LongBeach.biz is Long Beach, before you spend. It is written for people with something at stake in Long Beach, California: someone opening or moving a business, a property owner or contractor deciding what a project needs, a vendor trying to sell to the City or the Port, a visitor arriving for a cruise, a convention, a Catalina crossing or a flight, and anyone who needs a Long Beach number they can trust.
The city publishes its rules well and joins them up poorly. The business license lives with one department, the health permit with another, the zoning with a third and the building permit with a fourth, and almost none of those pages carry a date. This site puts the pieces in the order a reader needs them, states every fee and threshold with the date it was checked, and links the rule it came from. Where the city’s own pages disagree with each other, the article says so and shows both.
It does not do what other Long Beach sites already do. There is no business directory, no restaurant guide, no list of things to do, no news and no real-estate listings. Visiting pages answer logistics questions only: where to park, which train, how early, how far. The site describes process and cites the code; it does not give legal, tax or investment advice.
The site is independent. It is not affiliated with the City of Long Beach, the Port of Long Beach, Long Beach Transit, Metro, Carnival, Catalina Express, the Aquarium of the Pacific, the Queen Mary, the Long Beach Convention Center or any business, hotel or operator it writes about.
Who publishes it
LongBeach.biz is published by Webhaus LLC, 2108 N St, Ste 4030, Sacramento, CA 95816. Webhaus LLC also publishes guides to other places and is responsible for everything on this site.
Who writes it
Dana Castellano is the editorial byline of the LongBeach.biz team at Webhaus LLC, not the legal name of a single person. Articles under that byline are researched from what the city, the Port, the state and the operators publish on their own pages, drafted with the help of AI research and writing tools, and checked against the cited sources by a person before publication, as the editorial policy describes. Nothing on this site is a first-person account; the authority comes from the sources, which are listed at the bottom of every article with the date each was checked.
The data pages
The Data section turns the city’s open data into readable analysis: how many businesses the city licenses, what opens and closes each month, what residents report through 311 and how long the city takes to close it, how much housing gets permitted. Every data page carries a provenance box naming the dataset, the period, the date it was fetched and the method, and the methodology page explains the definitions and exclusions. The data is used under the City of Long Beach’s open-data terms, which allow it to be copied, adapted and used commercially; the city does not endorse this site or its analysis.
How the site is researched
Every article cites its sources with numbered references, and the Sources list at the end gives the page, the publisher and the date it was checked. Sources are used in this order: the City of Long Beach and its departments, the municipal code, the Port, state and county agencies, the operator’s or venue’s own site for Visiting pages, then established news reporting for its own facts. Forums, review sites, contractor marketing pages and other blogs are never the cited source for a fact.
Fees, thresholds, caps, routes and parking rates are stated as they stood on the date checked and phrased so a later reader is warned. The city’s fee schedules change on October 1 and some on July 1; pages that carry fees are re-checked after each change. If something is wrong or out of date, use the contact page and it will be corrected.
How the site makes money
LongBeach.biz earns commissions from some links to hotels, tickets, transfers and parking on Visiting pages and to business services on Business pages, and may show advertising. Those links never influence what is recommended, and pages say so where they appear. Details are on the affiliate disclosure page.