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Planning commission forwards 2025 housing element report to city council, asks staff to correct classifications and list 'large sites'
Summary
Planning staff reported 2025 housing activity (9 approved units, 23 building permits, 19 certificates of occupancy and 13 ADU permits); commissioners asked for corrections to ministerial classifications and ADU percentage calculations and voted unanimously to forward the report to City Council with those amendments.
The Rancho Palos Verdes Planning Commission voted unanimously on March 10 to direct staff to forward the city's 2025 housing element annual progress report to City Council via minute order, with requested corrections to reporting classifications and additional information about the housing "large sites" program.
Associate planner Jeffrey Kim summarized the report and said the community development department approved 9 new units in 2025 (all accessory dwelling units), issued 23 building permits, and recorded 19 certificates of occupancy; the city issued permits for 13 ADUs in the 2025 calendar year. Kim said the city is in the sixth RHNA cycle (2021'2029), for which Rancho Palos Verdes is planning to accommodate 639 units in that cycle, and that the city has completed 88 units toward that total to date.
Commissioners pressed staff on several technical issues in the state reporting tables: how units designated "very low" were calculated (staff cited SCAG methodology and clarified ADUs were counted per SCAG allocations), whether SB 9 lot-split units would be identified and counted (staff said SB 9 units would be shown if received), and why several large single-family projects appeared in the report as "ministerial" approvals. Staff said they would review reporting classifications and confirm whether those projects had been correctly categorized as ministerial or non-ministerial.
One commissioner proposed amendments asking staff to correct ministerial classifications, verify the percentage of ADUs counted as very low-income under SCAG methodology, and to provide the list of "large sites" identified in the housing element inventory; the commission approved forwarding the report with those amendments.
Staff recommended the commission forward the report to City Council for the March 17 meeting; commissioners also discussed that some programs and progress do not show clearly in the state-generated spreadsheets and asked staff to provide supplemental information to Council.
