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.

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

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/

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Special setback line means a setback line, on a lot or several lots, established by separate ordinance adopted by the City Council. The special setback line, which supersedes the normally required setback line, may be greater or less than the setback prescribed in the development standards for the particular land use district in which the lot or lots may be located. Whenever a special setback line is established in accord with the zoning regulations, the setback area shall be considered a required yard area. The special setback line and setback area shall take the place of the otherwise applicable yard requirements for the zone district, except that when the regular setback of the district is greater than a special setback, the regular setback shall supersede the special setback and be controlling.

The LA County Office of the Assessor maintains assessment records of real and personal property in the County of Los Angeles. Many of these records are available for sale. The data is available in the form of CD-ROM, DVD, hardcopy, and on-line access. The Office of the Assessor also offers a GIS Tax Parcel Base Map.Some layers included (not an exhaustive list):parcel boundary map (shapefile format) local roll LA County wall map publicly owned parcels sales list unsecured roll and labels (for mailings) A discussion of parcel accuracy occasionally questions about the spatial accuracy of parcel information come up. In general, it is important to note that the parcels are for tax assessment purposes only, come from many sources, some historical, and are not necessarily survey grade. That said, they are in general extremely reliable.Here is a longer description from Emilio Solano, former Chief Cadastral Engineer of the Assessor Mapping and GIS Services:The very short answer is this: our data is in its majority accurate within a couple of feet, in other cases will not be so accurate.The issue of accuracy when applied to assessor’s data is very subjective. Our data is very accurate if we consider that all the information matches recorded information, we try our best to keep recent data as it was recorded, and older data gets slightly adjusted to match the most recent data. Another factor to consider is that about one third of the total number of new parcels created every year comes from deeds, not subdivision maps, that is, there is not, in the majority of the cases, any new survey data, more likely general descriptions of where the new boundaries should exist, or references to adjacent properties, even calls to documents recorded many years ago, referring to them just by the document number. In those cases we have to consider the intent of the owner when describing the property in the deed. Another couple of factors that have an impact in the accuracy of our data comes from the fact that we assembled this vast amount of information with digital data provided from at least a dozen of cities, Los Angeles, Long Beach, Torrance, etc. plus all the data gathered by the Los Angeles County Dept. Public Works in CAD format. We had to compile all that data, rectify it and adjusted as needed, always keeping in mind that the integrity of the data should be maintained by matching RECORDED information. Another factor is that the data was also coming from tens of thousands of individual recordings, it wasn’t as clean cut as when you look at a single subdivision, no matter how big, where every line is clearly identified by a bearing and a distance within a perfectly traced boundary. Our original data sources even go back as far as remainder pieces of land described by Spanish grants and ranchos, section land plus newer surveys.Even though we always input our data based on survey records using COGO tools, whenever possible, a lot of the data is not. Considering all that, our GIS layer is by far, the most accurate data set of its size available anywhere in the county, both in positional accuracy, and conformity to the information provided by legal sources. All that being said, the resulting fact is that, as mark mentioned, in some areas our data will be very accurate, in others it won’t. The most important thing to keep in mind is that given that our responsibility is to reflect property information as recorded, we do not use anything else as a guide, for example we never use an aerial image to change the position of a line just because it doesn’t fall on top of a fence shown on a photo; remember that many people build their fenced, especially the ones made out of concrete blocks, a couple of inches inside the property boundary because is difficult to dig a trench along an existing wooden or wire fence, now multiply those little variances spread out over a 4000+ square miles of land and you will get a picture of what we are up to. That's why we continually try to stress in anybody using our data that, if they need total accuracy they will need to hire a surveyor to get it. Our 11 by 17 maps are our only official source of information and should only be used for assessment purposes, or in the case of other uses, just for information, to get an accurate idea of how close to the real location a line could be.