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Santa Rosa General Plan

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

6,961 Units permitted since 2018

861 Permitted in 2025

11,351 Units entitled since 2018

9 Years tracked

Santa Rosa · housing units permitted by year

1708

201820192020202020212022202320242025

Source: California HCD Housing Element APR

Housing & development by year

Housing applications progress in Santa Rosa, by reporting year. Source: HCD APR.
Year	Units permitted	Units entitled	Projects
2025	861	1,271	420
2024	297	888	257
2023	1,708	1,117	399
2022	1,157	2,399	566
2021	1,404	570	702
2020	629	1,685	598
2020	629	1,685	598
2019	447	1,583	525
2018	458	153	548

The plan document

Read Santa Rosa's official General Plan: Santa Rosa General Plan → · 2025-06-03 · 2025-06-03

Elements

General Plan 2050, Chapter 2 Land Use and Economic Development → Land Use 2025-06-03
General Plan 2050, Chapter 7 Housing Element (Adopted February 2023, revised June 2025) → Housing 2023-02
General Plan 2050, Chapter 3 Circulation, Open Space, Conservation, and Greenhouse Gas Reduction → Conservation 2025-06-03
General Plan 2050, Chapter 3 Circulation, Open Space, Conservation, and Greenhouse Gas Reduction → Open Space 2025-06-03
General Plan 2050, Chapter 5 Safety, Climate Resilience, Noise and Public Services and Facilities → Noise 2025-06-03
General Plan 2050, Chapter 5 Safety, Climate Resilience, Noise and Public Services and Facilities → Safety 2025-06-03
General Plan 2050, Chapter 6 Health, Equity, Environmental Justice and Parks → Environmental Justice 2025-06-03

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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