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San Benito County General Plan

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

1,596 Units permitted since 2018
278 Permitted in 2025
59 Units entitled since 2018
8 Years tracked
San Benito County · housing units permitted by year

Source: California HCD Housing Element APR

Housing & development by year

Housing applications progress in San Benito County, by reporting year. Source: HCD APR.
YearUnits permittedUnits entitledProjects
2025 278 0 202
2024 273 0 262
2023 318 0 186
2022 216 12 196
2021 120 0 154
2020 0 0 209
2019 213 47 167
2018 178 0 218

The plan document

Read San Benito County's official General Plan: San Benito County General Plan → · 2015-07-21 · 2025-05-20

Elements · 1 Verifier-checked summary

  • San Benito County's 2023-2031 (6th Cycle) Housing Element includes a Policy Plan (Chapter 6) that addresses the County's identified housing needs with goals, policies, and programs aimed at providing additional housing opportunities, removing governmental constraints to affordable housing, improving the condition of existing housing, and providing equal housing opportunities for all residents. Its candidate housing sites analysis (Appendix B) accommodates a Regional Housing Needs Allocation totaling 754 housing units, comprised of 246 very-low income units, 198 low income units, 103 moderate income units, and 207 above moderate income units.

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