Draft Plan Bay Area 2040 Released; Public Invited to Comment Online or at Open Houses

SAN FRANCISCO, April 3, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- The Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) today released the Draft Plan Bay Area 2040. After two years of public discussion and technical work, the draft Plan Bay Area 2040 is an updated long-range Regional Transportation Plan and Sustainable Communities Strategy for the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area. This document discusses how the Bay Area will grow over the next two decades and identifies transportation and land-use strategies to enable a more sustainable, equitable and economically vibrant future.

The effort grew out of the California Sustainable Communities and Climate Protection Act of 2008 (California Senate Bill 375, Steinberg), which requires each of the state's 18 metropolitan areas – including the Bay Area – to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from cars and light trucks. Plan Bay Area 2040 is a limited and focused update of the region's previous integrated transportation and land use plan, Plan Bay Area, adopted in 2013. View the draft Plan Bay Area 2040 at www.2040.planbayarea.org

MTC and ABAG have scheduled open houses in each of the nine Bay Area counties for comment on the draft Plan Bay Area 2040. Residents are encouraged to attend a workshop where they can view displays, ask questions and offer comments on these documents. The full list of open houses is as follows:  

Three public hearings also are opportunities for interested residents to comment on the Draft Plan and its Draft Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for Plan Bay Area 2040, which is slated for release on April 17, along with a Draft Transportation-Air Quality Conformity Analysis for Draft Plan Bay Area 2040 and Amended 2017 Transportation Improvement Program on May 1. The full list of public hearings is as follows:

Members of the public also are encouraged to view and comment on the draft plan online at www.2040.planbayarea.org. Comments will be reviewed by officials from both agencies as they consider the adoption of the final Plan Bay Area 2040, slated for July 2017. Written comments will be accepted at the open houses; via mail to MTC Public Information, 375 Beale Street, Suite 800, San Francisco, CA, 94105; via fax to 415.536.9800; or via email to [email protected].

The comment period for all documents will close on Thursday, June 1, 2017, at 4 p.m.

Questions? Visit www.PlanBayArea.org, email [email protected], or call 415.778.6757.

Accessible Meetings

Do you need an interpreter or any other assistance to participate? Please call 415.778.6757 or 415.778.6769 for TDD/TTY three days in advance.

¿Necesita un intérprete u otra asistencia para participar? Por favor llámenos con tres días de anticipación al 415.778.6757 o 415.778.6769 para TDD/TTY.

您是否需要翻譯員或任何其他幫助才能參加呢？請提前三天致電.

ABAG is the Council of Governments and official regional planning agency for the 101 cities and towns, and nine counties of the Bay Area. MTC is the transportation planning, financing and coordinating agency for the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area.  

SOURCE Metropolitan Transportation Commission