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Parlier adopts fifth-cycle housing element and related zoning changes
Summary
Parlier City Council adopted its fifth-cycle housing element and a package of zoning text amendments and rezones to meet the city's RHNA obligations; staff said the city will be in conditional compliance with HCD once final submittals are processed.
Parlier City Council on Dec. 18 adopted the city's fifth-cycle housing element and an implementing set of zoning amendments intended to give the city capacity to meet its state-assigned housing needs.
City planning staff said Parlier's RHNA number is 733 units and that carryover from the prior cycle raised the document's planning obligation to about 775 units; after credit for an approved subdivision of 311 units, staff said the city still needed capacity for roughly 464 units. The housing element was accompanied by a CEQA addendum and a conditional compliance letter from the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD), staff said.
"Your number in Parlier is 733 units," Sarah, the city planner, told the council during the presentation. She explained the plan identifies four sites and a mix of zoning changes to accommodate different income categories and density requirements. Staff said they had engaged HCD through multiple submittals and informal consultations and received a conditional compliance letter prior to the council meeting.
The council voted 5-0 to adopt resolution 2024-84 approving the housing element and CEQA addendum. Council also introduced and waived first reading of an ordinance (Ordinance 2024-03) to revise Title 18 of the municipal code to implement programs in the housing element, including rezones of identified parcels and updated definitions and procedures for housing-related uses.
Councilmembers asked staff to follow up on site-level questions raised during the public hearing, including testing and remediation responsibilities should a developer propose buildout on a site where historical rail use raised soil concerns. Staff said individual projects must complete environmental and toxic-site checks and abide by Department of Toxic Substances Control requirements at the project stage.
The adoption places Parlier into conditional compliance with HCD pending final administrative steps; staff said rezones, text amendments and development standards would be implemented through the ordinance process and subsequent permit reviews.
