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Planning commission recommends City Council submit 2025 Housing Element annual progress report to state agencies
Summary
Planning staff reported that Desert Hot Springs exceeded 2024 housing numbers in 2025 across entitled, permitted and completed categories and that the commission unanimously recommended the City Council adopt and submit the 2025 Housing Element Annual Progress Report to state housing agencies.
The Desert Hot Springs Planning Commission unanimously voted to recommend that the City Council adopt and submit the 2025 Housing Element Annual Progress Report (APR) to the California Department of Housing and Community Development and other state offices.
Travis Clark presented the APR, which staff said must be filed by April 1 and covers the 2021–2029 planning cycle. Clark told commissioners the city exceeded 2024 production in all categories for 2025: 292 entitled units (86 more than 2024), 248 permitted units (112 more than 2024) and 235 completed units (144 more than 2024). Clark said about 75 of the 248 permitted units were infill projects and that the city has made 704 of an assigned 3,873 RHNA units (~18%) toward its allocation.
Staff summarized the pipeline for affordable housing—Park Lane Homes (in partnership with Bode Community), a Green Day project and another project that together could yield 476 affordable units if all are built—and said a mid-cycle housing element update has been approved by the state. Clark recommended adoption of a commission resolution to forward the APR to the Governor's Office of Planning and Research and HCD.
Commissioners asked whether activity is trending above 2024; staff said recent permit-submission spikes in prior years have not yet repeated but that Park Lane Homes could quickly add 87 units if it secures funding, and that ongoing developer talks could further increase production. A commissioner moved to adopt the resolution; the motion was seconded and passed unanimously.
The commission's action directs staff to submit the APR to state agencies and to continue tracking entitlement, permitting and completion counts as part of the housing element implementation process.
