Are You Within 500 Feet?

Whether it’s near a gas station, dry cleaner, or an auto body shop, many residents of the South and Southeast Los Angeles Community Plan Areas (CPAs)—collectively known as South Central Los Angeles—live, work, play, study, and worship within close proximity to a hazardous land use. The presence of industry near sensitive populations is a land use condition known as “incompatible land use.” According to the Health Atlas for the City of Los Angeles, 21% (or approximately 59,000 individuals) of Southeast LA CPA residents lived adjacent to noxious land uses in 2013. And according to CalEnviroScreen (CES) 3.0, the 2017 update of the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment’s (OEHHA) environmental mapping tool, a vast majority of South Central LA census tracts score in the top 5-10% of census tracts that are disproportionately burdened by multiple sources of industrial pollution, including hazardous waste generators and contaminated tracts of land.

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