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County General Plan Update Program

“Shaping the Future 2025”

The Los Angeles County General Plan, a comprehensive statement of public policy guiding long-term development and resource protection, is a tool for initiating and responding to change. The General Plan identifies goals, principles, standards, and plan proposals in the form of text, maps and diagrams. Its components establish a framework for future development and use of unincorporated County land.

The General Plan provides for the many diverse unincorporated communities scattered throughout the County. It also includes more specific area, community, and coastal plans to address issues at the local community level.

The Process

To begin the public input process at an early stage, visioning workshops were conducted throughout the county, followed by scoping meetings designed to identify potential impacts to be addressed in the Environmental Impact Report required for adoption of the General Plan. From these meetings a framework for the updated General Plan was prepared. The initial document to present this information to the public for review and input was “Shaping the Future 2025”. The document contained all the staff-drafted goals and policies of the Plan, and was the subject of 21 community workshops and invited presentations throughout the county in 2004. Following these workshops, all input was considered in preparing the Draft Preliminary General Plan.

“Shaping the Future 2025” - (Download PDF)

“Shaping the Future 2025” articulated six countywide goals, and was the foundation for the development of the draft preliminary General Plan: