Agenda item
Senate Bill 79 Implementation Ordinance
Planning Commission Meeting, item 2, Senate Bill 79 Implementation Ordinance: Recommend approval to the City Council of a Zone Text Amendment, establishing Article 81 Transit-Oriented Development Overlay Zone, in Chapter 33 (Zoning) of the Escondido Municipal Code, for the purpose of implementing Senate Bill 79 as codified in Government Code sections 65912.155 through 65912.162, inclusive. The amendment includes adoption of the related TOD Overlay Zone Map and parcel inventories identifying sites subject to the statute, excluded sites, exempt sites that may become eligible through a development agreement, and sites subject to phased implementation. Staff recommendation: approval. [Packet, p. 3]
Tier 3 · Human approved · Updated Sep 1, 2026
Escondido would add a new section to its zoning rules, called the Transit-Oriented Development Overlay Zone, to carry out a state law known as Senate Bill 79. The change would go into Chapter 33, the zoning chapter of the city's municipal code, as Article 81, and it is written to put into effect the parts of state law found at Government Code sections 65912.155 through 65912.162. The proposal is a recommendation to the City Council, which would have the final say.
Along with the new rules, the city would adopt a map of the overlay zone and lists of individual properties sorted by how the state law applies to them: sites the law covers, sites left out, sites that are exempt now but could become eligible later through a development agreement, and sites where the rules would take effect in stages rather than all at once.
The city itself is the applicant, meaning Escondido brought the proposal forward rather than a private developer, and city staff are recommending that the City Council approve it. The case is filed as PL26-0140 for anyone looking it up in the official record. The excerpts do not say what the state law requires of the city, which properties fall on each of the lists, or when the City Council would take the ordinance up.
The record
- Meeting
- Planning Commission Meeting
- Body
- Planning Commission
- Item
- 2
- Request
- Recommend approval to the City Council of a Zone Text Amendment, establishing Article 81 Transit-Oriented Development Overlay Zone, in Chapter 33 (Zoning) of the Escondido Municipal Code, for the purpose of implementing Senate Bill 79 as codified in Government Code sections 65912.155 through 65912.162, inclusive. The amendment includes adoption of the related TOD Overlay Zone Map and parcel inventories identifying sites subject to the statute, excluded sites, exempt sites that may become eligible through a development agreement, and sites subject to phased implementation.
- Staff recommendation
- approval
- Case or file number
- PL26-0140
- Applicant
- City of Escondido
From the document
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2. PL26-0140 – Senate Bill 79 Implementation Ordinance
REQUEST: Recommend approval to the City Council of a Zone Text Amendment, establishing Article 81 Transit-Oriented Development Overlay Zone, in Chapter 33 (Zoning) of the Escondido Municipal Code, for the purpose of implementing Senate Bill 79 as codified in Government Code sections 65912.155 through 65912.162, inclusive. The amendment includes adoption of the related TOD Overlay Zone Map and parcel inventories identifying sites subject to the statute, excluded sites, exempt sites that may become eligible through a development agreement, and sites subject to phased implementation.
APPLICANT: City of Escondido
STAFF RECOMMENDATION: Recommend approval to City Council.
What this refers to
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Chapter 33
ZONING
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