Residential Infill Priority Area Overlay Zone (RIPAOZ) Project

Residential Infill Priority Area Overlay Zone (RIPAOZ) Project

The City of Calimesa is proposing a “Residential Infill Priority Area Overlay Zone” (RIPAOZ) on 36 properties (proposed Project). The City was awarded a grant by the State of California Department of Housing and Community Development (“HCD”) SB 2 program to prepare the RIPAOZ Project in order to up-zone certain residential properties identified by the City to allow for higher density development including duplexes, townhomes, condos, and a limited amount of apartments by-right. The City was further awarded a supplementary grant by HCD Local Early Action Grants program, also referred to as the “LEAP” program, to assist in the preparation and adoption of planning documents and process improvements that accelerate housing production and facilitate compliance to implement the sixth cycle of the regional housing need assessment. The Project will revise the existing municipal code and amend the general plan to include an overlay zone allowing for higher residential density. The Project does not include any implementing development. Thus, no specific development projects are being proposed at this time. No on-site or off-site infrastructure improvements are being identified at this time, and no specific timelines for development of the sites is known at this time.

Calimesa

Riverside

Citywide

California Air Resources Board (ARB), California Department of Conservation (DOC), California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE), California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD), California Department of Parks and Recreation, California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC), California Department of Transportation, District 8 (DOT), California Department of Water Resources (DWR), California Governor's Office of Emergency Services (OES), California Highway Patrol (CHP), California Natural Resources Agency, California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Santa Ana Region 8 (RWQCB), Office of Historic Preservation, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Drinking Water, California Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC), California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Inland Deserts Region 6 (CDFW)

California Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC), California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Inland Deserts Region 6 (CDFW)

Residential (Units 2156, Acres 87.26)

General Plan Amendment, Rezone

Aesthetics, Agriculture and Forestry Resources, Air Quality, Biological Resources, Coastal Zone, Cultural Resources, Drainage/Absorption, Economics/Jobs, Energy, Flood Plain/Flooding, Geology/Soils, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Growth Inducement, Hazards & Hazardous Materials, Hydrology/Water Quality, Land Use/Planning, Mandatory Findings of Significance, Mineral Resources, Noise, Population/Housing, Public Services, Recreation, Schools/Universities, Septic System, Sewer Capacity, Solid Waste, Transportation, Tribal Cultural Resources, Utilities/Service Systems, Vegetation, Wetland/Riparian, Wildfire