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San Dimas staff present zoning amendments to meet housing element; council questions discretionary items and legal risk
Summary
City planning staff presented Municipal Code Text Amendment 23-03 to align zoning with the city's certified housing element; staff outlined density bonus updates, lot-consolidation incentives, and allowances for supportive housing and group homes while council members probed what is discretionary and warned of the builder's remedy risk.
San Dimas planning staff presented a municipal code text amendment (23-03) on Aug. 13 to update zoning and subdivision rules required by the city's housing element and state law. The amendments would revise the city's density-bonus regulations, create a lot-consolidation incentive, and allow certain supportive and low-barrier housing types by-right in specified zones.
Louis Trico, director of Community Development, told the council the housing element covering 2021'2029 was certified by the California Department of Housing and Community Development in October 2022 and that the current cycle allocates 1,248 units to San Dimas. Planning Manager Marcos Mills detailed five programs the code changes would…
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