This Report focuses on actions taken during 2019 and is the 17th Annual Report since the Council adopted the Comprehensive Amendment to the General Plan in June 2002.

Key projects implementing the General Plan this past year are listed below and described in more detail in the attached Annual Report document:

• Land Use Element
  • Zoning Ordinance Cleanup
  • 1700 Santa Monica Street Zone Change
• Train Station Specific Plan
  • Grading beginning in One Lake
• Heart of Fairfield Plan 
  • Great Jones and West Texas Street projects
  • Heart of Fairfield Gateways and Branding Program
  • Allan Witt Park Master Plan
  • West Texas Street Complete Street and Infrastructure Study 
  • Downtown Parking Study
  • Downtown banners and decorative lighting
  • Fairview and Sheldon Elementary School Campus Improvements
  • SB2 Planning Grant Application
• Housing Element
  • New building permits for 365 new single-family homes, all above- moderate-income units, including three permits for accessory structures 
  • The Building Division finaled the permits for 351 single family homes
  • The City continued offering the Housing Choice Voucher Program
  • The Housing Authority continued to provide Tenant Based Rental Assistance
  • The City sponsored a housing rehabilitation event for senior homeowners
  • Sunset Creek Rehabilitation completed
  • New ownership at Verdant includes a commitment to affordability, including 1/3 low income
• Open Space Conservation, and Recreation Element
  • Park Lighting Projects completed
  • Capital Improvements
  • Community Spaces Initiative (Allan Witt Park and Fairfield Linear Park) 
  • Pacific Flyway Center
• Circulation Element
  • Transit improvements
  • Jepson Parkway construction
  • West Texas Street “Complete Streets” Projects (Heart of Fairfield)
  • West Texas Street Gateway
• Public Facilities and Services
  • Capital projects planning and construction continued
  • Urban Water Management Plan
• Economic Development Plan
  • Heart of Fairfield Specific Plan
  • North Texas and Downtown 
  • Business recruitment and retention
• Travis Protection Element
  • Travis Community Consortium
  • Travis Community Partnership Forum
  • Eastern Taxiway
  • Enhanced Use Lease Program

 
As required by State law, staff also prepared the Annual Element Progress Report for submission to Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD). Effective in 2018, the State added significant additional data requirements to the Annual Housing Element Progress Report, including:

• the number of housing applications received in 2019, including the number and location of proposed, approved, and disapproved units by income levels;
• the number of new housing units that received a planning and zoning approval, building permit, or certificate of occupancy, identified by location, housing tenure (renter/owner), and income category;
• tracking of housing development projects summited, approved, permitted, or constructed under Senate Bill 35 streamlining; and  
• a listing of sites rezoned to accommodate the city’s regional housing need.
  
  The full 2019 Housing Element Progress Report can be viewed on the City’s website at: http://www.fairfield.ca.gov/civicax/filebank/blobdload.aspx?BlobID=18219. (Note: the Housing Element Progress Report contains very large tables that are not suitable for printing, and are best viewed electronically.) The building permits, housing applications, and SB 35 streamlining summary tables provided in the Report are copied below: