The General Plan

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El Cajon General Plan

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

1,231 Units permitted since 2018
210 Permitted in 2025
781 Units entitled since 2018
8 Years tracked
El Cajon · housing units permitted by year

Source: California HCD Housing Element APR

Housing & development by year

Housing applications progress in El Cajon, by reporting year. Source: HCD APR.
YearUnits permittedUnits entitledProjects
2025 210 99 164
2024 210 175 151
2023 140 84 119
2022 71 32 95
2021 155 132 87
2020 45 113 81
2019 232 110 231
2018 168 36 159

The plan document

Read El Cajon's official General Plan: El Cajon General Plan → · 1991-01-08 · 2021-07-27

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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