Planning Division
The Planning Division provides staff support to the City Council and Planning Commission in formulating and administering plans, programs, development standards, and legislation for guiding the City’s development in a manner consistent with the City’s General Plan. The Division’s primary goal is to ensure and enhance the quality of life in the City through the administration of the La Puente Municipal Code relative to zoning and subdivisions, the City’s General Plan, the California Environmental Quality Act, and a variety of interrelated laws involving the public health, safety, and welfare.
Planning Projects for Public Review
La Puente Zoning Code Update (Housing Element Program 3)
The project focuses on implementing Program 3 of the City's 6th Cycle Housing Element to facilitate infill development and expand affordable housing opportunities. Join us for a Community Workshop on September 18, 2025, from 6 PM to 8 PM at the Community Center.
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La Puente Mixed-Use Places Project (Housing Element Program 6)
The La Puente Mixed Use Places Project is designed to help revitalize underused commercial properties by transforming them into lively, walkable areas that include community gathering spaces. As part of this effort, the City is updating its General Plan and Zoning Code to permit a blend of residential, commercial, and community uses on the same site.
By encouraging mixed-use development in existing urban areas near public transit, the project supports community well-being, environmental sustainability, and local economic growth.
Click here to learn more about the Mixed Use Places Project ➚Help shape this important project! Take this short survey and share your thoughts:
Click Here to Take Survey ➤Upcoming Community Workshop:
Join us this Friday, September 19th Outreach Event. Click on the flyers below for details:
Past Community Workshop:
Tuesday, September 9th virtual workshop. Click on the flyers below for details:
Saturday, August 23rd in-person workshop. Click on the flyers below for details:
Draft Hazard Mitigation Plan
The City of La Puente is currently updating its Hazard Mitigation Plan (HMP). This update will allow the City to reassess risks associated with natural disasters, enhance existing strategies, and develop new measures to better protect lives and property from future events.
The draft Hazard Mitigation Plan is available for public review.
📄 Click here to view the document
Annual Progress Report on Housing Element - 2024
At the City Council meeting on April 22, 2025, the Council directed staff to receive and file the 2024 Housing Element Annual Progress Report and to submit it to the California Department of Housing and Community Development and the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research.
📄 Click here to view the 2024 Annual Progress Report Summary
The Zoning Code provides regulations for land use and development within the City of La Puente. It ensures that growth is consistent with the City’s General Plan and helps maintain community character, safety, and quality of life.
🔗 View the full Zoning Code Ordinance (PDF)
Access the official, adopted version of the City’s Zoning Code.
🌐 Explore the Online Interactive Zoning Code
Easily search, browse, and navigate zoning regulations in an interactive format.
To access the City’s Zoning Map, click on the following link:
To access the City’s Interactive Zoning Map, click on the following link:
The City of La Puente General Plan documents our shared vision of tomorrow and defines the steps to progress from the present to the future. The General Plan is a long-range policy document (with a projected horizon of 15 to 20 years), frequently referred to as the guidebook or “blueprint” for our City’s development. This blueprint directs the look, the feel, and the experience of our City now and in the future.
To access the City’s General Plan, click on the following link:
City of La Puente General Plan
To access the City’s General Plan Map, click on the following link:
Housing Element
The Housing Element is one of the seven state-mandated elements of the City of La Puente’s General Plan and provides a framework to address the existing and projected housing needs of our community’s economic segments. The Housing Element is required to be updated every eight years to ensure compliance with any changes in State housing laws, consider changes in demographics, and demonstrate the ability to meet future housing needs.
Housing Element Update 2021-2029
On October 7, 2022, the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) certified the City of La Puente’s 2021-2029 (6th Cycle) Housing Element. The final adopted and certified Housing Element and Appendices are made available for viewing by clicking on the link below.
The certified Housing Element, as required by State law, identifies and analyzes existing and projected housing needs in order to preserve, improve, and develop housing for all economic segments of the community. The Housing Element also demonstrates how the City will accommodate its fair share of regional housing needs and includes a Housing Program, which establishes goals, policies, and implementation actions to address the City’s Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA). No physical development or construction of housing is proposed with this Housing Element, as it is a required component of the City’s General Plan.
La Puente 2021-2029 (6th Cycle) Housing Element and Appendices (Certified 10-7-2022)
Environmental Justice Element
The Environmental Justice Element is the plan that sets clear goals and actions to reduce health risks from the environmental pollution on our community.
Environmental Justice Element Final Adopted Document
Community Safety Element
The 2024 Community Safety Element addresses natural hazards including, but not limited to fire, seismic, and flood risk, and provides goals, policies, and actions that build capacity and increase resilience to these hazards. In accordance with Senate Bill 379, the updated Community Safety Element assesses the City’s vulnerability to hazards created or exacerbated by climate change and further identifies adaptation and resilience goals. This Community Safety Element updates La Puente’s current 2004 Community Safety Element, which addresses hazard mitigation, emergency response, noise, and safety services. La Puente’s 2024 Community Safety Element update also includes a replacement of all sections with the exception of noise, which will be addressed in its own stand-alone general plan element upon its next update.
Specific Plans define the vision for various communities and development areas in the City. These plans include development standards (e.g. lot coverage, setbacks) for private properties and public infrastructure planning distinct from the rest of the City.
Unruh Specific Plan
Local Hazard Mitigation Plan
The Hazard Mitigation Plan prepared in response to Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000 (DMA 2000). DMA 2000 requires state and local governments to prepare mitigation plans to document their mitigation planning process, and identify hazards, potential losses, mitigation needs, goals, and strategies. This type of planning supplements the City’s comprehensive land use planning and emergency management planning programs.
To access the Local Hazard Mitigation Plan, click on the following link:
Click here to view the document.
Safe Routes To School Master Plan
Safe Routes To School (“SRTS”) is a strategy that improves pedestrian and bicycle travel conditions around schools in order to increase opportunities for students and their families to use active modes of transportation to get to and from school. SRTS is typically divided into two categories, infrastructure and non-infrastructure. Infrastructure, also called engineering, seeks to improve the physical built environment that makes active modes of travel safe, convenient, and comfortable.
To access the Safe Routes To School Master Plan, click on the following link:
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Senior Planner
Juan Galvan, MPA
Phone: (626) 855-1538
Email: jgalvan@lapuente.org
Assistant Planner
Karen Iñiguez
Phone: (626) 855-1512
Email: kiniguez@lapuente.org
