The Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) last night adopted Plan Bay Area, an integrated transportation and land-use strategy through 2040 that marks the nine-county region’s first long-range plan to meet the requirements of California’s landmark 2008 Senate Bill 375, which calls on each of the state’s 18 metropolitan areas to develop a
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Thursday, July 18, 2013 ALERTTonight's Plan Bay Area adoption meeting starts at 6:30 p.m. at the Oakland Marriott and will be webcast live. Now you can tune in with your iPhone, iPad or other smart phone as well as a desktop computer. Link to the audiocast here.
Plan Bay Area is in the home stretch, with policy makers from MTC and ABAG considering suggested changes to the draft document based on comments received during the spring round of public outreach.
Friends, family and other well-wishers joined Bay Trail trekker Kurt Schwabe for his homecoming on Saturday, June 29, 2013. As Schwabe, his wife Linda and their poodle mix, Oscar Wilde, walked north along San Francisco’s Bay waterfront, members of the welcoming party headed south, meeting him halfway on the final three-mile leg of his month-long journey.
(Information is tentative; please check back for updates)
Date/Location / MeetingJune 149:30 a.m.Joseph P. Bort MetroCenter
101 8th Street, Oakland
MTC Planning Committee with ABAG Administrative Committee
MTC and ABAG need your help as we begin work on the Draft Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for Plan Bay Area. The EIR is a legally required document that will assess the environmental impacts of the proposed land-use changes and transportation investments in the long-range plan. What environmental issues should be analyzed? Are there alternatives that should be evaluated?