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Bakersfield planners receive 2025 Housing Element annual report, staff say city remains behind RHNA target
Summary
City planning staff presented Bakersfield's 2025 Housing Element Annual Progress Report, reporting 2,125 permits in 2025 and 12.7% of the sixth-cycle RHNA completed; commissioners voted to receive and file the report while routine consent items cleared the docket with one abstention.
The City of Bakersfield Planning Commission on April 16 received a presentation on the 2025 Housing Element Annual Progress Report and voted to receive and file the document.
Associate Planner Luis Ramirez told commissioners the APR is a state-required tool that tracks how jurisdictions implement their housing element and must be submitted to the State Housing and Community Development Department (HCD) and the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation (LCI) by April 1 each year. "The APR is a key tool required by the State of California that tracks a jurisdiction's progress in implementing its housing element," Ramirez said.
Ramirez said Bakersfield's sixth-cycle Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) covers 2024'032 and assigns the city…
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