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San Mateo County planning staff outline 2025 long-range work program, timetables for housing rezoning and safety updates
Summary
Planning staff presented a prioritized 2025 work program that emphasizes housing-related rezoning, safety and environmental-justice elements, community plans for the coast, several transportation studies, and new online tools; staff warned budget constraints could force some projects to be delayed.
Planning Services Manager Bharat Singh told the San Mateo County Planning Commission on April 9 that the department’s long-range work program for 2025 centers on housing-related rezoning, safety- and environmental-justice elements, several coastal community plans and transportation studies, and new operational tools for public access.
Singh said HCD (California Department of Housing and Community Development) has found the county’s revised housing element met statutory requirements and that the department is hiring consultants to prepare rezoning work, including CEQA review and outreach. "The rezoning is expected to be completed by the end of 2026," Singh said.
Commissioners heard why rezoning consultants are needed and what they will do: review existing policies and development standards, reconcile conflicts with older specific plans (Singh cited the Colma specific plan as an example), run required outreach, and support CEQA analysis. Singh said the consultant contract…
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