North Long Beach (Uptown) Plan

The Uptown Planning Land Use and Neighborhood Strategy (UPLAN) is a collaborative effort between the City and the North Long Beach community to come up with laws and policies to guide future development and create a new vision in North Long Beach. The UPLAN was designed to build upon past planning and visioning efforts for Uptown. Through a multi-year, community-centered process, community needs such as access to quality housing, jobs, and transportation options have been prioritized in zoning and transportation recommendations for the North Long Beach area.  Learn more about the UPLAN process by visiting the community engagement station of the UPLAN virtual open house.

UPLAN’s equity-based framework is focused on both changes to zoning and land use regulations and the planning process itself. North Long Beach was prioritized for the first comprehensive zoning code update in 30 years because of the community's history and marginalization of its Black and brown residents. UPLAN has been grounded in a community power and capacity-building process in which the people most impacted by planning decisions, including young people, renters, and people of color, are prioritized in the process and had their voices and feedback uplifted, leading to special recommendations. These recommendations include incentivizing grocery stores, banks, more affordable housing, locally-serving jobs, civic institutions and other identified needs. UPLAN also includes strategies to help residents, workers, and businesses to remain in North Long Beach.

New zoning recommendations for the Atlantic and Artesia corridors were adopted in November 2020 and can be found here. Additional zoning recommendations and a Neighborhood Mobility Enhancement Plan will be considered for adoption in Summer 2024. You can find out more about both at the UPLAN Virtual Open House.