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Commission receives 2025 General Plan and Housing Element progress reports and forwards them to Council
Summary
The Planning Commission received and filed two state‑required annual reports — the General Plan APR and the Housing Element APR for 2025 — and directed staff to forward the reports (with suggested edits) to City Council; commissioners emphasized the reports should prompt public engagement on long‑term goals and identified RHNA shortfalls.
On March 5 the Calabasas Planning Commission reviewed and voted to receive and file the city’s 2025 General Plan Annual Progress Report (APR) and the 2025 Housing Element Annual Progress Report, and directed staff to forward the documents to City Council.
Rachel (planning staff) explained the purpose and statutory requirement for the General Plan APR: state law requires a local legislative body to review and accept an annual progress report on the status of the general plan and implementation of its policies. The APR lists city actions taken during 2025 to implement the plan’s mandatory elements (land use, housing, circulation, safety, conservation, open space and noise). Rachel said staff will submit the APR to the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research (LCI) and the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) after Planning Commission review.
Jacqueline presented the Housing Element APR, which summarized entitlement and building‑permit activity in 2025: 15 entitlement approvals and 99 building permits issued, mostly driven by The Commons project (80 units issued permits in December). Jacqueline explained RHNA accounting details, noting the city has exceeded its above‑moderate allocation but still has remaining numbers in very low, low and moderate categories; very low/extremely low/acutely low accounting has been recently adjusted by HCD.
Commissioners requested clearer labeling of projects in the APR (for example, Craftsman’s Corner and site references on pages 5, 9 and 10) and asked staff to clean up language, capitalization and definitions where state templates use inconsistent terminology. Several commissioners urged the APR be used to engage residents about long‑range goals and to explore public‑private partnerships for workforce housing; one commissioner suggested potential sites (Old Town vacant site, De Anza Park parcels, Craftsman’s Corner annexation) as places to consider for focused housing strategies.
The Commission voted to receive and file both reports and forward the General Plan APR and the Housing Element APR to City Council with requested clarifications and edits.
