The General Plan

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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.

2,244 Units permitted since 2018
454 Permitted in 2025
793 Units entitled since 2018
8 Years tracked
Shafter · housing units permitted by year

Source: California HCD Housing Element APR

Housing & development by year

Housing applications progress in Shafter, by reporting year. Source: HCD APR.
YearUnits permittedUnits entitledProjects
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 → · 2005 · 2024

Elements · 2 Verifier-checked summaries

  • 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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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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