The City of Los Angeles is organized into 35 Community Plan Areas that outline goals,
policies, and neighborhood-specific planning tools that facilitate and guide future
development. Community Plans comprise the City's General Plan Land Use Element, and
play a key role in guiding how the City will bolster housing and job growth, conserve
open space and natural resources, and balance the unique needs of individual
neighborhoods. While the General Plan sets out a long-range vision and guide to future
development, the 35 Community Plans provide the specific, neighborhood-level detail,
relevant policies, and implementation strategies necessary to achieve the General Plan
objectives.
Each Community Plan includes:
- a policy document that reflects a variety of priorities for that community,
- a land use map that depicts the distribution of different intended land uses,
- and possible supplemental use districts, geographic overlays, or unique
zoning tools — each of which is intended to implement the vision of the
Community Plan.
