Thoughtful and effective planning enables a city to grow responsibly while providing the community with a variety of opportunities to live, work, and enjoy an environment. Good planning plays a vital role in shaping the future of Long Beach by providing the perfect balance of new development, community preservation, essential services, and economic growth. This map shows two key layers to planning: zoning and land use. It also includes historic districts and parking impacted areas. This map is used in the Zoning and General Plan web mapping application.Zoning Regulations divide the City into districts within which the location, height and bulk of buildings or structures and the uses of buildings, structures or land are regulated as specified. The municipal code defines zoning in Chapter 21.30. The Long Beach General Plan is a policy document that sets forth the goals, policies, and directions the City will take to achieve the vision of the community. The Land Use layer shown in this map is from the Land Use Element established in 1989.The Parking Impacted Area was developed through an extensive parking survey conducted with the help of a consultant to determine residential areas in which at least 75% of the on-street parking spaces were occupied at night.Historic districts are areas containing groups of older houses that are intact and unaltered. While each building may not be individually worthy of landmark status, collectively they preserve the visual qualities and ambiance of the past. Streetscape features, such as trees or light standards, may contribute to the historic value of the district.For more information, please see the Community Development Department website. Map updated 11/2019.

Zoning ordinances, in conformance with the City's General Plan, regulate land use development within the City of Long Beach. Within each zoning district, the zoning regulations specify the permitted and prohibited uses, as well as the development standards including setbacks, height, parking, and design standards, among others. Data updated to authoritative database as ordinances are approved by the City Council. This layer is updated weekly by script and was last updated 2024-08-17. For more information about zoning, please see the City of Long Beach Planning Bureau website: https://www.longbeach.gov/lbcd/planning/current/zoning/

This polygon layer identifies the land use element of the General Plan. The General Plan sets forth the goals, policies and directions the City will take in managing its future. The General Plan is the citizens' "blueprint" for development; the guide to achieving "our" vision. California law requires each local government to adopt a General Plan. Land use is one element of the General Plan.A newer Land Use Element is in effect as of 12/2019, however the land use classifications in this layer are still in effect in portions of the city including the Coastal Zone.DATA SOURCE: General Plan Land Use Element (1989) and approved resolution amending the Land Use Element of the General Plan (1989)MAINTENANCE: Updated as resolutions are approved by the Long Beach City Council. A newer land use element is now in effect, so future updates are expected to be minimal (only processing updates which had initiated before new LUE was approved). REFERENCE: City of Long Beach General Plan document

This polygon layer defines the flood zones for determining whether a property or structure in question lies within a Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA) as defined by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). A SFHA is also known as the 100-year floodplain. It is more precisely defined as the floodplain associated with a flood that has a 1-percent-annual chance of being equaled or exceeded in any given year. Therefore the SFHA is not a flood event that happens once in a hundred years, rather a flood event that has a 1-percent chance of occurring every year.

The City Council designates historic landmarks, historic districts, historic places and historic objects by city ordinance. Historic districts are geographic areas containing groups of older houses that are intact and unaltered. While each building may not be individually worthy of landmark status, collectively they preserve the visual qualities and ambiance of the past. Streetscape features, such as trees or light standards, may contribute to the historic value of the district. For more information about Historic Districts, please visit the City of Long Beach, Development Services website.

A neighborhood is generally defined spatially as a specific geographic area and functionally as a set of social networks. Neighborhoods, then, are the spatial units in which face-to-face social interactions occur—the personal settings and situations where residents seek to realize common values, socialize youth, and maintain effective social control.

Long Beach 2040 Height Standards are used to regulate the overall massing and scale of buildings, allowing reasonable compatibility between different buildings and uses and to ensure an adequate density and intensity of development along City transit corridors. Building heights create harmonious, pedestrian-sensitive visual settings in low-density residential areas, enhancing the livability of a neighborhood. Building Heights are an important factor in construction costs.DEPARTMENT RESPONSIBLE: Community DevelopmentDATA SOURCES: RES-19-0189 (Dec 3rd, 2019)MAINTENANCE: Updated as resolutions are approved by the Long Beach City CouncilCITY WEBSITE: https://www.longbeach.gov/lbcd/planning/advance/general-plan/ RELATED DATA: Long Beach 2040 General PlanUSED FOR: Zoning and Land Use Public Web Application

Please see the California Coastal Commission and the Long Beach Local Coastal Program for more information.Layer: GIS.Planning\GIS.CoastalZoneOwner: CA Coastal Commission

Long Beach 2040 General Plan serves as a comprehensive guide on urban form and land use for the long-term development of the City to meet the needs of the City’s evolving demographics, foster neighborhood enhancement, and plan for diverse open spaces, promote employment and revitalize commercial centers and corridors, and address land use, circulation, housing, conservation, open space, noise and safety. PlaceTypes is a new approach to land use planning that de-emphasizes specific uses and focuses on the form and character of Long Beach’s unique neighborhoods and districts and allows for a wide variety of compatible and complementary uses to create district and “complete” residential neighborhoods, employment centers, open spaces and other areas. Eleven PlaceTypes provide a comprehensive and more flexible way of planning for the future of Long Beach.DEPARTMENT RESPONSIBLE: Community DevelopmentDATA SOURCES: RES-19-0189 (Dec 3rd, 2019)MAINTENANCE: Updated as resolutions are approved by the Long Beach City CouncilREFERENCE: https://www.longbeach.gov/lbcd/planning/advance/general-plan/ RELATED DATA: Long Beach 2040 Height USED FOR: Zoning and Land Use Public Web Application

This raster dataset was developed for the Sea Grant South Coast MPA Baseline Program as part of the project “Nearshore Substrate Mapping and Change Analysis using Historical and Concurrent Multispectral Imagery” (#R/MPA 30 10-049). The study region is the South Coast Region (SCR). Imagery was acquired on October 05, 2012 at a spatial resolution of 0.3 meters using a Microsoft UltraCam-X digital camera acquiring in the red, green, blue and near-infrared bands. Information on the UltraCam-X camera system and wavelengths for each ban can be found in the file "The Microsoft Vexcel UltraCam X.pdf" included in the Support folder on the image data delivery media and on the OceanSpaces.org server. This image mosaic product is a result of the resampling of the 0.3 meter data to 1 meter GSD. Details on this system and the data processing are below in the Lineage section of this document. Individual UCX image tiles were mosaicked into sections based on the islands covered and local coastal regions as well as the SCR MPA zones in order to generate this multispectral image product. These imagery were subsequently used to generate habitat classification thematic maps of the SCR's intertidal region and kelp beds from Point Conception to Imperial Beach, CA. The imagery files deliverd are in GeoTIFF format. More information on the classes resolved and processing methods are in the Lineage section of this document. This raster dataset contains a habitat classification of either offshore giant kelp beds and/or the intertidal zone along the California South Coast Region (SCR) from from Point Conception, CA down to Imperial beach, CA. This specific raster classification includes the Long Point SMR, Blue Cavern SMCA, and the Arrow Point to Lion Head Point SMCA. This dataset was originally uploaded to Oceanspaces (http://oceanspaces.org/) and the Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity (KNB, https://knb.ecoinformatics.org/data) in 2013 as part of the South Coast baseline monitoring program. In 2022 this dataset was moved to the California Ocean Protection Council Data Repository (https://opc.dataone.org/) by Mike Esgro (Michael.Esgro@resources.ca.gov) and Rani Gaddam (gaddam@ucsc.edu). At that time the GIS analysis products were added to the dataset. The long-term California MPA boundary and project info tables can be found as a separate dataset here: https://opc.dataone.org/view/doi:10.25494/P64S3W.

This map depicts the City's fire response zones and the Battalion districts.

Our Garage Resale Program requires any property owner selling a residential building within the designated parking impacted area to sign off on a report regarding the availability of legally required off-street parking spaces. If the property is not included in the parking impacted area, this program does not apply.

While Long Beach is less likely than other areas of the State to experience earthquakes, all of California is at higher risk compared to the rest of the country. In an attempt to mitigate potential damages, California passed the Alquist-Priolo Earthquake Zoning Act on December 22, 1972.This pdf map visualizes inferred and known fault lines as well as Alquist-Priolo Special Studies Zones within the City of Long Beach.