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Menlo Park General Plan

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

2,771 Units permitted since 2018

272 Permitted in 2025

4,619 Units entitled since 2018

8 Years tracked

Menlo Park · housing units permitted by year

869

20182019202020212022202320242025

Source: California HCD Housing Element APR

Housing & development by year

Housing applications progress in Menlo Park, by reporting year. Source: HCD APR.
Year	Units permitted	Units entitled	Projects
2025	272	1,116	226
2024	201	97	163
2023	869	514	125
2022	837	1,900	90
2021	96	890	59
2020	256	38	43
2019	196	12	33
2018	44	52	46

The plan document

Read Menlo Park's official General Plan: Menlo Park General Plan → · 2016-11-29 · 2024-09-24

Elements

Land Use Element → Land Use 2016-11-29
Housing Element 2023-2031 (6th Cycle) → Housing 2023-01-31
Circulation Element → Circulation & Mobility 2016-11-29
Open Space, Noise, Conservation & Safety Elements → Conservation 2013-05-21
Open Space, Noise, Conservation & Safety Elements → Open Space 2013-05-21
Open Space, Noise, Conservation & Safety Elements → Noise 2013-05-21
Open Space, Noise, Conservation & Safety Elements (Safety updated 2024) → Safety 2024-09-24
Environmental Justice Element → Environmental Justice 2024-09-24

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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