The multi-year process that will eventually engender a string of entirely reimagined waterfront plots along the LA River has entered its next phase after county officials released their final master plan last week.

The documents offer an update to the County proposal first introduced in 2016 by Supervisors Hilda Solis and Sheila Kuehl. The plan will now be submitted to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for review at a meeting scheduled for June 14th. 

Said to create a “kit of parts” that potentially includes the $1 billion-plus Taylor Yard G2 site and a total of 77 others (22 of which are considered new), the master plan is said to provide a “toolkit” for community revitalization that addresses core areas of climate change, biodiversity, homelessness, and gentrification. 

The master plan incorporates the state’s Lower LA River Revitalization Plan and is currently the only initiative that will affect the entire 51-mile waterway from the origin point in the Simi Hills to its terminus in San Pedro.

“We explored areas of social, cultural, and ecological disparity, including homelessness, gentrification, public open space, public health, and community and environmental inequities in infrastructure,” L.A. County Public Works Director Mark Pestrella said of the finalized proposal. “The result is a Plan that recognizes the river as a complex ‘system of systems’ in which people, places and the environment are encouraged to coexist, intermingle and thrive.”

More details can be found here. Stay tuned to Archinect as we follow the project’s ongoing development and implementation.