General Plan / Coastal Land Use Plan 2025 Progress Report
Summary
SCH Number
2026030269
Public Agency
City of Goleta
Document Title
General Plan / Coastal Land Use Plan 2025 Progress Report
Document Type
NOE - Notice of Exemption
Received
Posted
3/6/2026
Document Description
2025 annual report regarding the status of the City’s General Plan/Coastal Land Use Plan. overnment Code Section 65400 requires the City to prepare a report annually regarding the status of the City's General Plan/ Coastal Land Use Plan (General Plan) and provide the annual report to the Governor's Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation (LCI) and the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD). The General Plan 2025 Progress Report is organized into three sections with five appendices. A summary of the Progress Report is provided below. Section 1, Introduction, summarizes the report purpose, the content of the General Plan, lists important dates, and identifies the location of the implementation actions and programs. The introduction also provides an overview of the General Plan Guidelines, as provided by the LCI, and the degree to which the City's General Plan complies with them. Section 2, General Plan Amendment Status, reviews the content and status of General Plan Amendments, including applicant-initiated requests. Adopted amendments and initiated amendments that are in progress are identified. Section 3, General Plan Implementation Progress, identifies the progress the City has made toward implementing the actions and programs of the General Plan during the reporting period. The Regional Housing Needs Allocation status update is provided in Section 3.10: Housing Element Tables. Appendix A is a summary table tracking all General Plan Implementation Actions. Appendix B includes the signed Planning Commission recommendation resolution and the City Council Report approval resolution. Appendix C is a copy of the online annual housing survey that City staff will submit to HCD. Appendix D is the Housing Successor Annual Report Regarding the Low- and Moderate-Income Housing Asset Trust Fund (LMIHAF) for Fiscal Year 2024-25. Appendix E is an informational map denoting affordable housing units located within the City in 2025.
Contact Information
Name
Molly Cunningham
Agency Name
City of Goleta
Job Title
Assistant Planner
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Phone
Location
Cities
Goleta
Counties
Santa Barbara
Regions
Citywide
Cross Streets
Citywide
Notice of Exemption
Exempt Status
Other
Type, Section or Code
CEQA Guidelines, §15060(c)(3); §15378(b)(5); §15061(b)(3)
Reasons for Exemption
This General Plan 2025 Progress Report is not subject to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to Section 15060(c)(3) of the CEQA Guidelines (Title 14, Chapter 3 of the California Code of Regulations) because the activity is not a project as defined in Section 15378(b )(5) as an organizational or administrative activity by government that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes in the environment. The General Plan 2025 Progress Report is also exempt from CEQA pursuant to Section 15061 (b )(3) of the CEQA Guidelines because the activity is covered by the general rule which exempts activities that can be seen with certainty to have no possibility for causing a significant effect on the environment.
County Clerk
Santa Barbara
Attachments
Notice of Exemption
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