The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors (BoS) will review and consider approval of the County “Local Coastal Plan” (LCP) on July 17th. Permit Sonoma (the county planning department) is in charge of the LCP updates which have had public input and hearings before the county Planning Commission, and the BoS. This is the last stage before final county approval and forwarding to the California Coastal Commission for certification later this year.
District 5 Supervisor Lynda Hopkins plans to make a proposal on the 17th for amended language to the LCP. She says she is “not proposing density limits; I am simply adding ‘housing stock and affordability’ to an existing program regarding vacation rentals.”
HOPKINS’ PROPOSED LCP AMENDED LANGUAGE:
Program C-LU-5-1P: Establish performance standards for the use of existing residences for vacation rentals and hosted rentals. In developing standards consider requirements for designated property managers, safety, parking, noise, and number of guests allowed for daytime and nighttime occupancy. In addition to performance standards, identify areas where concentration of vacation rental [sic] would impact environmentally sensitive habitat areas, water quality, housing stock and affordability, community character, noise, traffic impacts or coastal access and develop land use policy to avoid these impacts.
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LCP Update Comments can be sent to:
District5@Sonoma-county.org (Sup. Hopkins’ office)
PRMD-Update@sonoma-county.org (Permit Sonoma)