Ceres Municipal Code Ch. 43 Regional Housing Needs Assessment Overlay District

The Regional Housing Needs Assessment Overlay District is intended to facilitate the development of affordable housing while promoting infill development on sites previously identified on housing inventories in the City's 4 th and 5 th Housing Element Cycles. Only those projects that have 20 percent of the total number of units deed restricted for low- and very-low income units are eligible for by-right development in this Overlay District.

(Ord. No. 2025-1087, § 1, 4-14-2025)

The Regional Housing Needs Assessment Overlay District is applicable to those sites identified in the table below. These sites are the reused sites in the 4 th and 5 th Housing Element Cycles. These sites are also identified in Appendix C of the 6th Cycle Housing Element in the Site Inventory List:

Table 18.43.020-1: Reused 4 th and 5 th Housing Element Cycle Sites

(Ord. No. 2025-1087, § 1, 4-14-2025)

The City shall implement by-right development for the sites identified in section 18.43.020 when a developer builds a project with at least 20 percent affordable units deed restricted for low- and very-low income units. Pursuant to Government Code section 65583.2(c), by-right development means the following are not required for development:

1. Conditional use permit;

2. Planned unit development permit;

3. Design review other than objective development design standards; or

4. Other discretionary, review or approval that would constitute a "project" as defined in section 2100 of the Public Resources Code (California Environmental Quality Act "CEQA").

(Ord. No. 2025-1087, § 1, 4-14-2025)