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2023-2031 Housing Element Update
The General Plan’s Housing Element is the City of San Bruno’s housing plan. The City, along with all California cities and counties, is required to adequately plan to meet the housing needs of everyone in the community and to update its plan every eight years. The foundation for the Housing Element is the Regional Housing Needs Assessment (RHNA), in which the State estimates each region’s housing needs for all income groups for the upcoming eight years. Each region then determines how much of the region's total housing needs to be produced for each city and county in the region. The City of San Bruno's portion of San Mateo County's RHNA target for the 2023-2031 Housing Element period is 3,165 homes. This goal is further broken down by income group.
The 2023-2031 Housing Element is the sixth update to the Housing Element and is also referred to as the 6th Cycle Housing Element. In the Housing Element, the City must identify enough potentially developable land zoned for residential use to meet the City’s new RHNA housing capacity/production target and must provide goals, objectives, policies, and programs to meet the housing needs of its citizens.
On August 27, 2024, San Bruno adopted an amended 2023-2031 Housing Element and on October 21, 2024, the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) found the element to be in substantial compliance with state law.
Each jurisdiction must prepare an annual progress report (APR) on the jurisdiction’s status and progress in implementing its housing element using standardized forms adopted by the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD). (Government Code Section 65400.) Each jurisdiction’s APR must be submitted to HCD and the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research (OPR) by April 1 of each year, covering the previous calendar year. A key function of the APR is monitoring the city’s progress in implementing its housing programs and monitoring how the city is meeting its share of the RHNA. Progress towards RHNA is based on the number of building permits issued for new housing units in the jurisdiction.
| Housing Production 2023-2025 (Building Permits Issued) | |||||||
| Income Level | RHNA Allocation (2023-2031) | Projection Period (7/2022 - 1/2023) | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Total Units | Units Remaining |
| Very Low | 704 | 0 | 37 | 13 | 11 | 61 | 643 |
| Low | 405 | 8 | 116 | 13 | 349 | 486 | 0 |
| Moderate | 573 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 17 | 56 | 517 |
| Above Moderate | 1,483 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 15 | 26 | 1,457 |
| Total | 3,165 | 22 | 171 | 44 | 392 | 629 | 2,538 |
Link to download APRs for the 6th Cycle
Approved Housing Element Documents
- Adopted amended 2023-2031 Housing Element
- Adopted amended 2023-2031 Housing Element Technical Background Report
- HCD Substantial Compliance Letter
City Council Adoption Documents
Housing Element Amended August 27, 2024
- City Council Staff Report
- City Council Resolution 2024-74
- City Council Resolution 2024-75
- City Council Resolution 2024-77
- City Council Ordinance 1954
- City Council Ordinance 1955
- City Council Ordinance 1956
Housing Element Adopted January 24, 2023
- City Council Staff Report
- City Council Resolution 2023-08
- City Council Resolution 2023-09
- City Council Resolution 2023-10
- Adopted Housing Element Appendices
Environmental Review Documents
- Adopted Initial Study and Mitigated Negative Declaration for the 2023-2031 Housing Element Update
- Appendix A - Air Quality & Greenhouse Gas Assessment
- Appendix B - Noise and Vibration Assessment
- Appendix C - VMT Analysis
- Appendix D - Water Supply Assessment
- Adopted Addendum to the Initial Study and Mitigated Negative Declaration for the 2023-2031 Housing Element Update
HCD Review Comments
State law (Government Code Section 65863(b)(1)) requires sufficient and adequate sites to be always available throughout the RHNA planning period to meet a jurisdiction’s remaining unmet housing needs for each income category. To comply with the No Net Loss Law, as jurisdictions make decisions regarding zoning and land use, or as development occurs, jurisdictions must assess their ability to accommodate new housing in each income category on the remaining sites in their housing element site inventories. A jurisdiction must add additional sites to its inventory if land use decisions or development results in a shortfall of sufficient sites to accommodate its remaining housing need for each income category. In particular, a jurisdiction may be required to identify additional sites according to the No Net Loss Law if a jurisdiction rezones a site or if the jurisdiction approves a project at a different income level than shown in the Sites Inventory. Lower density housing development means fewer units than the capacity assumed in the Sites inventory.
| No Net Loss - Units Gained/Loss by Fiscal Quarter | |||||
| FY2024-2025 | FY2025-2026 | FY2026-2027 | FY2027-2028 | FY2029-2030 | |
| Q1 Units Gain/Loss | 155 | ||||
| Q2 Units Gain/Loss | 0 | ||||
| Q3 Units Gain/Loss | 0 | ||||
| Q4 Units Gain/Loss | 0 | ||||
| Total Units Gain/Loss | 155 | ||||
Beginning July 1, 2024, the City has committed to posting quarterly updates in our No Net Loss Reporting. View the reports below:
Reporting Documents
Fiscal Year 2024-2025
- Q1 - Fiscal Year 2024-2025 (No Net Loss)
- Q2 - Fiscal Year 2024-2025 (No Net Loss)
- Q3 - Fiscal Year 2024-2025 (No Net Loss)
- Q4 - Fiscal Year 2024-2025 (No Net Loss)