The Downtown Shoreline is a Shoreline for Everyone!
We welcome your participation and feedback to help shape the future of Downtown’s gateway to the waterfront. The Downtown Shoreline is a regional amenity that serves ALL Long Beach residents and visitors. We encourage your participation to have your voice heard.
Let’s chat about the future of Downtown Shoreline.
This 5-minute survey, will allow you to give your input on the Vision of the Downtown Shoreline area and weigh in on community values, concerns and aspirations when thinking of what you would like the Downtown Shoreline area to look like. Your participation is an invaluable piece of creating Everyone’s Shoreline to benefit all Long Beach residents.
Everyone is invited to discuss and evaluate opportunities, challenges and tradeoffs of "BIG IDEAS" that are under consideration. These “BIG IDEAS” act as prompts to encourage discussion and think big without constraints and are not recommendations or design proposals. Rather, they provide an opportunity to explore a Downtown Shoreline vision for Everyone and gather community input in the creation of a preferred scenario that will be presented to the Planning Commission and City Council.
Comments and questions regarding the Downtown Shoreline Vision Plan can also be submitted via email to DowntownPlan@longbeach.gov with the subject line “Downtown Shoreline Public Input.”
A key component of the City’s commitment to an inclusive planning process is the establishment of a Community Roundtable to represent the various interests in the plan area and provide input and guidance on visioning and design documents at key milestones.
The Roundtable will reflect and represent residents, business operators, workers, property owners, and other stakeholders. Its special focus will be on economic development and tourism, resiliency, equity, mobility, housing, recreation, and sustainability. The Roundtable members will assist the planning and design team by identifying priorities, opportunities, and constraints for the Downtown Shoreline; supporting the development of a comprehensive planning vision statement, providing feedback on vision design alternatives, and helping to solicit the participation of the broader community at key points in the process.
The first Community Roundtable meeting was held on November 9, 2023. View the meeting materials below:
The second Community Roundtable meeting was held on January 24, 2024. In development of a comprehensive planning vision statement, the community roundtable provided input and guidance in the draft guiding principles and supporting aspirational statements. The community roundtable provided feedback on priorities, opportunities, and constraints for each of the guiding principles and will assist in development of the vision design alternatives and solicit participation from the broader community.
View the meeting materials below:
We hosted the Community Design Charrette, an ideas exchange, that kicked off June 13th with a presentation at the Aquarium of the Pacific. Throughout the series of events, interested stakeholders, the public and Downtown Shoreline planning team members engaged in educational and thought-provoking activities to help shape The Vision of Downtown Shoreline.
We hosted a joint open house for the Long Beach Downtown Plan Update and Downtown Shoreline Vision Plan on Saturday Sept. 9, 2023. View the Open House presentation video and boards below!
Those who were not able to attend the event are invited to provide input by completing our Feedback Form. We look forward to your participation!
In addition to the Community Open House, staff hosted pop-up booths at the following events to provide more information on the efforts and receive feedback:
