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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 New Zoning Code?
What is the New Zoning Code?

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?

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?

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?

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

The Church of Epiphany
The Church of Epiphany

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#OurLA, #ChurchofEpiphany, #ChicanoMoratorium, , #LatinxHeritageMonth, #EastLosAngeles, #EastLos, #EastLA, #ChicanoMovement, #LincolnHeights, #Walkouts, #Blowouts, #Protest, #MexicanAmerican

Chinatown
Market Chinatown: Hong Kong Noodle Company and Paul’s Kitchen

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#chinatown, #OurLA

Photo of Pacific Palisades
What Is the Mello Act?

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