California city and county planners and their consultants
Free checklist for a California housing element update: the 5- or 8-year cycle, HCD review, sites and hazards, with local data filled in.
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How it works
What you get
The check is free. The paperwork after it is drafted at the CEQA exemption finder door.
Modeled on: California HCD housing element guidance
From public data
is the longer of the two cycles a California city or county can choose for updating its housing element (the other is five years)
Source: California HCD, Housing element background
Match your project to a CEQA categorical or statutory exemption, check the §15300.2 exceptions and draft the Notice of Exemption. Free to read.
Questions
California jurisdictions can update every five or every eight years. HCD says the eight-year schedule was created to line up with the regional transportation plans that councils of governments must update and that now must align with housing plans.
Yes. HCD reviews every local housing element and sends written findings back to the city or county. Its approval is required before the local government can adopt the housing element as part of its general plan.
The Regional Housing Needs Allocation. HCD determines how much housing at a range of affordability levels each region needs, regional governments allocate that need to cities and counties, and each one adopts a housing element showing how it will meet its share.
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Answer it and ePlan opens the CEQA exemption finder door, which drafts the paperwork.