Las Venturas City Planning Department

Type	LOCATION
Las Venturas City Planning Department
Overview of the building.
Appears in	Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Location	Come-A-Lot, Las Venturas.
General Specifications
Type	Planning department
Map
Location on the map (red).

The Las Venturas City Planning Department is a municipal government building featured in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.

Description

Located near the Come-A-Lot casino in southeastern Las Venturas, the building, as its name implies, is the headquarters for Las Venturas' urban development. The building houses blueprints for several of the city's buildings. The building is only accessible during the mission Architectural Espionage. The player can also enter the building via the Hidden Interiors Universe.

The interior consists of four floors. In the first floor, there is a lobby with a long reception desk and two doors, one of which leads to out-of-order restrooms and the other leads to an office. There are three vending machines in the first floor, two in the lobby and one in the office. The second floor consists of five office rooms with random pedestrians working on computers and an empty room – this room is completely closed during the mission Architectural Espionage. The third floor consists of a first aid room, a small office, a depository room and an inaccessible empty room. There are also three vending machines in the third floor. The top floor is a restricted area which consists of several blueprints, including a miniature building of the Caligula's Palace, however, the area will not give the player a wanted level.

Events of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

Carl Johnson infiltrates the building to obtain the photograph of a blueprint of the Caligula's Palace. Carl causes a distraction to make everyone in the building to evacuate in order to get the photograph. After the photograph of the building's layout is obtained, LVPD officers storm the building and attack Carl with security guards assisting the officers. Eventually, Carl escapes from the building and deliver the photograph to The Four Dragons Casino with safely.

Influence

This building, along with the building hosting an inaccessible The Well Stacked Pizza Co. branch on the Old Venturas Strip, is based on 600 S Las Vegas Blvd, formerly known as the Alan Bible Federal Building, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Gallery

Rear view.

Entrance doors.

Interior

Lobby.

Another view of the lobby.

Entrance door to the office in the first floor.

Office in the first floor.

Entrance to the second floor.

Staircase to the second floor.

Entrance to the lobby in the second floor.

Lobby in the second floor.

First office room in the second floor.

Second office room in the second floor.

Third office room in the second floor.

Fourth office room in the second floor.

Fifth office room in the second floor.

An empty room in the second floor.

Entrance to the lobby in the third floor.

Lobby in the third floor.

Entrance to the first aid room.

First aid room.

Document depository room.

Entrance to the offices in the top floor.

Offices in the top floor.

Caligula's Palace blueprint.

Starkweather's Estate blueprint.

Carcer City Church in East Los Albos.

Caligula's Palace miniature.

Trivia

• In two rooms on the top floor, the blueprints of Starkweather's Estate from the Rockstar's 2003 video game Manhunt can be seen by the player. Interestingly, the blueprints feature only the parts of the mansion rendered during the scene Key Personnel, completely omitting the attic and the dome-shaped room.
• Similarly, the other two rooms also feature 3D drawings of the East Los Albos district, including Carcer City Church from the scene Drunk Driving from Manhunt. It even features the Carcer City Police Department step-van parked in the same location as during the gameplay scene in Manhunt.
• If the player attains a high wanted level while inside the department, police officers can still spawn and attack the player.
• The Caligula's blueprint can only be seen during the Architectural Espionage. The player cannot see the blueprint if they enter the building during free roam.