Community Development
Housing Element Update
The City’s Housing Element is required by State Law and as part of the City’s General Plan it provides an overview and guides housing programs development, emphasizing affordable and special needs housing, removal of governmental constraints to housing development, and equal access to housing.
The Housing Element is required to be updated every 8 years. For the 6th eight-year cycle (2021-2029), the City Council adopted the 2021-2029 Housing Element on February 7, 2022, but the document was not certified by the State Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD), who provided comments to further revise the document and instructions to implement a rezoning program concurrent with the revised Housing Element Update to allow for more capacity of housing. The rezoning include creating a new mixed-use (commercial and residential) zone for the City’s commercial shopping centers, to rezone the former oil production site at 99 Marina (next to Marina Park and Bridgeport) as high density residential, and to again allow new residential on the 2nd floor-only along Main Street. In response to comments received from HCD, and to remain in compliance with State Law, the Housing Element has been further revised, and the accompanying rezoning program is being brought forward to City Council.
Questions or comments can be sent to Shaun Temple, Interim Community Development Director, at stemple@sealbeachca.gov.