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Associate Planner Trish Turner presents Lake County 2025 progress reports; staff says 39 affordable units were omitted from a 2023 filing
Summary
Lake County staff presented the 2025 general plan and housing element annual progress reports and told the Board they will submit them by the April 1 deadline required under Government Code 65400. Staff discovered 39 deed-restricted affordable units that had been omitted from the 2023 report and are working with HCD to correct the counts.
The Lake County Board of Supervisors heard a presentation on the county’s 2025 general plan and housing element annual progress reports and was told staff will submit both reports to the state by the April 1 deadline.
“Submitting these by April 1st deadline is a state requirement under Government Code 65400, and that keeps us eligible for vital housing and infrastructure grants,” Associate Planner Trish Turner said, presenting the reports and the planning work incorporated into them.
Turner told the Board the 2025 reports draw on the county’s 2008 adopted general plan while incorporating work started this year on the Lake County General Plan 2050, a newly adopted climate adaptation plan, zone and code amendments to streamline housing approvals, draft local area plans, a housing site inventory update and a housing action implementation plan. She said those actions will be reflected in the annual progress reports submitted to the state.
Turner also reported a numerical omission in a prior filing: Call Your Avenue Apartments, a 40-unit project with 39 units deed-restricted for low- and very low-income households for 50 years, was not included in the county’s 2023 housing element annual progress report. “Trish did discover an omission in a past year's report,” a presenter told the Board, and Turner said staff is coordinating with HCD to update the county’s numbers after the statewide 2025 housing element reporting process is complete.
Supervisor Owen asked whether the county has current homeless-population numbers and whether those figures drive required responses in the housing documents. Turner replied that the county relies on the annual Point-in-Time (PIT) count typically conducted in January and that staff had not yet received final PIT results.
Supervisor Sabatier provided preliminary PIT counts, saying last year’s total was about 317 and this year’s total about 328, and noting an increase in unsheltered veterans from 14 to 20. She cautioned that single-year PIT comparisons are sensitive to conditions such as weather and that the numbers reported were preliminary.
The Board opened the item for public comment; no members of the public in the room offered remarks. No formal action was required for the submission, and the Board thanked staff for the update. Staff indicated it will submit the annual progress reports by the state deadline and continue coordinating with HCD to correct the previously omitted affordable units.
The hearing moved on without a vote on the reports.
