December 23, 2011. If 2010 was the year of setting targets, 2011 was the year of Sustainable Communities Strategies (SCSs), with plans adopted or underway all across California. With so much happening, we wanted to use this holiday season to pause and reflect on how far we have come as a state toward making our [...]
San Diego and SB 375: Lessons from California’s first Sustainable Communities Strategy By Eliot Rose, Autumn Bernstein and Stuart Cohen. On October 28th 2011, the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) approved the first sustainable communities strategy (SCS) under Senate Bill 375, California’s groundbreaking regional planning law. The plan was the subject of intense scrutiny [...]