City - Regular Meeting

Tuesday, August 18, 2026

The City Council voted to continue item 1b indefinitely and then began discussing a potential preferred housing site, a goal linked to the recently state-certified housing element.

About this meeting

Government Body
City
Meeting Type
City
Location
Pacific Grove, CA
Meeting Date
August 18, 2026

Transcript

2 sections

0:00 – 0:33Speaker 2

up timely um so if that if that's okay um can i get a motion to uh continue item 1b to a date uncertain when we have more time to move it to another time okay thank you second okay thank you very much we'll give the second to rao um and any further discussion We'll take a voice vote. All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Hearing none. Passes unanimously. So we will go ahead and recognize John Biggs to take up item 1A. Thank you very much.

1:08 – 2:03Speaker 1

Mr. Mayor, City Council, John Biggs with your Community Development Department. This evening, as the Mayor mentioned, we did have a couple of items on the agenda, but we're going to shorten that up to just discussing a potential preferred housing site. As the City Council recalls, we had the state certifier housing element back in May of this year. We got the letter from the state HCD letting us know that the housing had been certified along with all of these zoning code amendments and the general plan amendments that were included in that package of information One of the goals that the City Council has, aside from the goals and the programs that are part of the housing element, is to identify a preferred housing site. That sort of links up with the programs that we have in our housing element, specifically looking for opportunity sites in the city, really focusing on the list of identified housing sites that were adopted as part of the

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