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Carmel moves forward with amended housing strategy, will seek state review

Carmel-by-the-Sea City Council · November 5, 2025
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Summary

Carmel-by-the-Sea staff presented a draft amendment to the city's six-cycle housing element that swaps a small-number, large-project strategy for a diversified mix of hotel conversions, mixed-income incentives, live-work units, expanded ADU projections and church-site housing.

City planning staff on Nov. 4 presented a proposed amendment to Carmel-by-the-Sea's certified six-cycle housing element that shifts the city's approach from a small number of larger, city-owned projects to a diversified set of smaller-scale strategies scattered through the village. The draft amendment would increase the planning inventory'including hotel-to-residential conversions, mixed-income incentive developments, live-work conversions of underused commercial spaces, updated accessory dwelling unit (ADU) projections and…

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