The General Plan

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Santa Maria General Plan

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

4,496 Units permitted since 2018
930 Permitted in 2025
3,938 Units entitled since 2018
8 Years tracked
Santa Maria · housing units permitted by year

Source: California HCD Housing Element APR

Housing & development by year

Housing applications progress in Santa Maria, by reporting year. Source: HCD APR.
YearUnits permittedUnits entitledProjects
2025 930 150 783
2024 482 136 676
2023 454 2,040 678
2022 1,176 229 718
2021 458 571 550
2020 260 413 536
2019 494 311 327
2018 242 88 279

The plan document

Read Santa Maria's official General Plan: Santa Maria General Plan → · 1991 · 2023-12-05

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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