The purpose of zoning is to divide the city into areas of such size, shape and number best suited to carry out the land use regulations of the City of Sacramento. "Zone" means a specifically delineated area in the city within which uniform regulations and requirements govern the use, placement, spacing, and size of land and buildings. Known also as zoning district. These regulations are found in the City of Sacramento Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance (Ordinance Number 2550, Fourth Series, as amended). For complete zoning code definitions, please see this description document.

West Sacramento's Zoning map

The General Plan is a set of policies, programs and maps that form a blueprint for physical development in the unincorporated County. The plan addresses important community issues such as new growth, housing needs and environmental protection. It's policies are instrumental in planning infrastructure to accommodate future growth. State law requires that all California Counties and Cities adopt General Plans which include seven mandatory elements (chapters): Land Use, Circulation, Housing, Conservation, Open Space, Noise and Safety. Sacramento County also has six additional elements: Air Quality, Public Facilities, Hazardous Materials, Agricultural, Scenic Highways and the American River Parkway Plan.Find more information here: General Plan

This dataset was developed for the 2015 Assessment of Forest and Rangelands. It is derived from several data sources, including housing density (input_lsn_HousingDensity12_2), Fire Hazard Severity Zones (FHSZ_Assessment11_1), Unimproved Parcels (input_UnimprovedParcels16_1), and Vegetation Cover (input_FVEG15_2). The current dataset is appropriate for displaying the overall pattern of WUI development at the county level, and comparing counties in terms of development patterns. Until the dataset is refined through a field review process, it is not suited for WUI designations for individual houses or neighborhoods. Housing Density Classes used in the WUI definitions: 1 - Less than one house per 20 acres 2 - One house per 20 acres to one house per 5 acres 3 - More than one house per 5 acres to 1 house per acre 4 - More than 1 house per acreWildland Urban Interface is dense housing adjacent to vegetation that can burn in a wildfire and must meet these criteria: •Housing density class 2, 3 or 4 •In moderate, high, or very high Fire Hazard Severity Zone •Not dominated by wildland vegetation (i.e., lifeform not herbaceous, hardwood, conifer or shrub) •Spatially contiguous groups of 30m cells that are10 acres and largerWildland Urban Intermix is housing development interspersed in an area dominated by wildland vegetation subject to wildfire and must meet these criteria: •Not Interface •Housing density class 2 •Housing density class 3, 4 dominated by wildland vegetation •In Moderate, High or Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone •Improved parcels only •Spatially contiguous groups of 30m cells 25 acres and largerWildfire Influence Zone is wildfire susceptible vegetation up to 1.5 miles from Wildland Urban Interface or Wildland Urban Intermix and must meet these criteria: •Wildland vegetation up to 1.5 miles from Interface or Intermix

This map is embedded in the ArcGIS Online Web Experience to view NWS Sacramento's new proposed public zone boundary changes. The map depicts the current public zones as well as the proposed new zones.

Under contract to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) and the Bay-Delta Region for use in conjunction with the Delta Regional Ecosystem Restoration Implementation Plan, CDFW created a fine-scale vegetation map of portions of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. CDFW conducted field reconnaissance assistance for this project, as well as accuracy assessment (AA) field data collection; and Jeff Kennedy, Kristi Lazar, Jeanne Taylor and Jahalel L. Tuil [University of California Davis Information Center for the Environment (ICE)]; Brad Burkholder, Daniel Burmester, Curtis Hagen, Diana Hickson, Todd Keeler-Wolf, to assist in the AA field data collection. CDFW’s Vegetation Classification and Mapping Program (VegCAMP) provided in-kind service to allocate and score the AA. The mapping study area, consists of approximately 725,600 acres, of which approximately 104,600 acres are natural vegetation, 555,100 acres agriculture and urban development, and 65,900 acres are open water or inundated lands. These acres were apart of Alameda, Contra Costa, Solano, Sacramento, San Joaquin, and Yolo counties. Work was performed on the project between 2005 and 2007. The primary purpose of the project was to further CDFW’s goal of developing fine-scale digital vegetation maps as part of the California Biodiversity Initiative Roadmap of 2018. CNPS under separate contract and in collaboration with CDFW VegCAMP developed the floristic vegetation classification used for the project. The floristic classification follows protocols compliant with the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) and National Vegetation Classification Standards (NVCS). The vegetation map was produced applying heads-up digitizing techniques using both the spring 2002 Stockton, Sacramento, and Delta High Resolution (1-foot) Orthoimagery and summer 2005 NAIP (1-meter) orthoimagery served as the base, in conjunction with ancillary data and imagery sources. Map polygons are assessed for Vegetation Type, Percent Cover, Exotics, Development Disturbance, and other attributes. The minimum mapping unit (MMU) is 2 acres for land use and vegetation; exceptions made for isolated land use, water, and critical vegetation types which were mapped to a 1-acre MMU. Field reconnaissance and accuracy assessment enhanced map quality. There was a total of 131 mapping classes. The overall Fuzzy Accuracy Assessment rating for the final vegetation map, at the Alliance and Group levels, is 85% percent with 9 types falling below 70%. More information can be found in the project report, which is bundled with the vegetation map published for BIOS here: https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=18211.

Airport Safety Zones as of August 2024The following six airport safety zones are established around each airport to reflect increasing or decreasing degrees of risk and land use compatibility restrictions:Runway Protection Zone (RPZ);Inner Approach/Departure Safety Zone (ISZ);Inner Turning Zone (ITZ);Outer Approach/Departure Safety Zone (OSZ);Sideline Safety Zone (SSZ); Traffic Pattern Zone (TPZ) Overflight ZoneClear Zone

Updated March 2023Noise contours in decibels for areas surrounding airports in the Sacramento, Sutter, Yolo, and Yuba counties' Airport Land Use Commission (ALUC), compiled from individual airport files to make a single regional layer.The SACOG Board of Directors serves as the Airport Land Use Commission (ALUC) for Sacramento, Sutter, Yolo and Yuba counties. California’s State Aeronautics Act (Public Utilities Code, Chapter 4, Article 3.5), identifies the role and responsibilities of the ALUCs in land use planning. The Act’s ALUC requirements are intended to ensure that proposed land uses near public-use airports are compatible with airport uses in terms of safety, noise and air space.One of the ALUC’s primary functions is to develop and adopt a plan that identifies zones for safety, noise contours, and height restrictions, along with associated compatible land uses, for each public-use airport. These plans are referred to as Airport Land Use Compatibility Plans (ALUCPs). For more information regarding ALUCPs, visit the ALUC page on the SACOG website.Updates as needed.Next review: January 2024

Vegetation and land use are mapped for the approximately 725,000 acres constituting the Legal Delta portion of the Sacramento and San Joaquin River Delta area. Vegetation mapping is to sub-alliance to super-alliance level (based on the National Vegetation Classification Standard, see http://biology.usgs.gov/npsveg/nvcs.html ); land use is mapped to Anderson Level 2 classification ( see http://landcover.usgs.gov/pdf/anderson.pdf ). The map classification is based on a vegetation classification derived from field data collected in summer and fall of 2005 produced by the Vegetation Classification and Mapping Program of the Department of Fish and Game. The 2002 Stockton, Sacramento, and Delta High Resolution (1-foot) Orthoimagery and 2005 NAIP (1-meter) orthoimagery served as the base. Natural vegetation comprises approximately 17% of the Delta study area, 65% is agriculture and pasture, 10% is urban/other and 8% is open water.