The General Plan

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The General Plan Library

Our namesake: a living library of California's municipal General Plans — the land-use blueprint every city and county must adopt. Track what each jurisdiction is actually permitting and building, from official state open data across all 534 of them.

534 Jurisdictions tracked CA cities & counties
160,611 Units permitted statewide, 2025
477 Cities
391 Plans linked documents & summaries
Housing units permitted statewide · by year

Source: California HCD Housing Element APR

Where the building is happening

California jurisdictions by total housing units permitted since 2018.

Most units permitted since 2018 · top jurisdictions
Los Angeles 256,073 San Diego 52,381 Sacramento 28,883 San Francisco 23,728 San Jose 18,273 Irvine 17,421 Riverside County 15,314 Los Angeles County 15,204 Fresno 14,746 Oakland 14,179 Bakersfield 14,174 Roseville 12,137

HCD APR · click a jurisdiction for its full record

Browse every jurisdiction

Search California's cities and counties; open any one for its General Plan record and housing/development trend.

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    Permitting and entitlement figures are aggregated from the California Department of Housing and Community Development's Housing Element Annual Progress Report (APR) open data (data.ca.gov), self-reported by jurisdictions, 2018 onward. Official plan documents and Verifier-checked element summaries are being linked jurisdiction by jurisdiction. Source: data.ca.gov.