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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 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

What is a StoryMap?
What is a StoryMap?
2022-04-18

Combining interactive maps with multimedia content and text to impart information, City Plann

#StoryMap, #HarborLAPlans, #CommunityPlans, #Wilmington, #HarborCity, #HarborGateway, #SouthwestValley, #SouthwestValleyCommunityPlansUpdate, #PurpleLine, #TransitNeighborhoodPlan, #TNP, #PurpleLineTransitNeighborhoodPlan, #SlausonCorridor, #TNPPlanning, #PlanningConcepts, #CityPlanning, #LA, #LosAngeles , #planning4la

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 the New Zoning Code?
What is the New Zoning Code?
2022-01-24

City Planning is modernizing Los Angeles’s Zoning Code to align with contemporary planning needs. This is the first comprehensive update to the Code since 1946 and marks a major shift from strictly Euclidean zoning—the most common form of land use regulation in the United States—to a hybrid, or modular, zoning approach. 

#zoning, #environment, #policy, #Housing, #Equity

Aerial view of Boyle Heights zoning
How does ZIMAS work?
2021-11-17

Supporting its portfolio of transparent, easy-to-access services, City Planning maintains the Zone Information and Map Access System, or ZIMAS, to allow individuals to learn more about the City’s neighborhoods and assist residents and businesses in making better informed land use decisions.

#ZIMAS, #zoning, #buildingpermit, #diy, #howto, #resource, #historicpreservationreview, #casenumbers, #rso

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