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Council accepts 2025 general plan and housing reports; staff says ADU production keeps the city on track for RHNA capacity
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Summary
Council voted to receive, file and submit the 2025 annual general plan and housing reports. Staff highlighted 52 ADU permits in 2025, rental-assistance spending, site‑inventory capacity for RHNA, and an approach using the regional SCAG ADU affordability model to categorize ADUs by income level.
The City Council unanimously approved receipt and filing of the city's 2025 Annual General Plan and Housing Reports and directed staff to file the documents with the state Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) and the Governor's Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation (LCI).
Staff said the city processed 52 accessory dwelling unit (ADU) permits in 2025 and reported rental-assistance and rehabilitation expenditures (roughly $229,000 for rental assistance to 28 households and $233,000 for housing rehabilitation to seven households). Planning staff used the SCAG regional ADU affordability model to allocate the year's ADUs across income categories, explaining that recent state law (AB 906) tightened the evidence required to count ADUs as extremely low or very-low income without deed restrictions.
Using the SCAG model and Temple City's permit totals, staff said 15% of the 52 ADUs could be characterized as extremely low (about eight units under the model), with other units distributed across very low, low, moderate and above-moderate categories. Staff also noted the city had processed 251 ADU units to date in the current housing cycle and expected to meet the ADU production goal by the next reporting year.
On the sites inventory and no-net-loss review, staff said one site (4450 Temple City Boulevard) is under construction as a four-unit attached housing project; the inventory was updated to reflect a one-unit projection increase and staff concluded the inventory still demonstrates capacity to meet RHNA allocations across income categories.
The council voted to accept the reports, find the annual report exempt from CEQA information-collection provisions, and direct staff to file them with HCD and LCI. Councilmembers praised stafffor work on ADU counting and for updating zoning to preserve community character while addressing housing goals.
Why it matters: The report documents housing production, use of local housing funds, and the city's approach to meeting state RHNA expectations; the ADU-count methodology will affect how Temple City demonstrates capacity for lower-income housing categories going forward.
Next steps: Staff will proceed with the 2026 work plan tasks highlighted in the report, including objective design standards, subdivision and ADU code updates, and a development-fee study.
