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Shafter General Plan
What Shafter, Kern County, California is permitting and building, tracked from official state open data. The General Plan is Shafter's long-range blueprint for land use, housing, and growth.
Source: California HCD Housing Element APR
Housing & development by year
| Year | Units permitted | Units entitled | Projects |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 454 | 0 | 849 |
| 2024 | 290 | 0 | 596 |
| 2023 | 182 | 0 | 450 |
| 2022 | 214 | 0 | 514 |
| 2021 | 433 | 433 | 631 |
| 2020 | 311 | 0 | 427 |
| 2019 | 207 | 207 | 283 |
| 2018 | 153 | 153 | 299 |
The plan document
Read Shafter's official General Plan: Shafter General Plan →
Elements · 2 Verifier-checked summaries
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Shafter's Land Use Program is the cornerstone of the General Plan, setting forth the city's fundamental land use philosophy and directing development to the most suitable locations while maintaining the community's economic, social, physical, and environmental health and vitality. Referred to as the Land Use Program in the Shafter General Plan, it has the broadest scope of the seven mandatory General Plan elements and synthesizes all General Plan land use issues, ensuring the community achieves land use patterns and standards for development intensity and population density consistent with its vision, goals, and objectives.
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Shafter's Housing Program is an eight-year plan for the 2023-2031 period that addresses balancing employment and housing opportunities, matching housing supply and demand, preserving affordability for all segments of the population, preserving housing stock quality, and situating future housing growth near existing and future public transit infrastructure. It focuses on five strategies: conserving and improving existing affordable housing, providing adequate housing sites, assisting in the development of affordable housing, removing governmental and other constraints, and promoting equal housing opportunities. Its goals include providing a diversity of development opportunities, housing affordable to all economic segments of the community, and equal housing opportunities for all residents of Shafter.
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