Monterey General Plan

The plan document

Read Monterey's official General Plan: Monterey General Plan → · 2005 · 2024-07-16

Elements · 2 Verifier-checked summaries

• Land Use Element → Land Use 2024-07-16

  The Land Use Element provides a comprehensive framework to guide development and conservation in Monterey, establishing land use classifications, development intensity standards, and goals and policies to guide decision-making for the next 10 to 20 years. It envisions a series of distinctive, walkable, mixed use neighborhoods, each with a mix of housing, shops, services, jobs, and amenities and a public realm that promotes walking, bicycling, and use of public transit, focused on Downtown/East Downtown, Cannery Row/Lighthouse Avenue, North Fremont Street, and Fort Ord/Ryan Ranch. Other areas, including parks, open space, educational institutions, and military installations, are not anticipated to change significantly in character or intensity. Buildout under the General Plan could result in up to approximately 1,995 new jobs, 5,800 new homes, and 10,125 new residents by 2031.

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• Certified Housing Element 2023-2031 (6th Cycle) → Housing 2024-07-16

  This 2023-2031 Housing Element establishes housing objectives, policies, and programs in response to community housing conditions and needs, prepared to respond to current and near-term future housing needs and to provide a framework for the community's longer-term approach. It emphasizes that housing affordability in Monterey County and California is a critical issue, noting the typical Monterey home value in August 2022 exceeded $1.1 million, a 54 percent increase over the prior decade. The overall focus is to preserve and enhance community life, character, and serenity through adequate housing opportunities for people at all income levels while being sensitive to Monterey's historic character. A specific purpose is to ensure capacity for new housing to meet the RHNA of 3,654 housing units at all income levels for the 2023-2031 planning period.

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• Circulation Element → Circulation & Mobility 2024-07-16
• Conservation Element → Conservation 2005
• Open Space Element → Open Space 2005
• Noise Element → Noise 2005
• Safety Element → Safety 2024-07-16
• Compiled Monterey General Plan (2005 GP reformatted with Monterey 2031 updates) → Other 2024-07-16

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