SLO County embraced major updates to countywide multi-family land use ordinance.
Author: Planning and Building
Date: 9/23/2025 11:44 AM
On September 23, 2025, the SLO County Board of Supervisors adopted a comprehensive update to the countywide regulations related to multi-family housing. The amendments would increase flexibility for housing development to better achieve the number of dwelling units per acre as envisioned in the General Plan.
On September 23, 2025, the SLO County Board of Supervisors adopted a comprehensive update to the countywide regulations related to multi-family housing. The amendments would increase flexibility for housing development to better achieve the number of dwelling units per acre as envisioned in the General Plan. Some of the notable changes are allowing multi-family developments in the Office and Professional (OP), Commercial Retail (CR), and Commercial Service (CS) land use categories; Increasing allowed maximum number of dwelling units per acre; increasing allowed maximum floor area; reducing required setbacks, open areas, land use permit requirements for new development and approved landscape plans.
