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Regular-Community Services # 56.
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| Board of Supervisors Meeting |
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| Receive presentation of the 2014 Annual Report regarding the status of the Yolo County General Plan and progress in its implementation. The Annual Report provides information regarding housing, development, and the status of General Plan action item implementation. The report is Statutorily Exempt under CEQA. (No general fund impact) (Echiburu/Anderson/Parfrey) |
| Recommended Action |
| That the Board of Supervisors receives and accepts the 2014 General Plan Annual Report, and directs staff to submit the report to all appropriate agencies. |
| Strategic Plan Goal(s) |
Champion job creation and economic opportunities
Preserve and ensure safe and crime free communities
Preserve and support agriculture
Protect open space and the environment
Provide fiscally sound, dynamic and responsive services |
| Reason for Recommended Action/Background |
California Government Code Section 65400.(b).(1) requires all cities and counties to submit an annual progress report to their legislative bodies regarding the status of the General Plan and progress in its implementation. A copy of the annual report must also be sent to the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research and the State Department of Housing and Community Development.
BACKGROUND
The Annual Report is required implementation of the General Plan, as provided for in Action IN-A8, which states: “Pursuant to State law (Section 65400a2), provide an annual report to the Board of Supervisors and the State on implementation of the General Plan including all goals, policies and actions (Policy IN-1.1).”
The following are some specific highlights of the report.
General Plan Status
There are 486 separate Action Items in the adopted 2030 General Plan. More than 59 percent (285) involve ongoing efforts with no specific completion date. Of the 201 remaining Action Items with a completion date, over one-half (107) have already been completed. Almost two-thirds (64) of the completed Action Items were completed with the adoption of the comprehensive Zoning Code update in July 2014. Thus, over one-half of the scheduled Action Items have been accomplished within the first five years of implementing the 2030 General Plan.
There were two General Plan Amendments approved in 2014, including GPA 2014-01(changes to retain consistency with the adopted Zoning Code Update) and GPA 2014-02: amendment to General Plan Policy LU.2.2 Amendment to be consistent with the intent of the revised Clustered Agricultural Housing Ordinance.
Work in 2014 focused on the following long-range planning activities:
• Completion of the comprehensive Zoning Code update;
• Update of the Housing Element of the General Plan and the related Disadvantaged Unincorporated Communities Assessment;
• Adoption of three Zoning Code Amendments related to housing;
• Update of the County Flood Protection Ordinance to ensure consistency with FEMA and DWR requirements;
• Update of the Clarksburg Area Plan to ensure consistency with the Delta Protection Plan;
• Update of the Clustered Agricultural Housing, and Agricultural Conservation and Mitigation Program Ordinances;
• Update of the Inclusionary Housing Ordinance; and
• Review of the Dunnigan Specific Plan
The 2030 Yolo Countywide General Plan includes five Specific Plan areas that could be the locations of a significant amount of urban growth over the planning period. However, only one of these plans, the Dunnigan Specific Plan, has moved forward. During 2014, staff and consultants met intensively to review and revise the draft Dunnigan Specific Plan. The applicant has been instructed by the County to prepare a jobs/housing program that meets very stringent General Plan policy standards. At this time, it is unclear whether the Specific Plan will proceed to the preparation of an environmental impact report.
Development Activity
A total of 58 planning permit applications were submitted in 2012, up from the previous low of 42 applications in 2012, which was the lowest level of activity in the past 20 years.
Major development projects approved during 2014 include:
• Bogle Wind Turbine;
• Capital Conservation Bank; and
• Teichert Shifler General Plan Amendment authorization.
The total number of building permits issued in 2014 was 735, about the same as the previous year. Total new construction valuation was over $39.5 million, a significant decrease from the year before, primarily because no large, high value projects (such as the Bogle facility) began construction.
Housing Element
According to the Department of Finance, in 2014 unincorporated Yolo County had a total of 7,345 housing units, with an average of 2.88 persons per household. The housing stock includes approximately 82 percent single family homes; 5 percent multiple family homes; and 12 percent mobile homes. An additional 7,136 people live in group quarters (primarily student housing at UC Davis), which makes up about 27 percent of the total unincorporated area population. The vacancy rate was estimated at 9.4 percent.
A total of 23 new homes were built in the unincorporated area last year, which was partially offset by the demolition of eight homes, for a net increase of 15.
The current Housing Element reporting period started in 2013 and ends in 2021. The Regional Housing Needs Plan (RHNP) for Yolo County is developed by the Sacramento Area Council of Governments, and allocates to cities and unincorporated counties their “fair share” of the region’s projected housing needs, or the Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA). The needs plan allocates the needs allocation based on household income groupings over the 2013-2021 planning period. The RHNP identified a total of 1,890 dwelling units as the unincorporated County’s “fair share” of the regional needs total for the eight year period 2013-2021. This includes a RHNA of 362 units for the unincorporated County and 1,528 units for the UC-Davis portion of the unincorporated County, for a total of 1,890 new housing units. As documented in the adopted Housing Element, the existing designated and zoned land in the 2030 General Plan and current zoning maps is sufficient to achieve the RHNA numbers. |
| Collaborations (including Board advisory groups and external partner agencies) |
| Staff has coordinated with Yolo Housing in the preparation of this report. |
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