East LA 3rd Street Specific Plan

Contact Information

East LA Community Plan Update
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For more information regarding the East LA 3rd Street Specific Plan, please contact Community Studies I at (213) 974-6425 from 7:30am to 5:30pm, Monday through Thursday. Our offices are closed on Fridays.

Overview

The Los Angeles County Department of Regional Planning is pleased to announce our partnership with the award-winning Architecture and Urban Design consulting firm, Moule & Polyzoides to work on Phase 1 of the East Los Angeles Community Plan Update. Phase 1 proposes a Specific Plan for the East Los Angeles portion of the METRO Gold Line Eastside Extension 3rd Street corridor. Phase 2 of the East Los Angeles Community Plan will begin at a later date and will update the community plan for all remaining areas of East Los Angeles. The current East LA Community Plan was created in 1988.

The 3rd Street Specific Plan will include principles of Transit Oriented Development which offers compact, sustainable, human scale and pedestrian-friendly planning solutions as an alternative to automobile-oriented developments and urban sprawl. The plan will guide future development approximately a half mile north and half mile south of the four Gold Line Transit Stations on 3rd Street and Pomona Boulevard. The plan will not result in any eminent domain actions by the County of Los Angeles .

This is an opportunity for the residents, business owners, and other stakeholders in East Los Angeles to actively participate in designing and guiding the appropriate future land use and transit oriented development in their community.

Community Participation

As part of the community outreach for this project an East Los Angeles Planning Advisory Committee (ELAPAC) has been created to serve as an advisory body throughout the community planning process. The ELAPAC is comprised of twenty one (21) members of the East Los Angeles community, eight (8) of which were elected to represent each of the eight neighborhoods in East Los Angeles and the remaining thirteen (13) were appointed by the Supervisor. A brochure explaining all the details of the election was mailed to every household in East Los Angeles the week of June 8, 2009 Election Brochure, Nominees, Results of July 7th East Los Angeles Planning Advisory Committee Election, and the List of ELAPAC Appointees.

Four Discovery Workshops for Phase 1 of the Community Plan Update were held in East Los Angeles beginning July 13, 2009 through July 25, 2009. The same material was covered at each of the four workshops which were held in different locations in East Los Angeles in order to be as convenient as possible for residents and business owners in East Los Angeles (Discovery Workshops Catalog), (Discovery Workshops Flyer and Schedule), (Discovery Workshops Presentation - PDF, 25 MB), (Discovery Workshops Summary).

The Big Picture Workshops and the Design Solutions Workshops are now complete for the East LA 3rd Street Specific Plan. The Big Picture Workshops were held in September where the focus was on macro or Big Picture issues in the 3rd Street Specific Plan area. The Design Solutions Workshops in October focused on design solutions for the plan area. A compilation of the maps and drawings produced by the consultants as a result of community input and further analysis from all of the four Big Picture and four Design Solutions workshops were combined into the Design Solutions Catalog.

Public Workshops Outreach Materials ; Big Picture Workshop Presentation (29 MB - PDF); Design Solutions Workshops Summary

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ELA Discovery Workshop 1 - July 13, 2009
ELA Discovery Workshop 2 - July 14, 2009
ELA Discovery Workshop 3 - July 21, 2009
ELA Discovery Workshop 4 - July 25, 2009

Online TOD Resources

Caltrans: California Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Searchable Database
Access and search detailed information on 21 Transit-Oriented Developments (TODs) in California - also called transit villages - such as: land uses, site maps, implementation processes, financing, facilities, zoning, design features, pedestrian access, transit services, photos, travel benefits, contact information, and other valuable data.
MTC: Transit-Oriented Development [Transactions Online, September/October 2006 Issue]
Transactions Online is an award-winning monthly newsletter published by Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC). MTC is the transportation planning, coordinating and financing agency for the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area.
Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) The Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) is the designated Metropolitan Planning Organization for six counties: Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, Riverside, Ventura and Imperial. SCAG is mandated by the federal government to research and draw up plans for transportation, growth management, hazardous waste management, and air quality.