Chapter 14.05.010
General Provisions
Sections:
14.05.010.010 Title.
This division shall be known as the Planned Growth Ordinance of the City.
(Ord. 1972, Repealed and Replaced, 02/22/2022)
14.05.010.020 Purpose.
The planned growth management system of the City is designed to develop and promote the preservation of a high standard of quality of life for all present and future citizens of the City and ensure the effective allocation of available public resources. To this end, the regulations of this division are established to achieve the following purposes:
A. To produce a manageable, orderly, and reasonable rate of growth based upon the ability of the City to provide adequate public services, facilities, and infrastructure;
B. To ensure that residential growth in the City is supported by adequate levels of public services, public facilities, and infrastructure;
C. To accommodate the City’s fair share of county-wide and regional level residential growth, as well as its fair share of housing for very-low, low, moderate, and above moderate income households;
D. To accommodate an average long-term residential growth rate consistent with the General Plan through maintaining an adequate inventory of approved residential allocations through an annual review process and also through the approval of Phasing Plans for residential areas subject to specific plans or policy plans.
E. To regulate the rate of residential growth for lands within the City limits as of January 1, 2000, through a process which phases the construction of remaining unbuilt units which are not subject to project specific phasing plans;
F. To regulate the annexation and construction of residential units on lands not within the City limits as of January 1, 2000, through phasing consistent with the Vacaville Comprehensive Annexation Plan and through phasing plans adopted by the City Council; and
G. To strive for a jobs and housing balance where employment opportunities within the City are economically sufficient to allow employees to live and work in the City, and to ensure that affordable housing is available for local employees.
(Ord. 1972, Repealed and Replaced, 02/22/2022)
14.05.010.030 Definitions.
For the purposes of this division, the following definitions shall apply:
“Allocation” means a residential unit for which the City Council has determined that a building permit for a new residential unit may be at issued at any time, so long as the allocation remains valid.
“Custom designed single-family homes” are single-family housing plans that:
1. Are not an approved production home for the residential project in which it is located; and
2. Are not constructed more than once in a residential project or the project consists of single lots sold individually to purchasers who contract individually for house plans.
“Phasing plan” means a document approved by the City Council which includes provisions for the annual phasing of building permits and/or recordation of final maps within a residential project. The phasing plan is contained within a City Council adopted document such as a specific plan, policy plan or development agreement.
(Ord. 1972, Repealed and Replaced, 02/22/2022)
14.05.010.040 Applicability.
This chapter is suspended until January 1, 2034, to help facilitate housing production and to remove governmental constraints to the development of housing as required by Government Code Section 65583(c)(3).
No application for any entitlement for a use, or any application related to residential development including, but not limited to, annexation, tentative maps, vesting tentative maps, parcel maps, final maps, design reviews, planned developments, or building permits shall be accepted, processed, or issued for construction of residential units, whether single-family or multifamily, except as set forth in this division.
A. Nothing in this chapter is intended to be, nor shall it be, a limitation on the ability of the City Council to exercise its police power to adopt or institute further limitations on development within the City or to establish moratoria, as necessary, to preserve the public health, safety, and welfare in light of changing conditions as they may occur in the future.
B. Nothing in this chapter is intended to be, nor shall it be, a limitation on the ability of the City Council to annex unincorporated territory to the City, whether for residential, industrial, or commercial development, in conformance with the provisions of the General Plan, the Land Use and Development Code, the standards for annexation of the Solano County Local Agency Formation Commission, and the provisions of the Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of the California Government Code.
(Ord. 1984, Amended, 07/25/2023; Ord. 1972, Repealed and Replaced, 02/22/2022)