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Foster City General Plan
What Foster City, San Mateo County, California is permitting and building, tracked from official state open data. The General Plan is Foster City's long-range blueprint for land use, housing, and growth.
Source: California HCD Housing Element APR
Housing & development by year
| Year | Units permitted | Units entitled | Projects |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28 | 0 | 14 |
| 2024 | 13 | 1 | 12 |
| 2023 | 23 | 0 | 12 |
| 2022 | 18 | 0 | 18 |
| 2021 | 45 | 4 | 22 |
| 2020 | 34 | 0 | 15 |
| 2019 | 22 | 0 | 10 |
| 2018 | 0 | 92 | 4 |
The plan document
Read Foster City's official General Plan: Foster City General Plan →
Elements · 2 Verifier-checked summaries
- General Plan Chapter 3 - Land Use and Circulation Element (Adopted February 1, 2016) → Land Use 2016-02-01
Foster City's Land Use and Circulation Element, adopted February 1, 2016, focuses on past, present, and future development issues affecting the City, establishing a pattern for land use and clear standards for population density and development intensity for each proposed land use. It ties the timing, amount, type, and location of development directly to the traffic, service, and infrastructure demands that development generates. Its primary concerns include maintaining the integrity and high-quality living environment of the City's residential neighborhoods and responding appropriately to longer-term land use and circulation needs.
Verifier-checked · grounded in the official document
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Foster City's 2023-2031 Housing Element provides a roadmap for meeting the City's growth and housing challenges, identifying existing housing conditions and community needs, setting goals, and creating a plan for additional housing balanced with the community's desire to retain what makes Foster City a great place to live, work, and play. As an integral part of the General Plan, it identifies the community's housing needs; states goals and objectives for housing production, rehabilitation, and conservation; and defines the policies and programs to achieve them. Because the shortage of housing is a matter of statewide concern, the State Department of Housing and Community Development must certify each jurisdiction's Housing Element upon adoption.
Verifier-checked · grounded in the official document
- General Plan Chapter 3 - Land Use and Circulation Element (Adopted February 1, 2016) → Circulation & Mobility 2016-02-01
- General Plan Chapter 5 - Parks and Open Space Element (Adopted November 3, 2025) → Open Space 2025-11-03
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.