ARTICLE 5. Authority for and Scope of General Plans

Article 5 added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1880.

§§ 65300–65303.4 · 24 sections

§ 65300 Each planning agency shall prepare and the legislative body of each county and city shall adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical…
§ 65300.2 (a) For the purposes of this article, a “200-year flood plain” is an area that has a 1 in 200 chance of flooding in any given year, based on hydrological…
§ 65300.5 (a) In construing the provisions of this article, the Legislature intends that the general plan and elements and parts thereof comprise an integrated,…
§ 65300.7 The Legislature finds that the diversity of the state’s communities and their residents requires planning agencies and legislative bodies to implement this…
§ 65300.9 The Legislature recognizes that the capacity of California cities and counties to respond to state planning laws varies due to the legal differences between…
§ 65301 (a) The general plan shall be so prepared that all or individual elements of it may be adopted by the legislative body, and so that it may be adopted by the…
§ 65301.5 The adoption of the general plan or any part or element thereof or the adoption of any amendment to such plan or any part or element thereof is a legislative…
§ 65302 The general plan shall consist of a statement of development policies and shall include a diagram or diagrams and text setting forth objectives, principles,…
§ 65302.01 (a) Upon the next update of one or more elements described in Section 65302, on or after January 1, 2028, the safety element shall be reviewed and updated as…
§ 65302.02 (a) A county or city that is located in a warehouse concentration region, as defined in Section 65098, shall update its circulation element, as required by…
§ 65302.1 (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) The San Joaquin Valley has a serious air pollution problem that will take the cooperation of…
§ 65302.2 Upon the adoption, or revision, of a city or county’s general plan, on or after January 1, 1996, the city or county shall utilize as a source document any…
§ 65302.3 (a) The general plan, and any applicable specific plan prepared pursuant to Article 8 (commencing with Section 65450), shall be consistent with the plan…
§ 65302.4 The text and diagrams in the land use element that address the location and extent of land uses, and the zoning ordinances that implement these provisions, may…
§ 65302.5 (a) At least 45 days prior to adoption or amendment of the safety element, each county and city shall submit to the California Geological Survey of the…
§ 65302.6 (a) A city, county, or a city and county may adopt with its safety element pursuant to subdivision (g) of Section 65302 a local hazard mitigation plan (HMP)…
§ 65302.7 (a) For the purposes of complying with Section 65302.5, each county or city located within the boundaries of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Drainage District,…
§ 65302.8 If a county or city, including a charter city, adopts or amends a mandatory general plan element which operates to limit the number of housing units which may…
§ 65302.9 (a) Within 24 months of July 2, 2013, each city and county within the Sacramento-San Joaquin Valley shall amend its general plan to contain all of the…
§ 65302.10 (a) As used in this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) “Community” means an inhabited area within a city or county that is…
§ 65302.13 (a) On or after January 1, 2027, but no later than January 1, 2030, each city, county, or city and county shall prepare and adopt an electrification plan,…
§ 65302.15 (a) Upon the next revision of a local hazard mitigation plan, adopted in accordance with the federal Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000 (Public Law 106-390), on…
§ 65303 The general plan may include any other elements or address any other subjects which, in the judgment of the legislative body, relate to the physical…
§ 65303.4 The Department of Water Resources or the Central Valley Flood Protection Board, as appropriate, and the Department of Fish and Game may develop site design and…