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Los Angeles City Planning engages with community members on a variety of land use issues. In addition to hosting events and speaking at neighborhood council meetings, City Planning staff maintain a blog to share updates and insights on planning matters.

For additional information, contact: planning.media@lacity.org.

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What is the Restaurant Beverage Program?
What is the Restaurant Beverage Program?
2022-06-17

Historically, the profit margin from the sale of alcoholic beverages has helped restaurant owners stay afloat during sharp rises in rent and payroll costs.

#RestaurantBeverageProgram #RBP #AlcoholicBeverages #restaurant #owners #bars #SmallBusinesses #covid19 #pandemic #framework #ordinance #FinancialRelief #support #local #EconomicGrowth #streamlined #ApprovalProcess #ApplyOnline

What is a Community Plan?
What is a Community Plan?
2022-05-17

Los Angeles’s General Plan Land Use Element is composed of 35 Community Plans that cover the entire 473 square miles of the City.

#CommunityPlans, #LandUse, #GeneralPlan, #LandUseElement, #CommunityPlanArea, #Planning, #LongRangePlanning, #Strategy, #Vision, #Neighborhoods, #DecisionMaking, #Housing, #Transportation, #Business, #UrbanDesign, #Mobility, #EconomicDevelopment, #Stakeholder, #CommunityInput, #PublicEngagement

How Los Angeles Got Serious About Housing
How Los Angeles Got Serious About Housing
2022-03-17

Our City—rich in industry and creativity—has gained the unfortunate notoriety of being a major epicenter in the California housing crisis. The fundamental reason for our crisis is the same as in most global cities: an extreme shortage of housing, which has left Angelenos to face overcrowding, punishing commutes, or, all too often, homelessness.

#Housing, #HousingElement, #planning4la

What is City Planning Doing to Promote Greater Equity in Planning Practices?
What is City Planning Doing to Promote Greater Equity in Planning Practices?
2022-02-18

This June will mark two years since the Office of Racial Justice, Equity, and Transformative Planning was established with the goal of addressing the legacy of racism and segregation in Los Angeles’s past planning practices.

#BlackHistoryMonth, #BlackHistoryMonth2022, #BlackHistoryIsAmericanHistory, #EnvironmentalRacism, #EnvironmentalJustice, #CommunityPlanImplementationOverlay, #CPIO, #OfficeOfRacialJusticeEquityAndTransformativePlanning

What is Latino Urbanism?
What is Latino Urbanism?
2021-10-21

Latino Urbanism is a broad term used to categorize the multiple practices by which Latinos have created and contributed to the forms, functions, and cultural landscapes of American cities.

#LatinoUrbanism , #LatinxHeritageMonth, #LandUse, #CityPlanning, #UrbanPlanning

Mayan Theater
How is Latinx Heritage reflected in some of the City’s Historic Treasures?
2021-09-22

The Mayan Theater, the Million Dollar Theater, and the Great Wall of Los Angeles are just a few of the City’s iconic historic treasures associated with Latinx artists and designers whose work includes Colonial and Pre-Colonial imagery and influences, expressing through their work the negotiation and alliances between eras, cultures, languages, a

#HispanicHeritageMonth , LatinxHeritageMonth, #OfficeOfHistoricResources, #Theater, #Cultural, #SurveyLA

Photo of Pacific Palisades
What Is the Mello Act?
2021-08-24

In 1982, the State of California adopted the Mello Act to preserve and increase the supply of affordable housing in the State’s Coastal Zone.

#MelloAct, #ordinance, #Coastal