Small and rural jurisdictions often have only one full-time or part-time planner responsible for CEQA review, multiple General Plan updates, complex grant applications, and maintaining GHG inventories and Climate Action Plans. This workload leaves little capacity for implementation and widens inequities with better-resourced cities that have dedicated climate or grant-writing staff. State guidance—such as lengthy General Plan Guidelines—is not user-friendly for small jurisdictions, highlighting the need for clearer examples, streamlined tools, and regionally tailored templates to help local governments integrate climate action and resilience requirements across mandated plans.