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Environmental Design Library
Finding General Plans![]()
Finding General Plans is a bibliographic research guide to locating general plans, especially for California and the San Francisco Bay Area, in the UC Berkeley libraries. It supports a number of UC Berkeley city planning classes, including CP 110 (Introduction to City Planning), CP 118AC (The Urban Community), and CP 200 (History of City Planning). This guide also provides Web links to many full text resources. For additional assistance please consult the reference staff of the Environmental Design Library, 210 Wurster Hall.
About General Plans
Finding General Plans
Special Collections
Selected Reference Sources: General | California
Bay Area City Plans
Bay Area County & Regional Plans
Campus Libraries
UC Berkeley faculty, registered students, and staff who are off campus may use items marked UCB Only or UC Only by using The Library's off-campus access services.
Last updated: 4 June 2009 ![]()
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Note that in California state law requires that each general plan contain the following seven elements: circulation, conservation, housing, land use, noise, open-space, and safety, as defined in the California Government Code (Title 7, Division 1, Chapter 3, Article 5, Section 65302). Optional elements often adopted include economic development, infrastructure, public services and facilities, and recreation. Both required and optional elements may be published as a single document or as individual items or both. To identify the elements included in the general plan of a specific California jurisdiction, consult The California planner's book of lists, California Office of Planning and Research. For a straightforward introduction to the general plan in California, see A Citizen's guide to planning (California Office of Planning and Research, 2001).
- A public guide to community decision making
- An assessment of the community's needs
- A statement of community values, goals, and objectives
- A blueprint for the community's physical development
- A public document adopted by the government
- Continuously updated as conditions change
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Housing policy--[place name] Real estate development--[place name] |
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The following subject headings are examples of ways to search for specific areas or neighborhoods within a city:
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The Institute of Governmental Studies Library (IGSL) maintains the most complete collection of California city and county planning documents on the UC Berkeley campus. Ranging from the 1940s to the present, the collection is fully cataloged and does not circulate. Since 1983 catalog records have appeared in the Melvyl® online catalog; earlier catalog records are in the Library's card and book catalogs.
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County Planning Agencies & Plans
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Regional
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Regional plan update report, Dec. 2008.
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Design Library
210 Wurster Hall Institute of Governmental Studies Library 109 Moses Hall |
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Compiled by Deborah Sommer
City Planning & Landscape Architecture Librarian
Environmental Design Library