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Planning & Development Services helps plan a sustainable, equitable land use future for the unincorporated area. Through plans that protect natural resources and inspections that support safe buildings, we protect our communities. We involve stakeholders in decisions about housing, economic development and the environment and work with residents to help them meet the standards that keep our neighborhoods and natural areas healthy and beautiful.

$14.5M

Protecting the Climate & Natural Resources

Supporting
How You Live,
Work & Recreate

$12.3M

Empowering
the Community

$3.7M

Infrastructure
Safety

$31M

$14.5M

Protecting the Climate & Natural Resources

Infrastructure Safety

$2.5M

$153K

$202K

$2.2M

$900K

$3.4M

$1.8M

$1M

$500K

Implement the Environmental Justice part of the General Plan to help underserved communities

Implement SB 743 governing new home development locations

Sustainably guiding land use planning

Promote green building and solar energy use

Increase the use
of native plants and preserve and expand native habitat in landscaped
areas

Manage groundwater sustainability (SGMA)

Open Space Acquisition and preservation of agricultural land (PACE) 443 acres

Preserve land to protect species (MSCP and
North County
MSCP)

Review 500 discretionary projects to ensure communities are designed with safe and appropriate infrastructure, emergency response services, community character,
and parks and trails

Conduct over 40,000 building inspections to ensure structures are built in accordance with approved building plans and applicable building safety codes

Complete 15,000 plan reviews to ensure buildings meet safety, sustainability, and energy efficiency requirements per building code

Update wildland fire, fire protection and CEQA Guidelines to protect the health and wellbeing of everyone in the region by ensuring new development addresses and mitigates the impacts related to wildfires and other environmental effects

CAP Update to meet GHG targets

$1.9M

Installing EV charging stations

$31M

Supporting How You Live, Work & Recreate

Empowering the Community

Train team members on equity, diversity, and inclusion topics

Involve the community in our programs through meeting and online options

Data-based tracking of community needs

Focus on community outreach and engagement

Monitor changes
in regulations, develop policy and coordinate with other jurisdictions

Ensure fiscal responsibility and stability

Translate information into eight languages

Cannabis ordinance development

Ensure safe, sustainable communities and preserve natural resources in the unincorporated area

Support housing affordability and development
of affordable housing projects

Abatement
of life safety and public nuisance issues

Permit process innovation and business process reengineering to reduce processing times, costs to applicants and to improve the review process and increasing transparency

Removing barriers
to housing production

$771K

$267K

$600K

$253K

$418K

$887K

$148K

$269K

$5.6M

$421K

$40K

$625K

$5.7M

Review final engineering for construction and development projects such as grading and road improvements to ensure communities are designed safely and with appropriate infrastructure and improved water quality

$9.2M

$400K

$6M

$8.1M

$7.1M