About Community Plans

Community Plans

About

Community Plans provide goals and policies for individual communities, typically for areas within boundaries that reflect established community planning areas. Community Plan policies, in conjunction with the Community Plan Land Use Plan, are intended to be a comprehensive guide for the physical development of a community on a more detailed basis than the General Plan. The Land Use Plan delineates the location, density and intensity of housing, commercial, industrial, public facilities and open space. The plan may provide implementation strategies for such topics as land use, transportation, urban design, parks, school facilities and public services.

The nature of a community plan depends upon the need of the community. A community plan for a developed, mature area would focus on neighborhood enhancement and commercial revitalization goals and action items; whereas a community plan for a newly developing area would focus more on new development needs, e.g. location of new public facilities and infrastructure financing.

Under Review

The following Community Plans, if linked below, are available as an archived PDF. Planning staff are reviewing community plans for potential conversion to a format compatible with this library.

Community Plans	Text Adopted	Text Last Amended
Antelope1	N/A	N/A
Arden Arcade	11/6/1980	6/13/2006
Carmichael	10/15/1975	4/26/2006
Cordova	5/21/2003	N/A
Delta	3/10/1983	N/A
Fair Oaks	1/8/1975	N/A
Florin-Vineyard	12/15/2010	7/19/2022
North Highlands / North Central Area	4/17/1974	N/A
Orangevale	8/4/1976	N/A
Rio Linda and Elverta	6/3/1998	N/A
Southeast1	N/A	N/A
South Sacramento	12/6/1978	N/A
Vineyard	6/12/1985	N/A

Community Plan Land Use Designations

Community Plan Land Use Designations are now regularly updated on the County’s General Map tool under “Planning” in the left hand column.

Archived Community Plan Land Use Maps

For reference, the following archived maps are available for download.

Community Plan Archived Map	Amended Date
Antelope	April 24, 2012
Arden Arcade	January 23, 2012
Carmichael	September 4, 2007
Cordova	February 24, 2005
Fair Oaks	February 11, 2004
North Highlands / Foothill Farms	April 23, 2008
Orangevale	October 30, 1996
Rio Linda / Elverta	June 5, 2002
Southeast	May 9, 2007
South Sacramento	June 5, 2002
Vineyard	January 9, 2008

Footnotes

1. These communities do not have a text community plan, only a land use designation map, which is now solely maintained on the County’s General Map tool under “Planning” in the left hand column. The Southeast Area Community first adopted a land use designation map in 1976 and the Antelope Community first adopted a land use designation map in 1985. ↩ ↩²