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Gonzales planning commission recommends updated housing element and workforce-housing overlay to meet RHNA
Summary
The Planning Commission voted 5-0 to recommend that City Council adopt the city—s updated 6-cycle housing element and zoning changes, including a workforce-housing overlay to help the city demonstrate capacity for 1,266 new units across income levels.
The Gonzales City Planning Commission on July 14 unanimously recommended that the City Council adopt an updated 6-cycle housing element and related zoning changes intended to show capacity for 1,266 new homes.
Community Development staff presented the housing element as an eight-year policy document that updates the city—s General Plan to comply with state law and the regional housing needs allocation (RHNA). The staff presentation emphasized years of bilingual public outreach and described three resolutions the commission was asked to recommend to council: a CEQA exemption, a general-plan amendment to adopt the 2023'031 housing element, and zoning/text/map amendments to implement the element.
The document follows AMBAG—s RHNA allocation for Gonzales and…
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