Welcome to the Plan Bay Area 2050 newsletter!
Here’s what is coming up this month...
Special Note: Long-Range Planning Continues Despite COVID-19
While the Bay Area has been affected by COVID-19 along with the rest of the country and world, work is continuing on Plan Bay Area 2050. Addressing our region’s long-term housing, transportation, economic, and environmental challenges remains an important priority. We continue to make progress from home, and we are developing plans for remote participation in stakeholder meetings and public engagement. We will keep you updated as the situation progresses.
Plan Bay Area 2050 Draft Blueprint Moves Forward
In February 2020, both the MTC and ABAG boards approved the proposed Growth Geographies and Strategies for the Plan Bay Area 2050 Draft Blueprint, enabling analysis of the Draft Blueprint which is now underway. This action advanced many of the high-performing strategies from the Horizon initiative in 2018-19, and it integrated revisions based upon feedback from thousands of members of the public and hundreds of technical stakeholders this past fall and winter.
Responding to the boards’ request to be “bold and unflinching,” the Draft Blueprint is exploring transformative strategies into the Plan Bay Area 2050 process for the first time. This includes encouraging inclusive growth beyond Priority Development Areas (PDAs), pricing critical corridors to reduce traffic congestion, providing means-based discounts to low-income residents for tolls and transit, and protecting critical infrastructure and vulnerable communities from rising sea levels.
What’s on Deck for the Rest of 2020?
There’s much more to come with Plan Bay Area 2050 this year. MTC/ABAG staff are now moving forward with analysis of the Draft Blueprint – to understand how it moves the region towards the adopted Vision and Guiding Principles for Plan Bay Area 2050. This work is expected to stretch throughout spring 2020, followed by public and stakeholder engagement this summer.
By fall 2020, MTC and ABAG will consider further refinements to the Growth Geographies and Strategies for the Plan Bay Area 2050 Final Blueprint. We encourage you to get engaged and provide input on how we can make Plan Bay Area 2050 throughout the months ahead!
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