLAN AND HOUSING ELEMENT ANNUAL PROGRESS REPORTS TO BE SUBMITTED TO THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND THE STATE OFFICE OF PLANNING AND RESEARCH
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Changes in State law (Government Code Section 65400), effective January 1, 2018, require all cities, including charter cities (which had been exempt prior to 2017), to provide an annual progress and status report to the legislative body (Mayor and City Council) on its General Plan. A separate report is also now required on the City's progress implementing its Housing Element. These reports are required to be submitted to the State Office of Planning and Research (OPR) and the State Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) by April 1 of each year. This administrative report includes attachments of the City's annual reports and provides a summary of their content.
BACKGROUND
The General Plan Annual Progress Report (APR), excluding Housing Element information, is not required to be prepared in any particular format or on any standardized forms. OPR has issued general guidelines to assist local governments with the development of the General Plan APR, but the guidelines are intentionally general to allow maximum flexibility in form and content. OPR's stated purpose of the General Plan APR is to "... explain how land use decisions (during the 12-month reporting period) relate to adopted goals, policies, and implementation measures of the General Plan. The General Plan APR is not required to incorporate all of the elements and "need not be an elaborate and time-consuming task."
In keeping with the general parameter's outlined in OPR's "Guidelines", the scope of the "2023 General Plan APR" briefly presents a summary of the following topics:
* Status of the City's Current General Plan
* Chronology of the City's Curr...
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