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Tulare County OKs submittal of LEAP grant report, updates to municipal service reviews and improvement standards
Summary
The Board of Supervisors authorized submittal of the Local Early Action Planning (LEAP) final report and attachments to the California Department of Housing and Community Development, accepted updated municipal service reviews, and authorized updates to county improvement standards as part of SB 2-funded planning work.
The Tulare County Board of Supervisors on March 25 authorized staff to submit the county’s final Local Early Action Planning (LEAP) report and associated attachments, including draft municipal service reviews and proposed county development standards, to the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD).
Aaron Bach, assistant director with the Resource Management Agency, told the board the LEAP grant comes from SB 2 recording-fee revenue and that the county’s allocation included $500,000 for county projects and a $65,000 pass-through to the City of Lindsay for zoning and subdivision ordinance updates. Bach said the county used the grant to update municipal service reviews (MSRs) that had not been updated since 2011 and to begin updating county improvement standards.
“The money we received was twofold,” Bach said, describing the work as bringing ordinances and standards into compliance with the county’s 2019 housing element and enabling future infrastructure and development review. The county contracted with Provost & Pritchard in February 2023 to update MSRs and worked with LAFCO for review and approval; two of four plan submittals have been received so far, and the remaining submittals are expected to be completed in June 2025.
Bach described a six-week public outreach period that Public Works will use to solicit feedback from engineers, developers, utilities and contractors on proposed improvement standards, after which staff will return to the board with updated standards for adoption. The report to HCD also summarized other planning and housing-related activity, including FEMA and Cal OES funding for a Kings River flood mitigation study and state awards under CDFA for dairy digester projects.
Supervisor McCarty moved to authorize submittal of the LEAP report and attachments, to authorize Tulare County LAFCO to adopt and incorporate the updated municipal service reviews, to authorize staff to present updated county improvement standards for Board adoption and incorporation into the general plan upon completion, and to designate the Resource Management Agency director as the environmental officer for grant-related matters. Supervisor Valero seconded the motion. The motion passed 4–0 with Supervisor Townsend absent.
The county will proceed with public outreach on the proposed improvement standards and expects to complete remaining plan submittals in June 2025, after which staff will bring the updated improvement standards to the board for formal adoption and incorporation into the public utilities element of the general plan.
