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Council hears 2025 General Plan and housing-element progress report; staff: permits far short of RHNA pace
Summary
Senior Planner Eliana Munoz told council the city issued 85 residential building permits in 2025 and has an RHNA allocation of 5,257 units for 2021–2029; councilmembers described the city as "woefully behind" the pace needed to meet state targets and asked staff to continue facilitating housing production.
Senior Planner Eliana Munoz presented the city’s 2025 General Plan and Housing Element annual progress report, summarizing work across land use, economic development, circulation, safety, parks and the housing element. She said Monterey Park’s RHNA allocation for 2021–2029 is 5,257 units and reported that the city issued 85 building permits in 2025 (74 ADUs and 11 single‑family units), bringing total units issued in the RHNA cycle to 305 to date. Munoz said the city also has more than 1,000 units in the pipeline that are not yet ready for approvals.
Council members pressed staff on the gap between the state allocation and the pace of local permitting. One councilmember said the city would need to facilitate roughly 570 units per year to stay on track for the RHNA target and called current permit counts "far below" that pace. Munoz provided historical annual permit counts (2021: 10; 2022: 67; 2023: 67; 2024: 45; 2025: 85) and noted that most recent permits were ADUs rather than large multi‑unit developments.
The council voted unanimously to receive and file the report and to direct staff to forward a copy of the annual report to the Governor's Office of Planning and Research and to the California Department of Housing and Community Development by the deadline noted in the staff report.
