The General Plan

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Palmdale General Plan

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

1,831 Units permitted since 2018
188 Permitted in 2025
3,952 Units entitled since 2018
8 Years tracked
Palmdale · housing units permitted by year

Source: California HCD Housing Element APR

Housing & development by year

Housing applications progress in Palmdale, by reporting year. Source: HCD APR.
YearUnits permittedUnits entitledProjects
2025 188 1,217 336
2024 151 1,046 324
2023 312 31 468
2022 363 1,019 419
2021 437 558 408
2020 88 0 9
2019 149 0 170
2018 143 81 114

The plan document

Read Palmdale's official General Plan: Palmdale General Plan → · 2022-09-21 · 2025

Elements · 2 Verifier-checked summaries

  • Chapter 5, Land Use and Community Design, provides a long-term vision, goals, and policies for Palmdale over the next 20 to 30 years, focused on accommodating change and growth while preserving and enhancing the features that make the city desirable. It was prepared to meet State General Plan law (Government Code Section 65302(a)) and has the broadest scope of all the required general plan elements, regulating how land in the city is used. Topics covered include land use designations and goals and policies addressing preservation of existing neighborhoods, development of new neighborhoods with varied housing opportunities, and new areas for employment, shopping, and mixed-use development.

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  • The 2021-2029 Housing Element represents the City of Palmdale's effort to fulfill the requirements of State Housing Element law, and it covers the planning period of October 15, 2021, to October 15, 2029. It notes that the California State Legislature has identified the attainment of a decent home and suitable living environment for every Californian as the State's major housing goal, and that the Legislature has mandated that all cities and counties prepare a housing element as part of the comprehensive General Plan.

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  • Chapter 11: Conservation → Conservation 2022-09-21
  • Chapter 16: Noise → Noise 2022-09-21
  • Chapter 13: Safety → Safety 2022-09-21
  • Chapter 9: Equitable and Healthy Communities → Environmental Justice 2022-09-21

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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