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Palm Desert General Plan

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

3,777 Units permitted since 2018

484 Permitted in 2025

3,752 Units entitled since 2018

8 Years tracked

Palm Desert · housing units permitted by year

1537

20182019202020212022202320242025

Source: California HCD Housing Element APR

Housing & development by year

Housing applications progress in Palm Desert, by reporting year. Source: HCD APR.
Year	Units permitted	Units entitled	Projects
2025	484	546	293
2024	1,537	853	728
2023	1,092	334	609
2022	452	1,681	623
2021	160	338	206
2020	10	0	37
2019	42	0	57
2018	0	0	49

The plan document

Read Palm Desert's official General Plan: Palm Desert General Plan → · 2016-11-10 · 2022-09-29

Elements

Palm Desert General Plan (Land Use and Community Character Element) → Land Use 2016-11-10
Palm Desert Combined General Plan and 2021-2029 Housing Element → Housing 2022-09-29
Palm Desert General Plan (Mobility Element) → Circulation & Mobility 2016-11-10
Palm Desert General Plan (Conservation / Environmental Resources Element) → Conservation 2016-11-10
Palm Desert General Plan (Open Space / Environmental Resources Element) → Open Space 2016-11-10
Palm Desert General Plan (Noise Element) → Noise 2016-11-10
Palm Desert General Plan (Safety Element) → Safety 2016-11-10

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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