"University of California, Davis, researchers have launched a new online database that can help community members, policymakers and advocates view and compare local governments’ vision for the future with the California General Plan Database Mapping Tool.

California law requires that each of the 482 cities and 58 counties develop and adopt a general plan, which is a comprehensive long-term plan for the development of those communities. But generally, there has been no one place to access those plans. The new database allows users to look at those plans in one place using search terms.

The new tool was created by a team led by Catherine Brinkley, associate professor of community and regional development and faculty director for the Center for Regional Change. Brinkley said she hopes this tool will give people the ability to better coordinate efforts to solve some of communities’ most pressing issues."

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