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Calimesa planning staff reports four residential permits issued in 2024; annual general plan progress filed
Summary
Planning Director Kelly Bussier told the Planning Commission the city issued four residential building permits in calendar year 2024 and submitted the General Plan Annual Progress Report and Housing Element progress report to state agencies; the commission received and filed the report.
Planning Director Kelly Bussier told the Calimesa Planning Commission on Oct. 13 that the city issued four residential building permits in calendar year 2024 and that staff submitted the General Plan Annual Progress Report and the Housing Element progress report to state agencies.
Bussier said three of the four permits were accessory dwelling units (ADUs) and one was a market-rate single-family unit. She also reported that 170 single-family detached units were entitled during the year; according to the presentation, 168 of those were in the Summerwind Commons development and 120 were in the Enclaves townhome development. Bussier described the overall 10-year trend in the city’s permit activity, noting years with large peaks and more recent declines.
“The city is required to submit a status of [the] general plan and progress,” Bussier said. “It is dismal. So what we have, for calendar year 2024…we issued 4 residential building permits in calendar year 2024, and 3 of those were accessory dwelling units.”
Bussier walked commissioners through a decade-long permit history presented in the staff report. Highlights cited in the presentation: 2018 showed a large increase in permits, 2020 was a busy year, activity dipped beginning in 2021, and 2023 consisted entirely of ADU permits (12 ADUs). She said the large subdivisions that drove earlier permit totals—JP Ranch, Summerlin Ranch and Singleton Heights—are largely built out or in later phases.
The staff report noted the 2025 Riverside County area median income (AMI) figure cited for a household of four ($103,900) and explained the municipal code definition of “lower income” as households earning up to 80% of AMI (roughly $83,000 for a family of four, per the presentation). Bussier said the report had been filed with the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) and the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research (OPR) earlier in the year and that the item would go to the City Council on Nov. 17, 2025.
The Planning Commission took no action beyond receiving and filing the report.
The staff packet and presentation are part of the administrative record and will accompany the item when it appears before the City Council.
