The General Plan

City · Santa Cruz County · California

Santa Cruz General Plan

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

2,392 Units permitted since 2018
424 Permitted in 2025
4,096 Units entitled since 2018
8 Years tracked
Santa Cruz · housing units permitted by year

Source: California HCD Housing Element APR

Housing & development by year

Housing applications progress in Santa Cruz, by reporting year. Source: HCD APR.
YearUnits permittedUnits entitledProjects
2025 424 1,423 187
2024 671 389 245
2023 338 890 184
2022 264 404 191
2021 311 445 191
2020 79 126 141
2019 155 117 151
2018 150 302 159

The plan document

Read Santa Cruz's official General Plan: Santa Cruz General Plan → · 2012-06 · 2024

Elements

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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