City Council - 2026-05-11 - Monday Agenda, May 11, 2026
Approves 2026 Land Development Code Update and Local Coastal Program amendments, 7-0
What happened
The San Diego City Council unanimously (7-0) adopted the 2026 Land Development Code Update (item 204), which includes 134 amendments — 103 citywide and 31 downtown — affecting housing incentives, complete communities regulations, DIF waivers for micro-units, wireless facility str…
- Jurisdiction
- San Diego, CA
- Governing body
- Final authority
- Date
- May 11, 2026
- Decisions
- 6 zoning decisions
- Outcome
- Approved, 7-0
Free sample: decision 1 of 6
FY2027 Business Improvement District Budgets
Approved the fiscal year 2027 Business Improvement District budget annual appropriation process, confirming actions from the prior meeting, authorizing the CFO to appropriate/transfer/expend assessment revenues (~$1.5 million from ~12,000 businesses across 18 active BIDs), approving the Third Amendment to FY2024 BID management agreements, and authorizing the mayor to execute contracts. Also allows Economic Development Department to directly manage the San Ysidro BID, waiving sections of Council Policy 900-7. Passed 7-0 with Von Wilpert and Foster absent.
The other decisions are listed below by title. The full write-up, verbatim conditions, and the audio at each vote are in Pro.
Meeting Summary
The San Diego City Council unanimously (7-0) adopted the 2026 Land Development Code Update (item 204), which includes 134 amendments — 103 citywide and 31 downtown — affecting housing incentives, complete communities regulations, DIF waivers for micro-units, wireless facility str…
Key Decisions (6)
FY2027 Business Improvement District Budgets
2026 Land Development Code Update and Local Coastal Program amendments
2025 Urban Water Management Plan and Water Shortage Contingency Plan
Mission Bay Park Improvements Program EIR and Implementation Framework
Intervention in National Prescription Opiate Litigation (CS1)
Intervention in Discover Card Merchant Class Action (CS2)
Development Activity (2)
Mission Bay Park Improvements Program
Infrastructure
Cerro Mesa veterans affordable housing (former library site)
Residential
Market Signals (6)
Housing Demand
The city continues to emphasize it is in a housing…
Infrastructure
SB 79, effective July 1, 2026, will require the city…
Infrastructure
City water demand has decreased 34% over two decades despite…
Who Spoke (20)
On the record: the chair, 2 councilmembers, 5 staff members, the clerk, and 6 members of the public.
Agenda scorecard
Our pre-meeting forecast, graded against the recorded voteZoneWire called 3 of 3 land-use forecasts on this agenda.
Mission Bay Park Improvements Program: Programmatic Environmental Impact Report and… request
Adoption of the 2025 Urban Water Management Plan (UWMP) and the 2025 Water Shortage… request
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