The General Plan

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Costa Mesa General Plan

What Costa Mesa, Orange County, California is permitting and building, tracked from official state open data. The General Plan is Costa Mesa's long-range blueprint for land use, housing, and growth.

1,354 Units permitted since 2018
232 Permitted in 2025
1,605 Units entitled since 2018
8 Years tracked
Costa Mesa · housing units permitted by year

Source: California HCD Housing Element APR

Housing & development by year

Housing applications progress in Costa Mesa, by reporting year. Source: HCD APR.
YearUnits permittedUnits entitledProjects
2025 232 346 204
2024 123 16 192
2023 114 30 118
2022 156 4 105
2021 74 1,065 161
2020 275 8 109
2019 198 61 233
2018 182 75 70

The plan document

Read Costa Mesa's official General Plan: Costa Mesa General Plan → · 2016-06-21 · 2024-05-07

Elements

Element summaries are generated from the official document text and held unless every fact is grounded in the source. Links open the jurisdiction's own published documents.

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