Development Trends:
Housing Element Sites Inventory Guidebook (AB 1397) · 2026 edition · updated 2026-07-29 · California
The inventory analysis should describe development and/or redevelopment trends in the community as it relates to nonvacant sites, i.e., the rate at which similar sites have been redeveloped. This could include a description of the local government’s track record and specific role in encouraging and facilitating redevelopment, adaptive reuse, or recycling to residential or more intensive residential uses. If the local government does not have any examples of recent recycling or redevelopment, the housing element should describe current or planned efforts (via new programs) to encourage and facilitate this type of development (e.g., providing incentives to encourage lot consolidation or assemblage to facilitate increased residential-development capacity). The results of the analysis should be reflected in the capacity calculation described in Part C, above.
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- SUBJECT: Housing Element Site Inventory Guidebook Government C…
- Housing Element Site Inventory Requirements
- SITE INVENTORY GUIDEBOOK FRAMEWORK
- PART A: IDENTIFICATION OF SITES
- PART B: SITES TO ACCOMMODATE LOW AND VERY LOW- INCOME RHNA
- PART C: CAPACITY ANALYSIS
- PART D: NONVACANT SITES
- PART E: DETERMINATION OF ADEQUATE SITES
- Step 1: Identification of Developable Sites Government Code se…
- Government Code section 65583.2(b)
- Step 3: Infrastructure Availability Government Code section 65…
- Step 4: Map of Sites
- Step 5: Determination of Consistency with Affirmatively Furthe…
- Government Code section 65583.2(c)
- HCD Best Practices for selecting sites to accommodate the lowe…
- Step 7: Environmental Constraints
- NEXT STEP:
- Step 1: NEW Sites Used in Previous Planning Periods Housing El…
- Unusual Circumstances
- Step 1B:
- Definition of Use By Right (Government Code section 65583.2 (i))
- Sample Program:
- Government Code section 65583.2(c)(3)
- Housing Overlays
- Step 3: Size of Sites
- Definition of a Large Site
- Specific Plans, Master Plan, and other Subdivisions
- NEXT STEP:
- Step1: Utilizing minimum densities to calculate realistic capa…
- Government Code section 65583.2(c)(2)
- - Applicable land use controls and site improvement requirements
- Form Based Codes
- Typical densities of existing or approved residential developm…
- No Net Loss Law
- NEXT STEP:
- Definition of a Vacant Site
- Step 1: Description of the nonvacant site Government Code Sect…
- Government Code section 65583.2(g)(1)
- Existing Uses:
- Development Trends:
- Market Conditions:
- Availability of Regulatory and/or other Incentives:
- Step 3: NEW Reliance on nonvacant sites to accommodate more th…
- Step 4: NEW Program and policy requiring replacement of existi…
- Program X: Replacement Unit Program
- Funding: General Funds
- NEXT STEP:
- Government Code section 65583.1
- Impact of New Accessory Dwelling Unit Laws
- Step 2: Determine whether there is sufficient capacity to acco…
- Step 3: Adequate Sites Program
- General Program Requirements
- Timing
- Consequences for Failing to Complete Rezoning Deadline:
- Housing Accountability Act and the Housing Element
- Annexation
- Common Program Questions and Answers for Shortfall Zoning:
- ATTACHMENT 1: SUMMARY OF NEW LAWS REFERENCED IN THE GUIDEBOOK
- ATTACHMENT 2: GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 65583.2