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Fairfield planning staff present rezoning package to meet RHNA; commissioners defer action for legal review
Summary
Staff presented a rezoning and zoning‑text package to implement Fairfield’s 2023–2031 housing element, citing a three‑year statutory rezoning deadline. Commissioners raised concerns about ministerial review limits for supportive housing and public‑input loss; the commission directed staff to return Dec. 10 with clarifications.
City staff and consultants presented a package of general plan amendments, rezones and zoning‑ordinance changes intended to implement Fairfield’s 2023–2031 housing element and to bring the city into compliance with state housing law. Allison Moore, associate principal and the packet presenter, told the commission Fairfield must plan for a little over 3,000 additional housing units and that the housing element identified seven sites that should be rezoned to meet lower‑income RHNA requirements.
Moore warned of statutory timing: “State law requires that this rezoning be completed within 3 years of housing element adoption, and missing that deadline has a lot of serious consequences,” she said,…
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