Online Surveys
The results and summaries of surveys conducted during the planning proces are available below.
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The City of Ventura’s Public Draft General Plan was available for public review. The General Plan sets the City’s direction for the next 25 years, balancing the preservation of Ventura’s unique character with opportunities for new housing and jobs. Feedback was provided through an online form.
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The City of Ventura released the updated draft land use designation descriptions and land use designation map for the General Plan Update on September 6. The updated materials are based on hundreds of public comments on the land use designation and land use map that was available for public comment in April and May of 2024. The public input resulted in significant changes to the land uses designations and the application of those designations to the land use designation map.
Below are the materials that were provided to the public:
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Over the past two years, City of Ventura staff have engaged with the community to discuss changes to the City’s land use map. The new land use map includes land use designations for every parcel in the City. The land use designations and the land use designation map are critical because they guide the allowed land use, building intensity (e.g., height and density), and general character for every parcel in Ventura. (Download descriptions of the new land use designations).
After an extensive community engagement process, the City Council endorsed a draft land use map in the Fall of 2023. The City Council focused primarily on the non-residential areas of the City, which were organized into 11 “Areas of Discussion.” Other areas of the City – primarily residential neighborhoods – were not discussed since no land use changes were expected from existing designations.
The General Plan team sought feedback from the public on the endorsed land use map. The feedback form is now closed. Staff received several comments regarding sites in the City with proposed land use designations that do not match the current regulations. The team worked diligently to identify these sites and determine the appropriate land use designation. After staff reviewed the input, an updated map was released, and a new comment period was opened to the community.
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Since 2020, the City heard from thousands of community members in its process of creating a land use map through workshops, online surveys, Community Councils, focus groups, pop-up events, and a General Plan Advisory Committee comprised of a diverse cross section of community members.
The culmination of this process was a series of 10 meetings with the 21-member General Plan Advisory Committee between November 2022 and June 2023 to discuss the vision for the different areas of the city and develop a proposed land use map for review by the community. The city’s land use map defines what every parcel in the city can be used for, and the residential density or commercial intensity that is allowed on those parcels.
The "High Level Land Use Feedback Form" was for residents to provide feedback on the vision for different areas of the city as well as citywide policy direction. We encouraged everyone to take this survey. A Spanish version of this survey was also available.
The "Detailed Land Use Feedback Form" was for residents who want to provide detailed input on land uses at the parcel level.
The feedback forms on the proposed land use map are now closed. The results from both Feedback Forms were presented to the Planning Commission (August 22 and 23, 2023) and City Council (September 11, 2023) as part of their discussions on the proposed land use map.
Watch the recording of the July 19th virtual office hours/open house, available here [Passcode: F8Yb0?44], for more background information on the proposed land use map.
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