DnA’s story about zoning starts on the observation deck on the twenty-sixth floor of Los Angeles City Hall, the tallest building in Los Angeles from 1928 until building height rules changed in the ...

The City Council voted Wednesday to place ... Councilman Jose Huizar, who represents part of northeast Los Angeles, said the zoning changes would preserve the character of hillside neighborhoods ...

The Los Angeles City Planning Commission voted ... than 450,000 new homes over the next five years. Because the city’s current zoning can’t handle all that growth, city planners have been ...

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced Wednesday the start of a five-year effort to rewrite the city’s 67-year-old zoning code. “We need to update the zoning code to reflect the ...

The city’s traffic and housing crises date back a century, when Los Angeles first became dependent on the automobile and exclusionary zoning. Ever since, municipalities across the country—from ...

And today, America’s second-largest city is facing its own natural disaster, and a set of choices for how to rebuild. In the coming months and years, the Los Angeles housing market, already ...

From there you can look at Los Angeles in every direction, and Ashley Atkinson, section director of the American Planning Association’s LA chapter, points out how the region is subdivided by zoning ...