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Monterey County General Plan
What Monterey County, California is permitting and building, tracked from official state open data. The General Plan is Monterey County'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 | 269 | 361 | 340 |
| 2024 | 165 | 326 | 325 |
| 2023 | 169 | 135 | 281 |
| 2022 | 186 | 5 | 178 |
| 2021 | 95 | 101 | 222 |
| 2020 | 276 | 64 | 367 |
| 2020 | 276 | 64 | 367 |
| 2019 | 223 | 91 | 500 |
| 2018 | 234 | 71 | 472 |
The plan document
Read Monterey County's official General Plan: Monterey County General Plan →
Elements · 2 Verifier-checked summaries
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The Land Use Element's open space goal (LU-8) encourages the provision of open space lands as part of all types of development, including residential, commercial, industrial, and public. Its policies limit building coverage on land carrying the open space designation to 25% of the subject property, direct clustering as a means of maximizing permanent open space within new development, and allow on-site development density credit for developable lands placed in permanent open space. The element also calls for open space lands to be integrated into an area-wide open space network and supports the creation of private, nonprofit land trusts and conservation organizations to receive development rights on preserved lands.
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- 2010 Monterey County General Plan - Chapter 2.0 Circulation Element → Circulation & Mobility 2010-10-26
- 2010 Monterey County General Plan - Chapter 4.0 Safety Element (combines safety and noise) → Safety 2010-10-26
Monterey County's Safety Element combines the state-mandated safety and noise elements. It establishes policies and programs to protect the public from risks associated with seismic, geologic, flood, and wildfire hazards, and it identifies sources of noise while providing policies addressing existing and foreseeable noise problems. For flood risk, it identifies uses such as agriculture, passive to low intensity recreation, and open space/conservation as the most acceptable land uses in the 100-year floodplain to lessen the potential for loss of life, injury, property damage, and economic and social dislocations.
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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.