Major Project List

Community Planning Projects

1. Envision Contra Costa 2040

   Envision Contra Costa 2040 is a comprehensive review and update of the County's General Plan. The process began in late-2018 and the final document will be adopted in 2020.

2. Byron Airport Development Program

   Existing General Plan policies and zoning regulations for Byron Airport prohibit most of the uses necessary for the airport to reach its aviation potential and achieve economic self-sufficiency. To promote economic development, the County intends to amend its Airport Land Use Compatibility Plan, General Plan, and Planned Unit District zoning to substantially broaden the range of uses allowed by right on the airport property.

3. Climate Action Plan Update

   The Climate Action Plan (CAP) is the County’s strategic approach to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from sources throughout the unincorporated area. The CAP is being updated in parallel with Envision Contra Costa 2040. Envision Contra Costa 2040 will provide the long-term resiliency framework of goals and policies, and the CAP will provide strategic implementation programs to show how the County will reduce GHG emissions complementary to the State’s climate goals.

4. Healthy Lands, Healthy People - A Carbon Sequestration Feasibility Study

   The Healthy Lands, Healthy People project is a feasibility study to identify strategies we can use to store carbon dioxide in the many different land uses in our county.

5. Renewable Resource Potential Study

   Contra Costa County, through a grant from the California Strategic Growth Council, in 2018 conducted a study of the potential in the County for renewable energy, particularly wind, solar, biomass, and biogas.

6. Saranap Address Change

   County Supervisor Candace Andersen and the Department of Conservation and Development were asked by a group of residents living in your neighborhood to investigate the possibility of changing the place name of some addresses from Walnut Creek to Lafayette.

Conservation Projects

1. Knightsen Wetland Restoration Project

   East Contra Costa County Habitat Conservancy and partners are developing a habitat restoration project on a 645-acre property east of the Knightsen community.

Economic Development and Community Development

1. Development Opportunities

   Development opportunities in partnership with the Housing Successor Agency in former Redevelopment Project Areas

2. Housing Element Update

   The Housing Element is one of the required Elements of the General Plan The Housing Element will include an overview of housing policies and programs and will identify locations that can accommodate future housing.

Major Planning Projects Under Consideration

1. Bayview Residential Project

   The project proposes 144 single-family homes and associated internal roadways on an approximately 78-acre project site in the Vine Hill / Pacheco Boulevard area. The project also proposes four open space parcels, one of which is proposed as a park.

2. Brentwood Oil and Gas

   The applicant requests approval of a Land Use Permit to allow the establishment of an approximately 60,000 square-foot gas and oil well pad on an agriculturally zoned 160-acre parcel located in unincorporated Brentwood.

3. CEMEX Clayton Quarry

   The project will revise the approved reclamation plan to respond to changed circumstances which have resulted in the approved reclamation plan’s infeasibility and to provide an environmentally superior alternative for reclamation.

4. CenterPoint Properties Warehouse Project

   CenterPoint Properties proposes to build three warehouse buildings totaling approximately 555,537 at 506 Brookside Drive in North Richmond

5. Creekside Cemetery

   The proposed Creekside Memorial Park Cemetery would occupy 58.7 acres of a 221.66-acre site, which includes an upper garden and a lower garden located on two parcels at 7000 Camino Tassajara in the Tassajara area.

6. Keller Canyon Landfill

   The Keller Canyon Landfill (KCL) is located at 901 Bailey Road, in unincorporated Contra Costa County near Pittsburg, CA. This proposed project consists of operational changes specified in the application (LP082026) submitted by Keller Canyon Landfill Company (KCLC) requesting to amend the facility’s existing Land Use Permit (LUP 2020-89) Conditions of Approval.

7. Martinez Refinery Renewable Fuels Project

   Planning Application for the Martinez Refinery Renewable Fuels Project. The permit would allow the conversion of Marathon's Martinez Refinery facility from the processing of crude oil, to the processing of renewable feedstocks. The renewable feedstocks are expected to include biological based oils (i.e. soybean oil and corn oil), rendered fats, and other miscellaneous renewable feedstocks including used cooking oils or other vegetable oils.

8. Oak Road Townhouse Condominiums

   The Oak Road Project proposes 125 condominium units on a former private school site.

9. Phillips 66 Rodeo Renewed Project

   Planning Application to transform the existing Rodeo Refinery into a facility that converts renewable feedstocks into renewable diesel, renewable components of other transportation fuels, and renewable fuel gas through the use of existing refinery process units.

10. Scannel Properties

    Scannell Properties proposes to build two warehouse fulfillment buildings totaling approximately 325,000 square feet on a 29.4-acre site in the unincorporated North Richmond area of Contra Costa County.

11. Spieker Senior Continuing Care

    The project includes a requests of approval for a Preliminary and Final Development Plan to allow for a Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC) that consists of 354 independent living units, 100-unit health center, maintenance building, parking structure, clubhouse, and recreation building. Additionally, the project includes a request to approve a tree permit to remove approximately 353 trees.

12. Tassajara Parks

    The Tassajara Parks project consists of the construction of 125 single-family homes with substantial park, recreation and open space components in the Tassajara Valley area of unincorporated Contra Costa County.

Proposed Zoning Code Changes

1. Agricultural Land Use Policy

   The Agricultural Land Use Process Review is an engagement process for interested stakeholders to review agricultural sustainability and economic vitality in Contra Costa County by reviewing existing land use regulations and providing input on potential modifications to these policies.

2. North Richmond Heavy Distribution Use Prohibition- Zoning Text Amendment

   On November 29, 2022, the Board of Supervisors adopted an Urgency Interim Ordinance Extension No. 2022-27 prohibiting the establishment or expansion of fulfillment centers, parcel hubs and parcel sorting facilities (Collectively “Heavy Distribution”) in the unincorporated North Richmond area of Contra Costa County. The Department of Conservation and Development and other County agencies will research and analyze the potential individual and cumulative impacts from Heavy Distribution.

Transportation Projects

1. I-680/Treat Blvd Bicycle & Pedestrian Improvements

   The proposed project would provide a plan that identifies improvements to serve bicyclists and pedestrians using the Treat Boulevard/I-680 corridor between the Iron Horse Trail, through the Interstate-680 (I-680) over-crossing ("over-crossing") near the Contra Costa Centre/Pleasant Hill BART station area, and extending west to Geary Road/North Main Street in the City of Walnut Creek. The I-680/Treat Boulevard over-crossing is one of the main arteries into the Contra Costa Centre/Pleasant Hill BART station area from areas of Walnut Creek west of the freeway.

2. Iron Horse Corridor Active Transportation Study

   This Study will explore opportunities and constraints for further developing the active transportation features within the Iron Horse Corridor. Contra Costa County ("County") will be the lead agency on the Study. However, the Study will be developed collaboratively and include stakeholders such as the cities (Concord, Pleasant Hill, Danville, Walnut Creek, San Ramon), East Bay Regional Park District, Contra Costa Transportation Authority, utility companies and advocacy organizations. The Study will include an extensive public outreach component, existing conditions analysis, transportation analysis and alternatives development and analysis.

3. Marsh Creek Corridor Multi-Use Feasibility Study

   The proposed Marsh Creek multi‐use trail would create a new major non‐motorized east‐west thoroughfare for expanded commuting or recreational opportunities. It would provide non-motorized access to Downtown Clayton, Diablo View Middle School, Mount Diablo, Round Valley Regional Reserve, and the existing Marsh Creek Trail through Brentwood and Oakley.

4. Senate Bill (SB) 743

   In 2013, Governor Brown signed Senate Bill (“SB”) 743 (Steinberg), which creates a process to change the way that transportation impacts are analyzed under California Environmental Quality Act (“CEQA”). June 23, 2020, the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors adopted Transportation Analysis Guidelines to aid in the preparation of traffic analysis for project applicants and staff.

5. WCCTAC Program Update

   WCCTAC first implemented a transportation impact fee via the Subregional Transportation Mitigation Program (STMP) in 1997 and has conducted an update of the fee program this year, in 2019. The fee helps fund transportation projects to mitigate the impacts of new development. Per Assembly Bill (AB) 1600, the Mitigation Fee Act, this website hosts documents required to meet public noticing requirement.

6. AB 540 Information

   AB540 will improve mobility options for seniors and persons with disabilities through policy improvements and increased funding.

EIR Project Archive

Listing to Historic EIR, completed projects, and other archived documents.