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Planning Commission recommends council adopt 2023–2031 Housing Element after HCD compliance review

California City Planning Commission · January 6, 2026
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On Jan. 6 the commission voted to recommend the City Council adopt California City's 2023–2031 Housing Element and to submit it to the California Department of Housing and Community Development for certification; staff said HCD issued conditional compliance and the element addresses RHNA and fair-housing analyses.

The California City Planning Commission on Jan. 6 voted to recommend that the City Council adopt the 2023–2031 Housing Element and submit the adopted document to the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) for certification.

City planner Anu Devari and PlaceWorks consultant Cynthia Walsh presented the element, describing it as the city’s required eight‑year housing policy document. Walsh summarized the HCD review history, saying staff began the formal review process months earlier and that the city had received a conditional compliance letter from HCD following iterative submittals. "So it is compliant the minute we adopt it, that the city…

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