Dixon Planners Will Review General Plan Update On Tuesday

On Feb. 4, 2000, the City Council by Resolution, became a member of the Solano County sub Region, to administer the Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) for Solano County in the 6th cycle Housing Element update (2023–2031). MaryAnne Courville was Mayor at that time and she was succeeded by Jack Batchelor. The County as a whole was assigned 10,992 units throughout the four income ranges to plan for as part of the Housing Element updates. Swearing Ceremony; Dixon Police Chief Don Mort By Mayor MaryAnne Courville. Photo by Ben Edokpayi.

Dixon Planners Will Review General Plan Update On Tuesday

Special Report By Ben Edokpayi Staff Writer ©

Dixon, CA — A review of the City’s Housing Element (2023–2031) and recommendation on what steps to take will be the main topic on the agenda at the Tuesday Session for City Planners scheduled for Dixon City Hall.

Unlike other Elements of the General Plan, which may be updated at the discretion of each jurisdiction, California Government Code Sections 65580–65589.8 requires local jurisdictions to update the Housing Element of their General Plans every eight years, subject to the review and approval of the State Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD).

The City’s current Housing Element (“5th Cycle”) was adopted on May 26, 2015 and covers the time span from 2015 to 2023.

https://www.solanocounty.com/depts/ar/home.asp

In a draft document Staff recommends that the Planning Commission review the Draft Housing Element, accept any public comments and by motion vote to Authorize staff to incorporate both public and Planning Commission comments; and 2. Direct staff to submit the Draft Housing Element to State HCD following the conclusion of public comments.

As part of the General Plan update, the Housing Element was not updated, since it was anticipated to be completed before the timeframe of the 6th cycle and there were plans to join the region-wide effort to update housing elements for several reasons that include the Coronavirus epidemic.

In December 2021, HCD approved the Solano Subregion 6th cycle RHNA plan and methodology, which established the housing needs that each jurisdiction in the subregion needed to plan for as part of the 6th Housing Element cycle.

For Dixon, the total RHNA assigned is 416 units (of the 10,992 units assigned to Solano County as a whole).

This same presentation by Community Development Director Raffi Boloyan and Jennifer Gastelum from Orange County based Consultant Placework will be on the September 20, 2022 CIty Council agenda as well.

https://placeworks.com/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/bipartisan-infrastructure-law/

https://www.solanocounty.com/civicax/filebank/blobdload.aspx?BlobID=20139

https://opr.ca.gov/ceqa/tribal/

https://ceqanet.opr.ca.gov/

https://www.solanocounty.com/civicax/filebank/blobdload.aspx?BlobID=20072

This is a below the fold lead in the 9/9/2022 Dixon Tribune Edition. The Tribune is the Newspaper of Record for the city of Dixon, Population 21,000. The town was formerly known as Dickson.