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Adopted Comprehensive Updates
The Housing, Ordinance and Policy (HOP) team regularly processes comprehensive updates in order to ensure that the Code is in compliance with State law and is responsive to the City's changing land use needs. Information regarding past comprehensive updates can be found below. In some instances, all amendments were adopted by the City Council with a single ordinance. In other instances, the comprehensive update package may have included two or more ordinances.
In addition to comprehensive updates, the HOP team also processes single-issue LDC updates.
The 2021 Code Update was adopted by the City Council on December 13, 2021 as Item 204 and received the second reading on January 11, 2022 as Item 62.
The new regulations, codified in 
O-21416 and O-21417, will become effective in areas outside of the Coastal Zone on February 26, 2022.
There are 33 items contained in two ordinances, the General Zoning and Fiber Optic. The most efficient way to search the draft language is by the code section listed in the matrix.
- NOTE: These regulations will become effective in areas outside of the Coastal Zone on March 3, 2021.
- The Airport items related to the 2020 Code Update have to go to the Airport Land Use Commission and then back to City Council for final adoption Fall of 2021.
- Matrix of Items 2020 Code Update
- Final Signed Ordinance No. 21288: 2020 Code Update
This update amends the Cannabis Outlet and Cannabis Production Facilities related to 1) measurement from a residential zone; and 2) the expiring of Medical Marijuana Consuler Cooperatives, Cannabis Outlet and Cannabis Production Facilities. This ordinance was approved on July 30, 2020. NOTE: These regulations are only effective in areas outside of the Coastal Zone. O-21221.pdf O-21221.pdf O-21221.pdf O-21221.pdf O-21221.pdf O-21221.pdf O-21221.pdf O-21221.pdf O-21221.pdf O-21221.pdf O-21221.pdf O-21221.pdf O-21221.pdf O-21221.pdf O-21221.pdf O-21221.pdf O-21221.pdf O-21221.pdf O-21221.pdf O-21221.pdf O-21221.pdf O-21221.pdf
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