TO: Napa County Planning Commission
FROM: Brian D. Bordona - Director of Planning, Building & Environmental Services
REPORT BY: Trevor Hawkes - Supervising Planner
SUBJECT: Revisions to the Housing Element Amendment of the Napa County General Plan for the Sixth Cycle Planning Period (2023 - 2031)
RECOMMENDATION
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PROPOSED GENERAL PLAN AMENDMENT: 2023 - 2031 HOUSING ELEMENT UPDATE
CEQA Status: On January 24, 2023, the Napa County Board of Supervisors certified the Final Environmental Impact Report (FEIR) for the Sixth Cycle Housing Element Update. The FEIR was prepared in compliance with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), the State CEQA Guidelines (California Code of Regulations Section 15000 et seq.), and Napa County Local Guidelines Implementing CEQA, as well as relevant case law. The revisions proposed in this hearing would not add or remove sites for multifamily housing from the final adopted Sixth Cycle Housing Element Update's Housing Sites Inventory. Likewise, no revisions are proposed which would alter or modify regulations in regard to density of development, scale of buildings, infrastructure, land uses or location which were not analyzed under the FEIR. For this reason, no subsequent or supplemental EIR is needed for these amendments, in that no substantial evidence exists showing that the changes in the project will involve any new significant environmental effects or a substantial increase in the severity of previously identified environmental effects.
Request: The Sixth Cycle Housing Element Update (HEU) for the 2023-2032 Planning Period was a County-initiated amendment to the Napa County General Plan Housing Element. The General Plan amendment updated the County's Housing Element, including goals, objectives, policies, and implementation programs that addressed the maintenance, preservation, improvement, and development of housing in unincorporated Napa County. In addition, the HEU identified sites appropriate for the developme...
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