February 7, 2012. The draft SCS for Southern California’s 6-county megaregion hit the streets in December. The plan’s nearly 2000 pages and whopping $525 billion pricetag are reminders of just how much is at stake. The good news is that if all the components of the plan come to fruition, Southern California will achieve its [...]
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 [...]
Cross-posted from Move LA’s Blog. By Gloria Ohland. November 8, 2011. SCAG’s policy committees and 83-member Regional Council voted almost unanimously Nov. 3 to release the “preferred alternative” for the 2012 Regional Transportation Plan and Sustainable Communities Strategy (RTP/SCS) on Dec. 1. Move LA’s technical analysis of the plan suggests that it’s a pretty good [...]
By Autumn Bernstein, Stuart Cohen, and Eliot Rose. October 28, 2011. Many SB 375 watchers have opined that the law’s success will require a “marathon, not a sprint” since the inertia of existing transportation and land use plans is so powerful. But as others have pointed out, the challenges faced by our communities and our [...]
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