The zoning ordinance translates the City of Santa Monica’s General Plan into specific regulations. With the adoption of the 2010 Land Use and Circulation Element a comprehensive Zoning Update project was undertaken. The most recent update to the Zoning Ordinance went into effect March 30, 2017. The updated document can be found here New and Interim OrdinancesRecently passed ordinances For projects located in the Downtown, the Downtown Community Plan is in effect. Please see the Downtown Community Plan for more information. https://www.smgov.net/Departments/PCD/Plans/Downtown-Community-Plan/

These are the main layers that were used in the mapping and analysis for the Santa Monica Mountains Local Coastal Plan, which was adopted by the Board of Supervisors on August 26, 2014, and certified by the California Coastal Commission on October 10, 2014. Below are some links to important documents and web mapping applications, as well as a link to the actual GIS data:

Plan Website – This has links to the actual plan, maps, and a link to our online web mapping application known as SMMLCP-NET. Click here for website. Online Web Mapping Application – This is the online web mapping application that shows all the layers associated with the plan. These are the same layers that are available for download below. Click here for the web mapping application. GIS Layers – This is a link to the GIS layers in the form of an ArcGIS Map Package, click here (LINK TO FOLLOW SOON) for ArcGIS Map Package (version 10.3). Also, included are layers in shapefile format. Those are included below.

Below is a list of the GIS Layers provided (shapefile format):

Recreation (Zipped - 5 MB - click here)

Coastal Zone Campground Trails (2012 National Park Service) Backbone Trail Class III Bike Route – Existing Class III Bike Route – Proposed

Scenic Resources (Zipped - 3 MB - click here)

Significant Ridgeline State-Designated Scenic Highway State-Designated Scenic Highway 200-foot buffer Scenic Route Scenic Route 200-foot buffer Scenic Element

Biological Resources (Zipped - 45 MB - click here)

National Hydrography Dataset – Streams H2 Habitat (High Scrutiny) H1 Habitat H1 Habitat 100-foot buffer H1 Habitat Quiet Zone H2 Habitat H3 Habitat

Hazards (Zipped - 8 MB - click here)

FEMA Flood Zone (100-year flood plain) Liquefaction Zone (Earthquake-Induced Liquefaction Potential) Landslide Area (Earthquake-Induced Landslide Potential) Fire Hazard and Responsibility Area

Zoning and Land Use (Zipped - 13 MB - click here)

Malibu LCP – LUP (1986) Malibu LCP – Zoning (1986) Land Use Policy Zoning

Other Layers (Zipped - 38 MB - click here)

Coastal Commission Appeal Jurisdiction Community Names Santa Monica Mountains (SMM) Coastal Zone Boundary Pepperdine University Long Range Development Plan (LRDP) Rural Village

Contact the L.A. County Dept. of Regional Planning's GIS Section if you have questions. Send to our email.

In October 2018, the City Council adopted the Land Use Plan (LUP) for the Santa Monica Coastal Zone/ It is currently pending certification (anticipated in January 2020). City Planning has begun work on two projects for the Local Coastal Program Implementation Plan (IP): the Coastal Zoning Ordinance (CZO) and the Low-Cost Lodging (LCL) Fee Update. A New Zoning Ordinance for the Coastal Zone Based upon the existing Zoning Ordinance, the CZO will be a new section of the Municipal Code establishing zoning rules for all properties located in the coastal zone. It will implement specific coastal policies through development standards and conditions that will be contained in Coastal Development Permits (CDP), which the City will issue once the CZO is certified. For example, CDPs will include conditions for proposed projects in sea level rise hazard zones, special environmental protection requirements, beach access provisions and restrictions for projects within identified view corridors and vantage point viewsheds. What does a Fully-Certified LCP mean for the City?With a certified CZO, residents and businesses in most of the coastal zone will no longer apply to the Coastal Commission for CDP approvals and waivers. Instead, this review will be integrated with the City Planning application process. It is not anticipated that development of the CZO will significantly change development standards contained in the existing Zoning Ordinance. The CZO will mainly integrate coastal policies with current zoning policies and standards and remain consistent with the Civic Center Specific Plan and the Downtown Community Plan. In the most sensitive areas near the coastline and bluffs, the Coastal Commission will retain CDP authority or serve as an appeals body for certain City-issued CDPs.

Existing Single Family Residential Land Use dataset from SCAG (LU 16) clipped to the Santa Monica Mountains Griffith Park Linkage Analysis study area. The data is derived from the draft version of SCAG's 2016 land use dataset, updated as of November 2018, including general plan land use, specific plan land use, zoning code and existing land use.

The Bergamot Area Plan, adopted September 10, 2013, is a focused planning effort called for in the 2010 LUCE intended to give voice to community preferences for land uses, circulation networks, infrastructure, parking strategies, open space, the arts, and design of buildings in the mixed-use, transit-oriented Bergamot area. The Plan was partially funded by a HUD Community Challenges grant encouraging compact, mixed-use development linked to transit. The Bergamot Area Plan was initiated to help transition 142.5 acres of former industrial land into a walkable, sustainable, and innovative complete neighborhood.

Alquist-Priolo Fault Zones from the California Geological Survey

2010 Land Use and Circulation Element (LUCE)The Land Use Element and Circulation Elements are key components of Santa Monica’s General Plan, establishing the City’s land use, urban design, and transportation vision. These policy documents provide a long-term framework for implementing this vision, and are a tool for good decision making. They provide flexibility for changes in the City’s economy and land use, and establish criteria and measurements for periodically assessing how well the community’s goals are being met and if adjustments to the policies are necessary.The 2010 Land Use and Circulation Element (LUCE) update is a vision and plan for the next 20 years, and reflects a 6 year community input process. The recently adopted comprehensive rewrite of the Zoning Ordinance implements many aspects of the LUCE, and provides clear, accessible and easily administered Zoning Ordinance that can be understood by all. The Zoning Update allows land use policies to be translated directly into standards that implement the goals and objectives of the Land Use Element on a daily basis.As part of the Zoning Update, several aspects of the LUCE were amended. Additionally, the LUCE was amended on July 25, 2017 following the adoption of the Downtown Community Plan.

Existing Residential Land Use dataset from SCAG (LU 16) clipped to the Santa Monica Mountains Griffith Park Linkage Analysis study area.

Layers representing the projected tsunami inundation area, the evacuation route and sites. Learn more about the City of Santa Monica's Tsunami Response Plan at https://www.smgov.net/Departments/OEM/Preparedness/Multi-Hazard_Plan.aspx

From the Santa Monica Municipal Code 9.28.110:Unbundled parking is the practice of selling or leasing parking spaces separate from the purchase or lease of the commercial or residential use.A. Applicability.1. Residential Projects. All off-street parking spaces in new residential structures of 4 dwelling units or more, or in new conversions of nonresidential buildings to residential use of 10 dwelling units or more as shown in Figure 9.28.110, Areas Requiring Unbundled Parking, shall be leased or sold separately from the rental or purchase fees. This provision shall only become effective if SMMC Chapter 3.08, Preferential Parking Zones, or any successor thereto, is amended to establish this requirement.2. 100% Affordable Housing Projects. 100% Affordable Housing Projects shall be exempt from this provision.3. Nonresidential Projects. All off-street parking spaces associated with new nonresidential projects as shown in Figure 9.28.110, Areas Requiring Unbundled Parking shall be leased or sold separately from the rental or purchase fees.4. Notwithstanding the above, the unbundling requirements set forth in this Section may become optional and not mandatory, if, to the extent legally feasible, the City imposes substitute measures which would achieve a comparable level of vehicle trip reduction. FIGURE 9.28.110: AREAS REQUIRING UNBUNDLED PARKING B. Requirements.1. All off-street parking spaces shall be unbundled from the dwelling units for the life of the dwelling units.2. Residential units of 3 or more bedrooms shall have 1 parking space bundled with the lease or ownership of the unit for the life of the development.3. For deed-restricted affordable units, the tenant may choose to either receive 1 parking space, which shall be included within the unit’s affordable rent level, or receive a rent discount equivalent to half the amount charged for monthly lease of a parking space, in exchange for not receiving a parking space. Tenants of affordable units shall not be permitted to sublease their parking spaces.4. All commercial parking spaces associated with new development shall be unbundled from the cost of a leased commercial space, and the cost of the parking space shall be included as a separate line item in the commercial space lease.C. Use of Unbundled Spaces. Owners or lease holders have the right of first refusal to parking spaces built for their unit or use. Remaining residential unbundled parking spaces that are not leased or sold to on-site users built for their unit or use may be leased to other on-site users or to off-site residential users on a month-to-month basis. Remaining commercial unbundled parking spaces that are not leased or sold to on-site users may be leased to other on-site users or to off-site residential or commercial users on a month-to-month basis.D. Reoccupancy of Use. New owners or leaseholders shall have the opportunity to lease or purchase parking spaces built for their unit or use upon occupancy of the commercial or residential use. (Added by Ord. No. 2486CCS §§ 1, 2, adopted June 23, 2015)

This geodatabase includes the boundaries of the California Natural Resource Agency’s State Conservancies. The collection of the State Conservancies boundaries was initiated in January 2012 by the Sierra Nevada Conservancy, and the geodatabase was updated in 2022 to include Sierra Nevada Conservancy boundary expansion. The geodatabase was constructed from GIS data requested from each of the State Conservancies. The following documentation describes the contacts who provided data, and where available, the type of spatial information provided. Baldwin Hills Conservancy: A shapefile of the Baldwin Hills Conservancy boundary was requested and received from Amanda Recinos, amanda@greeninfo.org, of GreenInfo Network on behalf of the Executive Officer of the Baldwin Hills Conservancy, David McNeill, on 10 January 2012. This boundary has not been modified from the original boundary provided. California State Coastal Conservancy: The California State Coastal Conservancy was updated by San Jenniches, sjenniches@scc.ca.gov, of the Coastal Conservancy in Fiscal Year 2014-2015. The SNC did not receive the boundary directly from the Coastal Conservancy; the feature class was provided by Nickolas Perez, Nickolas.Perez@water.ca.gov, of the California Natural Resources Agency to the SNC on 30 April 2015. Coachella Valley Mountains Conservancy: A shapefile of the Coachella Valley Mountains Conservancy boundary was requested and received fromKerrie Godrey, kgodfrey@cvmc.ca.gov, of the Coachella Valley Mountains Conservancy on 10 January 2012. This boundary has not been modified from the original boundary provided. Delta Conservancy: A shapefile of the legal Delta and Suisun Marsh boundaries were provided by Elisa Sabatina with the Delta Conservancy, Elisa.Sabatini@deltaconservancy.ca.gov, on 10 January 2012. This boundary has not been modified from the original boundary provided. Rivers and Mountains Conservancy (San Gabriel/Lower LA): A shapefile of the Rivers and Mountains Conservancy was provided by Luz Torres, ltorres@rmc.ca.gov, of the Rivers and Mountains Conservancy on 10 January 2012. This boundary has not been modified from the original boundary provided. San Diego River Conservancy: Michael Nelson, mnelson@sdrc.ca.gov, the Executive Officer of the San Diego River Conservancy reported via email on 11 January 2012 that no prior GIS boundary existed for the Conservancy. Mr. Nelson provided written consent to the SNC, via an email dated 11 January 2012, to develop the San Diego River Conservancy GIS boundary from a PDF document supplied by Mr. Nelson that showed the general location of the San Diego River Conservancy’s boundary as occupying a one half mile buffer from the San Diego River. This boundary has not been modified from the original boundary provided. San Joaquin River Conservancy: The San Joaquin River Conservancy boundary was created from using both the legislation description of the boundary and a pdf version of the San Joaquin River Conservancy boundary provided by Marile Colindres, marile.colindres@sjrc.ca.gov, of the San Joaquin Conservancy on 24 February 2012. This boundary has not been modified from the since the creation of the boundary from the legal description in 2012. Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy: The SNC was not able to acquire GIS data from the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy staff; therefore, the SNC created a boundary to represent the Santa Moninca Mountains Conservancy by using the description of the Conservancy from their website. Specifically, the SNC used the text from their website to select watersheds for GIS boundary: “the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy zone covers an area from the edge of the Mojave Desert to the Pacific Ocean. The zone encompasses the whole of the Santa Monica Mountains, the Simi Hills, the Verdugo Mountains and significant portions of the Santa Susana and San Gabriel Mountains. In addition, the Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority also owns or manages thousands of acres in the Sierra Pelona Mountains and in the Whittier-Puente Hills. From north to south, these areas drain into the Santa Clara River, Calleguas Creek, numerous smaller coastal watersheds in the Santa Monica Mountains, and the Los Angeles River and Rio Hondo.The Sierra Nevada Conservancy (SNC) boundary was mapped to correspond with statute AB 2600 (2004) and as re-defined in SB 208 (2022). Work on the boundary was completed by CalFire, GreenInfo Network, and the California Department of Fish and Game. Meets and bounds description of the area as defined in statute: PRC Section 33302 (f) defines the Sierra Nevada Region as the area lying within the Counties of Alpine, Amador, Butte, Calaveras, El Dorado, Fresno, Inyo, Kern, Lassen, Madera, Mariposa, Modoc, Mono, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Shasta, Sierra, Siskiyou, Tehama, Trinity, Tulare, Tuolumne, and Yuba, described as the area bounded as follows: On the east by the eastern boundary of the State of California; the crest of the White/Inyo ranges; and State Routes 395 and 14 south of Olancha; on the south by State Route 58, Tehachapi Creek, and Caliente Creek; on the west by the line of 1,250 feet above sea level from Caliente Creek to the Kern/Tulare County line; the lower level of the western slope’s blue oak woodland, from the Kern/Tulare County line to the Sacramento River near the mouth of Seven-Mile Creek north of Red Bluff; the Sacramento River from Seven-Mile Creek north to Cow Creek below Redding; Cow Creek, Little Cow Creek, Dry Creek, and up to the southern boundary of the Pit River watershed where Bear Creek Mountain Road and Dry Creek Road intersect; the southern boundary of the Pit River watershed; the western boundary of the upper Trinity watershed in the County of Trinity; on the north by the boundary of the upper Trinity watershed in the County of Trinity and the upper Sacramento, McCloud, and Pit River watersheds in the County of Siskiyou; and within the County of Modoc, the easterly boundary of the Klamath River watershed; and on the north in the County of Modoc by the northern boundary of the State of California; excluding both of the following: (1) The Lake Tahoe Region, as described in Section 6605.5 of the Government Code, where it is defined as "region" (2) The San Joaquin River Parkway, as described in Section 32510. According to GreenInfo Network and the California Department of Fish and Game, the blue oak woodland used to define a portion of the Sierra Nevada Conservancy's western boundary was delineated using referenced vegetation and imagery data.The Tahoe Conservancy boundary was created by using the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA) boundary received from the Tahoe Conservancy staff and clipping the TRPA boundary to the State of California boundary, using the Teale Albers projection. The TRPA boundary was received by the SNC from the Tahoe Conservancy staff in 2011, and the Tahoe Conservancy boundary was created by the SNC in 2012. Notes:Some conservancy boundaries overlap.

From Santa Monica Municipal Code 4.12.050:The properties hereinafter described are hereby assigned to the following noise zones: Noise Zone I. All property in any residential district established by Municipal Code Subchapter 9.04.04 or any revisions thereto. In addition, property zoned Low Density Multiple Residential Beach District (R2B), Medium Density Multiple Family Coastal Residential District (R3R), Ocean Park Single Family Residential District (OP1), OP Duplex Ocean Park Duplex Residential District (OP-Duplex) OPD, Ocean Park Low Multiple Residential District (OP2), Ocean Park Medium Multiple Residential District (OP3), and Ocean Park High Multiple Residential District (OP4) shall be included in this noise zone. The Santa Monica Pier shall be excluded from this noise zone. Noise Zone II. All property in any commercial district established by Municipal Code Subchapter 9.04.04 or any revisions thereto. In addition, property zoned Beach Parking District (BPD), Civic Center (CC), Bayside Commercial District (BSCD) and the Santa Monica Pier shall be included in this noise zone. Noise Zone III. All property in any manufacturing or industrial district as established by Municipal Code Subchapter 9.04.04 or any revisions thereto. In addition, property zoned Light Manufacturing and Studio District (LMSD) shall be included in this noise zone. (Added by Ord. No. 2115CCS § 1, adopted 2/24/04)