The Community and Economic Development Agency, Strategic Planning Division, in coordination with the Planning Commission, maintains the General Plan and the Planning Code, and prepares area plans. The current General Plan adopted in 1998 and in effect until the year 2015, defines the long range goals and intentions of the community regarding the nature and direction of future development within the City of Oakland. The Planning Code specifies land uses and development standards for specific zoning districts. Area plans are intended to translate General Plan policies into sustainable development alternatives in specific areas of the City.

Contact: Eric Angstadt, Strategic Planning Manager (510) 238-6190

Citywide Policies

• General Plan
• General Plan Map
• Zoning Code
• Interactive Zoning Map
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Planning Efforts Underway

• Zoning Code Update



• Proposed Estuary Specific Plan
  
The Estuary Specific Plan would compliment the zoning update effort by implementing the Estuary Policy Plan (an element of the General Plan). The Plan would refine the policies of the Estuary Policy Plan for the Estuary area, and by studying existing conditions and surveying community values, create a development scheme for the area. Priority infrastructure improvements would be identified within the waterfront area and funding mechanisms established.

Draft Estuary Specific Plan Scope of Work
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• Transit Oriented Development Zone
  
Regulations for Transit Oriented Development are being updated to ensure that development on, and near, BART stations is well-designed and friendly to pedestrians. The new regulations will initially apply only to two areas: around Fruitvale and West Oakland BART stations.


• Temescal Design Guidelines and Regulations
  
The General Plan calls for development intensification of the City’s corridors, including portions of Telegraph and Shattuck Avenue within the Temescal neighborhood. The Temescal Design Guidelines and Regulations would seek to implement these objectives, while gracefully integrating new development within the existing context of smaller-scale, historic buildings. Draft Temescal Design Guidelines and Regulations will tentatively be discussed at the January 16, 2008 meeting of the Planning Commission. The draft version of the documents will be available online prior to the Planning Commission meeting.


• Broadway Retail Frontage Interim Combining Zone Regulations
  
The proposed interim regulations are designed to preserve ground-level retail activities in the commercial areas of Broadway north of the Central Business District. These interim controls are proposed to be in place while the City prepares a Specific Plan to develop Upper Broadway as a regional shopping attraction.

Other Planning Resources

• Oakland Waterfront Promenade/ Bay Trail Alignment Feasibility Study and Design Standards
  
In response to citizen interest for improved recreational opportunities at the Oakland waterfront, this document contains a feasibility study, and site plan with design standards for public access to the waterfront.

• Lake Merritt Master Plan
  
The document provides a plan for revitalizing the Lake Merritt Park and sets clear goals for improving the design, function and ecological value of the Park.

• Environmental Review Documents
  
Contains California Environmental Quality Act reports