Harbor LA Community Plans Update

 

Wilmington-Harbor City Recommended Plan	Interactive StoryMap	What is a Community Plan?
Harbor Gateway Recommended Plan

Note: More information on the new Harbor LA Zones and new zoning video series can be found under the Draft Plans tab.

The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously at its meeting on September 9, 2025 to adopt the Harbor Community Plans (Council Files 25-0774 and 25-0775).

Among the Plans key strategies are approaches to:

• Address the history of contamination and incompatible land use patterns.
• Create hybrid industrial areas that prioritize jobs-producing uses and serve as a buffer between residential and heavy industrial uses.
• Encourage mixed-use and equitable transit-oriented development at key locations.
• Revitalize existing commercial areas through zoning regulations for improved street frontage and pedestrian-oriented design standards and by promoting a diversity of uses that serve the needs of the community.
• Preserve industrial districts and improve their function and visual character through new zoning regulations for improved street frontage, screening and quality building design.
• Maintain stable single- and multi-family residential neighborhoods and apply new zoning regulations for appropriate neighborhood massing.

Most of these strategies will be implemented using the new Zoning Code, of which the Plans are the third batch of Community Plans in the City to adopt, that provides a streamlined approach for development.

Since 2018, the Plans have evolved significantly in response to public feedback, ranging from thoughtful individual stakeholder comments, to comprehensive analysis provided by organized stakeholder groups. The Harbor Plans team is grateful for this hard work and collaboration to ​​create and implement a vision for the future of the Harbor Plan geographies.

What’s Next for the Plans?
Following City Council approval of the Plans the implementing ordinances must be reviewed and finalized by the City Attorney to ensure clarity of regulations and consistency with state law, a process. After the form and legality process is complete, the Plans will be brought into effect by the City Council. Please note that the draft materials on this website will be updated once the finalized versions become available after the form and legality process. You can also access final ordinance documents, as well as other files related to the Plans by viewing the Council Files Nos. 25-0774 (Wilmington-Harbor City) and 25-0775 (Harbor Gateway) on the City Clerk’s Council File Management System website.

We thank you for your thoughtful feedback in shaping the Plan and for your sustained engagement throughout the entire process to reach this important milestone! To stay up to date on the Plan’s implementation process, sign up to our mailing list for email updates.

The Harbor LA Community Plans Update

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The Harbor LA Community Plans consist of two of the City’s 35 Community Plans: Harbor Gateway and Wilmington-Harbor City. Community plans constitute the Land Use Element of the General Plan, the long-range planning document that presents the goals and policies for the future of its neighborhoods.

The Los Angeles Department of City Planning updates Community Plans periodically to ensure that the land in each community is able to accommodate future generations of people and jobs in a way that is aligned with the environmental, land use and development goals for the region.

Community Plans establish goals and policies to guide future land use and development within each Community Plan Area. Community Plans consist of a Community Plan policy document and a General Plan Land Use Map. Land use designations establish the general location and intensity of different uses of land. Each land use designation has corresponding zones which regulate the size, shape, location, and use of buildings on a given property. The Community Plan Update is an opportunity to make needed changes or updates to land use designations and zoning for a community plan area. As part of this community plan update, new zoning developed through the comprehensive update of the City’s Zoning Code will be applied.

Existing Community Plans

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