General Plan/Coastal Land Use Plan 2024 Progress Report
Summary
SCH Number
2025030948
Public Agency
City of Goleta
Document Title
General Plan/Coastal Land Use Plan 2024 Progress Report
Document Type
NOE - Notice of Exemption
Received
Posted
3/24/2025
Document Description
Government Code Section 65400 requires the City to prepare a report annually regarding the status of the City’s General Plan/Coastal Land Use Plan (General Plan) and provide the annual report to the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research (recently renamed the Governor’s Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation (LCI)) and the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD). The annual progress report assesses the level of implementation and effectiveness of the General Plan relative to orderly growth and development, preservation and conservation of open-space land and natural resources, and the efficient expenditure of public funds. The annual progress report also provides information regarding the City’s progress in meeting its share of regional housing needs and summarizes the degree to which the General Plan complies with statutory requirements of the California Government Code. An inventory of the General Plan Amendment history is also included.
The General Plan is the City’s official policy that guides decisions affecting future physical development and change within the City. The General Plan was adopted on October 2, 2006. Each of the elements of the General Plan sets forth implementation actions and programs that are intended to carry out a policy and achieve specific objectives. The General Plan implementation actions and programs provide the basis for documenting General Plan progress.
The format and content of the annual progress report were prepared in accordance with the State’s submittal requirements under California Government Code Sections 65400 et seq. and California Code of Regulations, Title 25, Division 1, Chapter 6, Sections 6200 et seq.
The Planning Commission considered the contents of the General Plan/Coastal Land Use Plan 2024 Progress Report (2024 Progress Report) on February 24, 2025, and recommended that City Council approve the 2024 Progress Report, authorize staff to submit the report to the LCI and HCD, and find the approval of the 2024 Progress Report to be exempt from California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).
Contact Information
Name
Molly Cunningham
Agency Name
City of Goleta
Job Title
Assistant Planner
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Phone
Location
Cities
Goleta
Counties
Santa Barbara
Regions
Citywide
Cross Streets
Citywide
Notice of Exemption
Exempt Status
Other
Type, Section or Code
15060(c)(3); 15378(b)(5); 15061(b)(3)
Reasons for Exemption
This General Plan 2024 Progress Report is not subject to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to Section 15060(c)(3) of the CEQA Guidelines (Title 14, Chapter 3 of the California Code of Regulations) because the activity is not a project as defined in Section 15378(b )(5) as an organizational or administrative activity by government that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes in the environment.
The General Plan 2024 Progress Report is also exempt from CEQA pursuant to Section 15061(b)(3) of the CEQA Guidelines because the activity is covered by the general rule which exempts activities that can be seen with certainty to have no possibility for causing a significant effect on the environment.
County Clerk
Santa Barbara
Attachments
Notice of Exemption
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