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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Good evening, and welcome to tonight's Plan B Area Public Hearings. We're going to give people a couple of minutes to join the virtual room, and we'll get started momentarily.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: I can see that we are, in fact, having a few people joining, so we will get started momentarily, and we'll give people another minute or so to join.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Okay, let's go ahead and get started.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Good evening, and welcome to tonight's public hearings for Draft Plan Bay Area 2050+, and the Draft Environmental Impact Report for Plan Bay Area 2050+.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: My name is Veronica Cummings, and I'm the Principal Public Information Officer for Engagement at the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and the Association of Bay Area Governments, or MTC ABAG.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: I will be facilitating tonight's public hearings in coordination with my colleague, Leslie Lara-Enriquez, who is at the Fremont location this evening, assisting the attendees who were able to join in person.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: We are also joined via Zoom by our colleagues Adam Nolting, Alex Eisenhardt, Anna Liu, and our EIR consultants Amy Higuera and Carrie Zajac.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: And we also have, in the room in Fremont, our colleague Marcella Aranda.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: We also have a certified court reporter with us this evening, Rosaline, and Rosaline will be transcribing your comments to ensure that we capture all of your comments accurately.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: For our online participants, if you're experiencing technical difficulties, please send a message to our staff via the chat box for support.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Next slide, please.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: This is our agenda for this evening's meetings.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: We'll start with an overview of the logistics for the hearings to ensure that everyone who wishes to speak can participate fully in today's hearings.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: We'll then move on to an overview of the draft plan, followed by a brief opportunity to ask clarifying questions.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: I want to emphasize that tonight's meeting is a public hearing, and that means that our primary goal is to hear from you.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: We are here to listen and capture your comments.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: If you do have substantial questions, we will ask that you send them via email so that our planning staff can provide you with a response. We'll share our email address multiple times throughout tonight's hearings.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: After we wrap up any clarifying questions on the draft plan, we will officially open the first public hearing, which will focus on the draft plan.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Once we officially close the first hearing, we'll then jump right into the second presentation, which will provide an overview of the Draft Environmental Impact Report, or EIR, for Plan Bay Area 2050+.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: There will be a second opportunity to ask clarifying questions, this time on the draft EIR, and then we'll open the second hearing, which will focus on the draft EIR.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Once we close the second hearing, we will end tonight's meeting with information on additional ways to submit your comments.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Next slide.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: For tonight's hearing, we have one ground rule that's important, and it's please be respectful. We will not tolerate profanity or insensitive comments, and if you can't be respectful, we'll ask you to leave.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: During the public comment portion, all speakers will have 2 minutes during each hearing.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: We are recording and transcribing this meeting, and we will post the recording and the transcript to the Plan Bay Area website.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: If you do have more substantial or detailed comments, again, please send them via email.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: I do want to emphasize that we have separate inboxes for comments on the draft plan and comments on the draft EIR.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: We ask that comments on the draft plan be sent to info at planbayarea.org, and comments on the draft EIR must be sent to EIRComments at bayareametro.org.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: All comments for both the draft plan and draft EIR, all comments must be received by December 18th by 5pm, and all of the comments will be entered into the official record.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Next slide, please.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: A few more logistics, before we go to the presentation.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: For in-person participants, if you're joining us at the Fremont location, we are asking… we are going to ask that you fill out a speaker card and hand them to Marcella if you wish to make public comment.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Please indicate which hearing you want to provide comment on.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: And if you want to comment during both hearings, you'll need to fill out two speaker cards.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: If you don't want to provide comments live, you can submit written comments to our team at the Fremont location.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: And if you have clarifying questions, please write them down and submit them to staff.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Next slide.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: For online participants, everybody in the Zoom, or who's participating on Zoom, will be muted during the hearing.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: And when I open the hearing, you can press the raise hand button to be added to the queue to provide oral comments.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Those who are joining us by phone will need to press star 9 to be added to the queue.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Please wait to raise your hand until the hearing is officially open.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: With regard to clarifying questions, though, if you have clarifying questions, please enter them into the Q&A box.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Don't enter them into the chat box, and we also will not be unmuting people, to have clarifying questions. So again, enter your clarifying questions into the chat box.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: As a reminder, if you have more detailed or substantial questions, please email them to info at planbayarea.org, and our planning staff will provide a response.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: With that, those are all the instructions for tonight's public hearings, and with that, I'm going to turn it over to my colleague Adam, who will provide an overview of the draft plan.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Next slide, and Adam, go ahead.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: Thank you, Veronica. I'm Adam Nolteen, a Principal Planner with MTC ABAG, and I will provide an overview of Plan Burea 2050+.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: Next slide.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: MTC is the federally designated metropolitan planning organization and the state-designated regional transportation planning agency for the nine-county Bay Area. MTC is responsible for planning, financing, and coordinating the region's transportation system. Next slide.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: The Association of Bay Area Governments, or ABAG, is a member-supported council of governments with responsibilities under state law related to housing and land use. ABAG also oversees several regional environmental programs.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: Together, MTC and ABAG form the Foundation for Plan Bay Area.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: Through this partnership, we plan, fund, and help implement the policies, projects, and programs that shape the region's future. Next slide.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: PlanBerry 2050 Plus began in mid-2023 as a limited and focused update to the previously adopted PlanBerry 2050.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: Over the last two-plus years, we've held 3 extensive rounds of engagement and received 3 approvals from the MTC and ABAC boards to advance the planning assumptions, policies, and investments that make up the plan's core, what we call the blueprint.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: This cycle also included a unique parallel initiative, Transit 2050+, a joint effort with the region's transit operators to create a more unified, rider-focused transit network in response to post-pandemic challenges, emphasizing safety, frequency, and rider-focused improvements.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: Recommendations from the separate have been integrated into the blueprint.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: Today's hearing is a part of the fourth and final round of plan engagement. We expect to return to MTC and ABAG boards in early 2026 for a final approval.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: Next slide.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: In 2008, the California Legislature enacted Senate Bill 375, requiring regional transportation plans, or RTPs, to more directly integrate land use and transportation planning to meet state climate goals through a Sustainable Community Strategy, or NSES.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: MTC and ABAC have been jointly developing Plan Bay Area every four years since then, advancing policies and investment priorities that guide how and where the region grows.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: It is important to note, however, that the plan remains a plan. It does many important things, but it does not override local land use authority or impose regional policies that, through mandate.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: Similarly, while it enables transportation projects to move forward.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: toward funding and construction phases, it does not directly allocate money to projects or strategies.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: Next slide.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: In September 2019, as part of Plan Bay Area 2050, MTC and ABAG boards adopted a vision for the region, a Bay Area that is affordable, connected, diverse, healthy, and vibrant for all by 2050.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: Flanbury 2050 Plus carries forward this vision and its guiding principles.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: Which emphasize that Bay Area residents have affordable housing options, and a safe and multimodal transportation system.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: Residents from all backgrounds, abilities, and ages can remain in place and access the region's resources.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: Residents can live and travel safely, and our natural resources are conserved.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: And the region leads innovation, creates ample job opportunities.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: and fiscal resources for all. Next slide.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: Alongside its guiding principles, the plan includes four interrelated elements, transportation, housing, the economy, and the environment.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: These elements are further broken down into 11 themes and 35 strategies, including 12 transportation strategies focused on a fix-it-first policy, healthy and safe streets, and transit expansion and enhancement.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: Eight housing strategies focused on the three P's, production, preservation, and protection.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: 6 economy strategies focused on improving economic mobility and shifting the location of jobs. And 9 environmental strategies focused on reducing hazards, expanding access to parks and open space, and reducing climate emissions. Next slide.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: There were several key updates in Plan Barrier 2050+.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: Including a clearer understanding of post-pandemic realities, continued remote work, slower transit recovery, slower population growth, and higher office vacancies than anticipated in 2021.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: Significantly lower transportation revenue forecasts, nearly $80 billion less, requiring difficult trade-off discussions and recalibrated housing strategies focused on reducing per-unit costs.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: It also included a reimagined vision for public transit through Transit 2050+, emphasizing fast, frequent all-day service, safety, and rider experience.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: A deeper integration of climate resilience, including the first-ever Sea Level Rise Resilience Project List, identifying funding needs for levees, seawalls, wetlands, and more.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: And throughout, a continued focus on high-impact strategies needed to meet the state's ambitious climate targets, including pricing, land use shifts, and electrification. Next slide.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: Growth geographies, as shown in the map here, are central to the draft plan. These areas prioritize future homes, jobs, services, and amenities near transit.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: They include a mix of locally nominated and regionally identified areas, and exclude places in very high fire hazard severity zones, areas subject to unmitigated sea level rise, and protected open spaces and parks.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: Growth geographies are expected to accommodate most of the region's future household and job growth, including 95% of new households anticipated between 2023 and 2050, and 72% of new jobs projected between 2023 and 2050.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: This slide highlights outcomes the region could see if the plan's strategies are implemented.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: By 2050, the region could experience lower housing and transportation costs for all households, with the largest benefits for low-income residents.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: More households living near frequent transit, and more jobs accessible by transit, biking, and walking.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: Higher home ownership rates among low-income households, more than double the share of commuters using transit, biking, or walking, expanded publicly accessible open space, and a significant increase in per capita

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: Gross regional product, reflecting a dynamic Bay Area economy.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: The draft implementation plan includes 65 actions focused on planning, funding, coordinating, advocating.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: Project delivery and supporting local jurisdictions, agencies, and other partners.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: These actions span all four elements.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: As well as several cross-cutting areas, and align with where MTC and ABAC have authority, funding, technical capacity, and public

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: And political support to act.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: Developed through extensive regional engagement, the actions reflect few key priorities.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: Keeping the list focused, ambitious, yet achievable.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: Building on successful pilot programs, and ensuring the region has the resources needed to maintain long-term progress.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: Next slide.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: for actions Cutting, that cut across all elements of the plan.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: MTC and ABEG will strengthen and streamline technical assistance, so it is easier to find

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: Easier to use, and better aligned with local needs.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: Building on this year's Accessible Futures Conference, the agency's aim to deepen engagement.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: with the disability community to ensure needs are fully understood and addressed. Additional priorities include analyzing post-COVID shifts in travel, work, and development patterns, and updating the regional framework for future population and job growth to better support local implementation.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: Within transportation, focuses on to securing new financial resources. MPC supports Senate Bill

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: supported Senate Bill 63, which authorizes a regional measure on the November 2026 ballot to sustain and improve Bay Area transit.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: MTC also plans to support easier, more seamless transit use region-wide by expanding both the Clipper Bay Pass program.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: for commuters, and the regional mapping and Wayfinding project for regular and new riders.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: In terms of looking at both the costs of projects and transportation costs for riders, MTC plans to explore how projects can be delivered more efficiently and cost-effectively, while also expanding affordability.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: and equity programs, such as the Clipper Start and Fast Track Start programs. By 23… by 2030, excuse me, MTC also intends to support the planning and design of active transportation projects that accommodate all ages and abilities, contributing to healthier communities where people can walk and bike more.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: Within housing and the economy, MTC and ABAG are also preparing for a potential 2028 housing revenue measure through the Bay Area Housing Finance Authority, BAFA.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: To address the Bay Area's ongoing housing affordability crisis, this measure would expand the reach and impact of already successful pilot programs, allowing more residents to access stable, affordable homes.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: The agencies will also pursue near-term funding to sustain existing regional housing programs and respond to local needs.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: The agency is also committed to enhancing and expanding the doorway housing portal to help residents find affordable housing.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: To enable climate-friendly housing and business development near transportation, MTC and ABAG will also support local jurisdictions and monitor implementation of MTC's transit-Oriented communities policy.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: Other planning priorities include updating the San Francisco Bay Area Goods Movement Plan to align with KEEP post-pandemic trends in the region.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: Within the environment, MTC and ABAG will also partner with the San Francisco Estuary Partnership and the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: To help communities plan, fund, and deliver projects and initiatives that address sea level rise and climate impacts, while also exploring how we can expand our technical assistance offerings in the seismic and wildfire spaces.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: The Bay Area Regional Energy Network, or BayREN, which is an ABAG regional program, will also continue building energy efficiency and resilience programs that benefit both renters and property owners, whether residential or commercial.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: MTC will also seek to scale up

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: and support local jurisdictions in expanding electric mobility options, whether through electric vehicles, EV charging, or e-bikes and scooters, while also working with partners across a range sectors to address common barriers to successful electrification.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: And next… next slide.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: So looking ahead to the plan's final milestone.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: Adoption of the final plan, Bay Area 2050+, by both the Commission and ABAG Executive Board. A few steps remain.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: Completing this final round of public engagement and the comment period.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: Reviewing all comments and preparing any needed revisions to the draft plan and draft EIR.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: In returning to the boards in early 2026 for adoption of the final plan.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: Plan Bay Area 2050+, and certification of the final EIR.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: I'm now going to hand it back to Veronica to facilitate clarifying questions, and then open up the first hearing.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: Veronica.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Alright, thank you, Adam.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Next slide.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: We are now going to open it up to clarifying questions attendees might have.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Please remember that detailed or substantial questions need to be submitted by email so that our planners can provide a response.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: So I'm going to hand it to Leslie, at the Fremont location to start us off with questions our in-person attendees might have. Leslie, go ahead.

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Staff: Leslie Lara-Enríquez, MTC-ABAG: Thanks, Veronica. Oh, one second.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: any logistical questions, please go ahead and type them into the Q&A box. And it looks like we have a question about the environmental element. Adam, could you clarify what is meant by the phrase, unmitigated sea level rise?

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: Yes, should I just note before a meeting on the draft EIR that perhaps the word mitigated was not the appropriate use for that discussion in the presentation, but in this case, what we're referring to is shorelines that do not have future,

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Staff: Leslie Lara-Enríquez, MTC-ABAG: Vermitha, if you want to come back to me?

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Fremont, California: We do have one question here in the room. Is the Transportation 2050 Plus plan also open for comments at this time?

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Fremont, California: And I can go ahead and answer that question. Yes, we are, receiving comments on the draft plan Bay Area 2050+.

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Fremont, California: The supplemental reports, which include the, transportation project list,

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Fremont, California: the methodology, the engagement that we've conducted, as well as the implementation plan, and, finally the draft ARR for Plan Bay Area 2050+.

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Fremont, California: We do have one more question. Is this likely to be the last PBA update, before the next 2031 housing element cycle, based on your usual timing between updates?

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: Luzzy, can you repeat that question? I'm sorry.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: Noting that previous presentations had an estimate for GHG reduction, both due to the 2050 plus plan, as well as expected changes due to more efficient vehicles expected to be on the road in the future.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: person who submitted this comment to refer to the climate change chapter of the draft EIR, I think this… that chapter should be able to provide us some additional context of what has been calculated in terms of emission reductions.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: As a result of implementing the plan.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: To, the email addresses that are available, that are posted in the chat box, so that we have the ability… our… a planner could respond to them.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Before I officially open the public hearing, I do want to highlight our robust engagement efforts.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Over the past two and a half years, we've hosted dozens of events, we've spoken with thousands of Bay Area residents, and we've received over 15,000 comments and collected over 40,000 data points.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Our outreach efforts reached over a million residents through email communications, web stories, paid digital promotions, and other activities that helped us raise awareness of the plan.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: And your input guided the development of the draft plan.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: If you want more details on our engagement activities, please see the draft public engagement supplemental Report to learn more.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: We are now going to get started with our first hearing, which will focus on Draft Plan Bay Area 2050+, the Draft Implementation Plan, and the draft supplemental Reports.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Comments on the draft EIR will be received during this second public hearing this evening.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: A little bit of information, before we officially open. On October 20th, 2025, MTC ABAC staff released the draft plan and the draft EIR for public review and comment.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: As part of the release of the draft plan, Senate Bill 375 requires that MTC and ABAC conduct three public hearings to receive comments on the draft plan.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Today is the second of those hearings, with each draft plan hearing followed by a public hearing on the draft EIR.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: One additional hybrid public hearing is scheduled for tomorrow, December 4th, 2025.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: The details for participating in the upcoming hearing are posted on the Plan Bay Area website at planbayarea.org forward slash draft plan.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: The public comment period will close promptly at 5pm on Thursday, December 18th, 2025.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: In addition to the public hearings, there are various other ways to submit written and oral comments. Complete details on the various ways to submit comments are available on the PlanBayarea.org website, and will be shared by staff after the public hearing.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Upon the close of the comment period on December 18, 2025, staff will prepare a summary of all public comments received to inform the Commission's and ABAG Executive Board's decision-making prior to considering adoption of the draft plan and its related supplemental reports.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: The Commission and ABAC Executive Board will consider adopting the draft plan in early 2026.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Now, let's get started with our first hearing.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: To ensure we capture all your comments correctly, our court reporter, Rosaline O'Brien, will be transcribing your comments as you make them.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: So that Rosaline can record your comments correctly, please begin by stating and spelling your name for the record, or state that you want your comment to be anonymous.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Every speaker will have 2 minutes to provide your comment, and again, if you have more substantial comments, we encourage you to either mail or email them to us.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Once we receive everyone's oral testimony on the draft plan, we'll close this first hearing.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Please be sure to make comments on the draft plan during this first hearing, and save any comments on the draft EIR for the second hearing.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: And now, the public hearing on Draft Plan Bay Area 2050 Plus and its related supplemental reports is officially open and is being transcribed.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: If you wish to testify and are participating in person at the Fremont location, please submit a speaker card, and Leslie will call on you to speak.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Once all in-person speakers have provided public comment, I will call on Zoom participants to provide comments.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: And again, if you're representing an agency or organization and want that included in the record, please also state your organization's name. Let's get started. We'll start with the in-person, we will start at the Fremont location, and I will turn it over to Leslie to facilitate in-person comments.

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Fremont, California: Thank you, Veronica. We don't have anyone in the room wanting to speak at this time. Oh, sorry. Thank you. We do have one… one speaker. Yes. If you can come up. You can come up here.

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Fremont, California: Or would I sit or stand? Oh, wait, you just stand right here? Oh.

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Fremont, California: And then, can I get your name? Douglas is my first name.

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Fremont, California: Can I stand right here? Yes, please. Haas is my last name. H-A-A-S? H-A-A-W… Maybe for the record, and our court reporter will get it. Okay, my name is, Douglas, Haas.

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Fremont, California: And, I applaud the, draft report for, doing a shout-out on page 40.

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Fremont, California: to the achievements of SMART up in Marin and Sonoma County, the, successful extension to Windsor, the previous, extension to Larkspur, and, a lot of people don't know that SMART's been an outstanding success.

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Fremont, California: But it's not people trying to get to San Francisco, it's people, regional travel, just…

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Fremont, California: putting around in Snowman Marin County, going to the Cheese Fair, going to a festival, just going for downtown Santa Rosa for a meal, and it's been a success.

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Fremont, California: to a broader, at least one section on the broader regional issues. For instance, the golden opportunity, since,

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Fremont, California: High-speed rail is not going forward right now because of the enormous budgetary constraints, billions and billions of dollars.

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Fremont, California: What's overlooked is there are real golden opportunity for additional, passenger rail on the coast corridor going to Los Angeles. There's no train from San Francisco to Los Angeles currently. Union Pacific is barely using the coast corridor. There's a lot of maintenance costs.

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Fremont, California: run the line, there's not enough freight traffic to pay for it, and even though UP might act like they're difficult to negotiate, they will take any offer to buy in and get passenger rail, supplemental trains, to Los Angeles.

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Fremont, California: from San Francisco, using the post quarter, and it's an underutilized quarter. It can be done for hundreds of millions of dollars, not billions and billions of dollars. Slower, but it'll get you there.

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Fremont, California: King City's already building a station, waiting for the, additional, rail down the coast corridor.

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Fremont, California: And in the meanwhile, I've been trying to get TAMC in Monterey County to think of a smart solution. They're too addicted to cutting-edge technology, very expensive light rail for a small regional corridor using electrical

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Fremont, California: units, or even, hydrogen fuel cell units, just go with smart technology, the DMU units, much… it's a budget solution, and I think they should work with Santa Cruz County, which is

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: To make public comment. And we will start with Eugene Bradley as the first commenter.

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Eugene Bradley: Thank you, Ms. Cummings. This is Eugene Bradley, Silicon Valley Transit Users. Can everybody hear me?

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Eugene Bradley: Thank you. Just a couple of questions that I'll be following up by email. I just want to go on the record.

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Eugene Bradley: I noticed that in the draft plan, it does not mention anything about the California State Rail Plan that's currently in existence. What would happen… what would need to happen for the state rail plan to be integrated into the final draft plan? Just to follow up on the… what the prior speaker had mentioned regarding

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Eugene Bradley: coast corridor for passenger rail more often. Also, people like me come from outside the Bay Area, like Monterey County, Stanislaus County.

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Eugene Bradley: Because the housing cost in the Bay Area is just too much. I've already been… mine, hundreds of others have been priced out.

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Eugene Bradley: The draft plan doesn't include any means for folks like me that have to commute into the Bay Area. We're forced to drive on 101, and we're…

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Eugene Bradley: To be included in the draft.

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Eugene Bradley: 20… draft plan barrier 2050. Working with TAMC of Monterey and Santa Cruz counties could be one example of that. I'll follow up with this in email. Thank you for your time.

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Tim Frank: Thank you very much. My name is Tim Frank, and I am representing the Construction Trades Workforce Initiative. I have two types of comments I want to make. First, I want to focus on the question of the economic mobility, which is promised in the document, which is something we actually are quite excited about.

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Tim Frank: But implementation approaches that would actually support that would include the three P's for workers. Now, these are in addition to the three P's for housing. For workers, the three P's are prevailing wage, paid healthcare, and participation in state-approved apprenticeship programs.

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Tim Frank: And these are really key to actually assuring that construction jobs are providing the economic mobility that's… that is their potential.

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Tim Frank: The second comment I wanted to make regards to the question of how the EIR is utilized, we've seen a discrepancy between the regional EIR, which we think does an excellent job of accounting for the benefits of concentrated development in priority development areas, and local implementation, where at the level of specific plans or individual

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Tim Frank: projects, you see EIRs looking… establishing a very different baseline that assumes that no development is actually the environmental superior approach, and that all development is increasing VMT. And we know that actually putting more density in those locations actually reduces regional VMT. And we think that there should be some offered coordination between the regional agency and local

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Tim Frank: Local entities doing the environmental review so that local environmental review can tear off the regional document and do a better job of accounting for the environmental benefits that come from more intensive transit-oriented development.

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Tim Frank: Thank you very much.

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Jordan Moldow: I'm a resident of the City of San Jose in Santa Clara County. A couple of comments on the draft plan.

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Jordan Moldow: To start with, there's a graphic on page 17, and repeated again on page 112.

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Jordan Moldow: That shows expected GHG reduction, and it says 41% reduction for cars and light-duty trucks, and a 40% reduction for all vehicles, including fuel efficiency gains.

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Jordan Moldow: I don't believe it's appropriate to include in the graphic the changes from fuel efficiency gains, and I say that for two reasons. One is it has nothing to do with anything that MTC has control over.

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Jordan Moldow: any fuel efficiency gains that may or may not happen are gonna happen regardless of whether this plan is adopted. So it doesn't make sense to make it seem like the plan, is responsible for those improvements.

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Jordan Moldow: should include any allocation of adding new highway lane miles. And it doesn't matter to me if it's, quote, targeted or not, it doesn't matter whether it's an express lane or not.

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Jordan Moldow: Adding new lane miles on highways is gonna drastically increase vehicle miles traveled.

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Jordan Moldow: in a way that will be extremely difficult, if not impossible, to fully mitigate. So, I don't believe that highway capacity expansion projects should be in this plan at all, and I believe they should all be removed. Thank you.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Next, we have… Tracy Kosulcharyan, in the queue. Tracy, I'm gonna unmute you, and you have 2 minutes.

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Tracy Kosolcharoen: Hi, thank you so much for giving us this opportunity to speak. I wanted to kind of zero in on the population forecasts.

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Tracy Kosolcharoen: I compared them to the State Department of Finance dashboard, which projects across the nine counties about a half million increase in population.

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Tracy Kosolcharoen: So I'm curious how it feels like the Plan Bay Area population growth forecast of 1 million households, and you know, you can assume that each household

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Tracy Kosolcharoen: the vast majority is going to have more than two people. You know, this forecast feels…

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Tracy Kosolcharoen: very far above what the actual 2050 population forecasts are. So for you to better focus your resources in the places that it matters, I would ask if you could consider, you know.

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Tracy Kosolcharoen: bringing the forecasts in line with what Department of Finance shows. Moreover, if you zoom into the population growth by county specifically, interestingly, 83% of the growth is actually expected to be not in Santa Clara, San Mateo, San Francisco counties, but actually

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Tracy Kosolcharoen: The highest growth forecasts are in Solano, Contra Costa, and Alameda counties, so why are so many of the plan development areas actually… they look like they're concentrated in, you know, the Santa Clara Peninsula, San Francisco area? You know, why wouldn't we

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Tracy Kosolcharoen: want to have more plant development areas to support the places that are actually adding people. So that… that would be my first piece of feedback. Secondly, it would be great to have more clarity around the

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Tracy Kosolcharoen: revenue forecast, it's adding up to, like, $1.2 trillion on page 65. Just curious how these numbers are gonna happen, which, again, you know, I think maybe, again, bringing the population forecast in line would actually help better meet any sort of fiscal goals that you have. Thank you very much.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Thank you for your public comment.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Next, we have Greg Dieguez in the queue. Greg, I'll unmute you, and you have 2 minutes.

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Gregg Dieguez: Thank you, yes, Greg Diegas, D-I-E-G… Z.

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Gregg Dieguez: Two minutes aren't enough to adequately describe how broad this plan is, so I'm just going to focus on two points.

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Gregg Dieguez: First, the plan is internally inconsistent. That projected population growth of 25% over 25 years

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Gregg Dieguez: When you evaluate the water supply in the plan, there's no funding to add supply.

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Gregg Dieguez: Because, supposedly, existing residents are going to be made to pay for more efficient water use approaches.

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Gregg Dieguez: I testified at the State Water Board two weeks ago because farmers and builders are pushing to further deplete the Tuolumne River of water required by the Bay Delta Plan.

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Gregg Dieguez: Yes, Virginia, there already is a water supply problem in Northern California, and new sources of water are going to cost 5, 7, and 10 times as much as current supplies, and 25% population growth would make unaffordability even worse for all residents.

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Gregg Dieguez: The plan does not reflect this additional cost of living burden, or address why current residents should subsidize the new joiners. And if water supply is a constraint, then the population growth cannot and should not occur.

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Gregg Dieguez: And secondly, the plan misrecepts, costs.

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Gregg Dieguez: It estimates $1.5 trillion in cost over 25 years, but the $500 billion estimated for transit is based on 2019 numbers.

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Gregg Dieguez: And California, construction costs have increased 55% since then due to supply chain issues, tariffs, and inflation.

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Gregg Dieguez: Even at the underestimate of $1.5 trillion, just the unfunded portion of Planned Bay Area will cost every single resident in the Bay Area

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Gregg Dieguez: $4,000 a year for 25 years, or $100,000.

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Gregg Dieguez: That's an underestimate for both the transit costs and the cost of living burdens associated with stressed water supplies.

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Gregg Dieguez: So, with more realistic, lower population growth, the cost per resident would be even higher.

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Gregg Dieguez: So the plan is not aligned properly with what is going to happen in the region, what should happen in the region, and how it's going to be funded. There are many more errors, omissions, and inconsistencies involved.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Mr. Diegoz, your time is up. Thank you for your public comment.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Next we have Bea. Coleman. You'll have 2 minutes to speak, and I'm gonna mute you now.

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Bee Coleman: Thank you, I just put my head down because I thought it was my turn. I'm Beag Coleman, I'm representing Richmond Land in West Contra Costa County, and just want to emphatically support many of the housing strategies, specifically and especially, encouraging ABAG and BAFA and whoever else is responsible for implementing to really stick to your guns around

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Bee Coleman: protections of tenants, tenant rights protections, as well as the reducing development costs. That's extremely important. I'm also noting that there are some ties to the economic strategy around implementing a statewide guaranteed income, that impact the outcomes of housing, and really a lot of these strategies

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Bee Coleman: and outcomes that are presented in the plan, and it's not clear to me, based on my read, and I could have missed it, how and who is responsible for implementing this specific economic strategy around the $205 billion that has been identified as a need in order to implement a statewide guaranteed income. And with this being a regional plan.

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Bee Coleman: It is a little confusing, and again, unclear how a statewide guaranteed income would be implemented, so I do encourage some clarity, and I wonder where and how that can be provided, because I, for sure, would encourage and support a guaranteed income, and something I think would absolutely support affordable housing.

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Bee Coleman: development and access across the state. And in terms of revenue generation, I also would love to encourage and, support the development of more strict and creative corporate tax reform, whether that is progressive taxes or wealth taxes, but we definitely need to tax the corporate.

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Bee Coleman: Thank you.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: We have one more Zoom attendee, who wishes to make public comment. Susan Kirsch, I'm gonna unmute you, and you'll have 2 minutes.

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Susan Kirsch: Okay, you can hear me now?

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Susan Kirsch: Thank you. Thank you for holding these hearings. I want to make two points here. First, I want to underscore agreement with the comments that Greg Diegas made, and the kind of flaws that he's pointed out that I really hope you'll pay attention to in terms of looking at this draft plan public hearing, or plan Bay Area.

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Susan Kirsch: The other thing is not specifically about the plan, but I want to use this opportunity to comment about the process. And I know you were claiming all of the ways in which you've had public comment and opportunities

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Susan Kirsch: for public comments, and you've got some really high numbers. But I'd like to point out, it looks like tonight's participation is relatively low.

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Susan Kirsch: And I think we can easily spot a good reason for that, and it's hard to imagine

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Susan Kirsch: why you as planners would choose to have these hearings happening in Fremont, of all places, or Nevada, of all places.

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Susan Kirsch: And it's inconsistent with those places where we're anticipating growth in the Bay Area, even though those numbers themselves seem to be

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Susan Kirsch: But we know that the impact of this kind of planning, the regional planning, impacts especially those places that are already heavily populated, the Santa Clara and San Mateo, and that you have no hearings going on in those locations seems like a kind of planning oversight that raises questions for me in terms of your planning acumen.

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Susan Kirsch: And I would add to that the idea that you have a meeting starting at 6 o'clock in communities that are already difficult to reach almost any kind of day, and that you have it in the hardest time for anybody to travel to get to a meeting.

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Susan Kirsch: So, those are my… both my process question and my support for Grove Diegus' comments. Thank you.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Thank you for your public comment.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: We don't have any other Zoom participants with hands raised, but before we

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: close, I'm going to turn it back to, Leslie, to let us know if there are any additional in-person participants who wish to make public comment.

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Fremont, California: There are no more comments here.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Okay, thank you, Marcella.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Okay, we don't have anyone else in the comment queue, both in person and online. As such, I now declare the public hearing of the draft Plan Bay Area 2050+, and its related supplemental reports officially closed.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Thank you all for your comments on the draft plan.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Next slide, please.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: We have several other ways to submit oral or written comments on the draft plan.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: You can submit written comments via email to info at planbayarea.org.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: You can use the comment form available on the 2050 Plus Draft Plan page on the Plan Bay Area website.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: You can fax them to 415-536-9800

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Or, you can mail them to MTC's Public Information Office.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Oral comments can be submitted by calling the Plan Bay Area Comment Line at area code 415-778

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: 2292, and leaving a recorded message.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Please note that oral comments on the draft EIR will not be accepted on the Plan Bay Area comment line.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Next slide.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: We are now going to transition to the draft EIR for Plan Bay Area 2050+.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: With that, I'm going to invite Adam back to give a brief overview of the draft EIR.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Adam, go ahead.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: Thank you, Veronica.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: Yeah, I'll begin with an overview of the draft EIR. We can go to the next slide. Thank you.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: The Draft Environmental Impact Report, or EIR, was prepared in compliance with the California Environmental Quality Act, better known as CEQA. It discloses the potential environmental effects of implementing Plan B Area 2050+.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: As required by CEQA, the EIR evaluates the effects of implementing the plan and shares those results with the public, interested agencies and organizations and decision makers.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: For any impacts identified as potentially significant, the EIR identifies feasible mitigation measures to reduce those impacts. The EIR also includes an alternatives analysis, which I'll describe in a later slide.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: This is a programmatic EIR, as defined in the CEQA guidelines, which means it looks at the plan at a broad, regional level, rather than at individual projects.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: As such, it assesses the potential impacts of the full set of projects, programs, and strategies in the plan.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: It does not analyze individual transportation, sea level rise adaptation, or land use projects in detail.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: Instead, it provides environmental analysis and mitigation intended to address the types or ranges of impacts that individual projects may later present.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: Local projects will still go through their own CEQA review when appropriate.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: Next slide.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: Chapter 3 of the draft EIR includes all of the technical topics and impact discussions. The draft EIR finds that implementing Plan Bay Area 2050 plus would result in potentially 37 potentially significant impacts.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: Mitigation measures are identified for all of these impacts.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: Of the 37 impacts, 23 could not be determined to be reduced to a less than significant level, even with mitigation, and are therefore identified as significant and unavoidable.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: And 14 impacts could be reduced to a less than significant level with implementation of the mitigation measures in the draft EIR.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: However, 35 of the impacts are ultimately treated as significant and unavoidable, because MTC and ABAG generally do not have authority to implement future projects.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: Such as specific transportation projects, sea level rise, adoption infrastructure, or individual land use projects.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: The impact discussions explain this under the heading, Significance After Mitigation.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: For future projects that qualify for CEQA streamlining under the plan, the responsible local agencies must consider and apply the IR's mitigation measures, and in some cases, this could reduce project-specific impacts to less than significant.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: That said, MTC and ABAG cannot require cities, counties, and transit agencies, or other local agencies to adopt those measures. For that reason, the EIR conservatively concludes that many impacts remain significant and unavoidable at the regional program level.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: The IR also looks at the environmental pros and cons of three different alternatives and compares each one to the proposed plan.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: or Premier 2050+.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: All three alternatives use the same regional growth forecast for future households, jobs, and transportation revenues. Because of this shared foundation, many of the impacts across alternatives are similar to those of the draft plan.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: Of the three alternatives, one is required by CEQA and is known as the No Project Alternative. It shows what could happen if the proposed plan is not adopted under this alternative.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: Growth follows existing local general plan zoning without an adopted regional transportation plan or sustainable community strategy.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: No new transportation or sea level rise projects move forward beyond those already under construction, or those that are fully funded and have environmental clearance.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: The other two alternatives… Both start with the draft plan as their foundation, and then… Specific invested.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: To test how different choices change outcomes.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: Thank you for… Letting me know.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: Alternative one, eliminates major highway expansion projects.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: Probably $6 billion of regional capacity improvements, like new…

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Adam, it looks like there are… Frequency…

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Adam, your… your, connection is… it's going in and out.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Just to let you know. So, would you mind turning off your video to preserve your bandwidth?

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: No, if there's additional challenges?

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Go ahead, turn your video off, that might help with the connection, the bandwidth.

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Staff: Adam Noelting, MTC-ABAG: Are you able to… are you able to hear me, Veronica?

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: I can hear you a little bit better. Yes, the video's still frozen.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Go ahead, try speaking.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Let's see, I'll go ahead and, let me go ahead and, continue where Adam left off. So Adam was speaking about Alternative 1,

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Alternative 1 eliminates major highway expansion projects, roughly $6 billion in regional roadway capacity improvements, like new lanes or large arterial expansions. It redirects that

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Highway funding to transit, boosting frequency and capacity on bus and rail routes with moderate to high ridership. And it also shifts the region toward a transit-first mobility strategy, reducing reliance on driving and strengthening regional transit service.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Alternative 2 refocuses housing and economic strategies within transit-oriented communities, which are areas generally within about a half mile of major transit.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: It increases development capacity in these locations to encourage more homes and jobs near transit.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: It also targets housing preservation and affordability requirements, specifically within TOCs, again, transit-oriented communities, instead of applying them across all growth geographies.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Adam, were you able to rejoin?

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: With regard to the, household growth, next we'll compare how much household growth occurs in growth geographies under the draft plan and the three alternatives.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: The big picture takeaway is that most new homes are steered toward places with good access to jobs, services, and transit, but the degree of concentration varies by alternative.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: With the draft plan, under the draft plan, a large share of future households, including a substantial majority in priority development areas and transit-rich areas.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Located in places already planned for housing and close to transit. This reflects the plan's emphasis on climate-friendly, transit-oriented growth.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: The no-project alternative shows less growth in the areas the region has prioritized, such as PDAs and transit-rich neighborhoods.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Growth is more dispersed because cities would rely solely on their existing local plans without regional coordination.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Alternative 1 uses the same land pattern… I'm sorry, land use pattern as the draft plan, and because this alternative changes transportation investments, not where housing and jobs go, the distribution of new homes is the same as in the draft plan.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Alternative 2 results in even more homes in transit-oriented locations, especially within transit-oriented communities.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: It results in higher shares of growth in transit-rich and TOC areas, reflecting a more concentrated pattern tied directly to major transit corridors.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: What this means overall is these comparisons show how different policy choices influence where new housing is built, and that distribution in turn affects performance outcomes and environmental impacts.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Next slide.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Let's see… I can't tell… Adam, were you able to rejoin?

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Okay. With regard to the equity and performance outcomes, we'll compare how the draft plan and each alternative perform on key climate, affordability, housing, and access to job outcomes.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: For greenhouse gas emissions, the draft plan and both alternatives meet the state's climate target by reducing emissions over time.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: The no-project alternative does not meet the target, with emissions increasing instead of declining.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: With regard to housing and transportation affordability, the draft plan keeps combined housing and transportation costs much more manageable for low-income residents.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: The no-project alternative is notably more expensive for these households.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: And both alternatives perform about as well as the draft plan, with slightly better affordability in some cases.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: For affordable housing production, the draft plan and both alternatives produce substantially more deed-restricted affordable homes than the no-project alternative.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: And the no-project alternative delivers far fewer affordable units, worsening existing affordability challenges.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: For access to jobs by transit for equity priority communities, the draft plan provides strong transit access to jobs for residents in equity priority communities.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Both alternatives perform similarly or slightly better than the draft plan on this measure, and the no project alternative falls well behind, with far fewer jobs reachable by transit.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: The overall takeaway is the draft plan and both alternatives meaningfully advance equity, climate, and mobility outcomes for the region.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: The No Project Alternative consistently performs the worst across

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: All the categories, and this underscores the importance of adopting a regional plan rather than taking no coordinated action.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Next slide, please.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Alright, what did we learn?

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Even though many of the results look similar, the analysis still reveals meaningful differences in how the region could achieve its outcomes.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Importantly, the analysis shows that the draft plan consistently moves the region closer to its long-term goals around climate, equity, housing, and mobility.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: The alternatives analysis helps us understand the trade-offs between different approaches.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Including which strategies reduce environmental impacts the most, with Alternative 2 performing best by focusing growth in transit-oriented communities.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: reduce future driving the most, with Alternative 1 performing best by shifting investment from highway expansion to transit service, and highlight the risks of taking no regional action.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: With the no-project alternative falling far short of the climate goals and providing fewer affordable housing opportunities and limited access to jobs.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Overall, this analysis helps decision makers and the public understand the benefits and trade-offs of different paths, and it reinforces that the proposed draft plan offers an environmentally beneficial, equitable, and realistic path forward for the Bay Area.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Next slide.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: For next steps, following the end of the comment period, a final EIR will be produced, and comment letters and public comment transcripts are included in the final EIR,

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Along with responses to comments that address the environmental analysis in the draft EIR.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: The final EIR will also include revisions to the text of the draft EIR made in response to comments and at the direction of staff.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Together, the draft and final EIR is forwarded

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: to the MTC and ABAC decision makers for their consideration regarding certification that the EIR is adequate under CEQA,

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: An adoption of findings of fact, and a statement of overriding considerations, and then consideration for approval of the plan.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: With that, we are now going to open it up to clarifying questions that attendees may have.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Please remember, thank you, please remember that detailed or substantial questions need to be submitted via email so that our planners can provide a response.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Also, just a reminder that we want to be sure that your comments are captured in the official record, so please make sure to make your comments during the public hearing, and not right now during the Q&A portion.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: For online participants, if you have a question, please enter it into the Q&A box. And we will start with questions at the Fremont location, and then move on to questions submitted in the Q&A box. I'm going to hand it to Leslie to start us off. Leslie, please go ahead.

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Fremont, California: Thank you, Veronica. We don't have any questions at the Fremont location.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Okay, thank you.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Now we will then, go back to the Zoom room, if any attendees have submitted clarifying questions.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Again, if you have a question about the presentation… I'm sorry, if you have a clarifying question, then please enter it into the Q&A box.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Okay.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: I don't see any questions in the Q&A box for Zoom.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: So with that… With that…

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: With that, we are going to transit… I'm sorry, transition… look, I'm a transit person. We're going to transition now to the public hearing on the draft environmental impact report for Plan Bay Area 2050+.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Next slide, please.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Okay, so we're now going to get started with our draft EIR public hearing. On October 20th, 2025, MTC ABAC staff released the draft plan and draft EIR for public review and comment.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: As part of the release of the draft plan, Senate Bill 375 requires that MTC and ABBA conduct three public hearings to receive comments on the draft plan.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Today is the second of those hearings, with each draft plan hearing followed by a public hearing on the draft EIR.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: One additional hybrid public hearing is scheduled for tomorrow, December 4th, 2025. The details for participating in the upcoming hearing are posted on the Plan Bay Area website at planbayarea.org forward slash draft plan.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: The public comment period will close promptly at 5pm on Thursday, December 18, 2025.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: In addition to the public hearings, there are various other ways to submit written comments on the draft EIR.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Complete details on the various ways to submit comments are available on the draft PlanBayarea.org website, and will be shared by staff after the public hearing.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Upon the close of the comment period on December 18th, 2025,

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Staff will prepare responses to all draft EIR comments received that will be included as part of the final EIR for Plan Bay Area 2050+.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Staff will also share comments received with the Commission and ABAC Executive Board to inform their decision-making prior to considering certifying the draft EIR for Plan Bay Area 2050+.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: The Commission and ABAG Executive Board will consider certifying the draft EIR in early 2026.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Now let's get started. As a reminder, to ensure we capture all your comments correctly, our court reporter, Rosaline O'Brien, will be transcribing your comments as you make them.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: And so that Rosline can record your comment correctly, please begin by stating and spelling your name for the record, or state that you want your comments to be anonymous.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: If you're representing an agency or organization, and want that included in the record, please also state your organization's name.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: And when making your comment, please be sure to speak clearly and into your microphone so that Rosline can hear and record everything you say accurately.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: If Rosline cannot hear or understand you, you may be interrupted and asked to slow down or speak up.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Every speaker will have 2 minutes to provide their comment, and if you have more substantial comments, we encourage you to either mail or email them to us. Once we receive everyone's oral testimony on the draft EIR, we'll close the hearing.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Please be sure to keep your comments focused on the draft EIR.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: If you wish to testify and are participating in person at the Fremont location, please submit a speaker card, and Leslie will call on you to speak.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Once all in-person speakers have provided public comment, I will call on Zoom participants.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: to provide comments.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Zoom participants, use the raise hand button, or dial star 9 to be put in the queue to make your comment, and I will call on you.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Please be sure to speak clearly into your microphone so that our court reporter can capture your comment accurately.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: And… and again, as a reminder, please, by stating and spelling your name for the record, or state that you want your comment to be anonymous.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: And if you're representing an agency or organization and want that included in the record, please also state your organization's name.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Let's begin oral testimony, and we will start at the Fremont location. Leslie, please go ahead.

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Fremont, California: There are no comments here at the Fremont location.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Okay, thank you, Marzela.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: All right, we're going ahead then and turn it to our Zoom participants who, might have public comment.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: If you wish to make public comment, again, please raise your hand or dial star 9.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: To be added to the queue. And as of now, I do not see any hands raised,

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Okay, we have one, hand raised. Susan Kirsch, I'm going to, unmute you, and you'll have 2 minutes. Go ahead, Susan.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Susan, if you're, let's see…

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Susan Kirsch: Here we go.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Okay.

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Susan Kirsch: I got it.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: There we go.

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Susan Kirsch: Thank you. Susan Kirsch, S-U-S-A-N-K-I-R-S-C-H, and I'm Founder-director of Catalyst for Local Control.

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Susan Kirsch: And the first point I'd like to make is regarding the fact that when you were describing the alternatives that you selected, you made the statement that each of the alternatives shared the same growth projections.

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Susan Kirsch: And I'd like to raise this as a significant issue

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Susan Kirsch: Because it links to what was… is displayed in Table 2-14 of the EIR, which shows that MTC is using a calculation of a growth rate of 24% for the state over this time period.

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Susan Kirsch: Which is in significant contrast.

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Susan Kirsch: to what the Department of Finance is projecting as a growth rate at 6.4%.

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Susan Kirsch: So, considering that there's already this kind of discrepancy, which ought to be cleared up during this process of review of the EIR,

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Susan Kirsch: There's also this issue that California, what we've lost congressional seats, we have people moving out of the state. We don't have a balance between births and deaths, and we have immigration issues.

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Susan Kirsch: So that this… that the alternatives didn't take that into account, and that there is such a discrepancy

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Susan Kirsch: between MTC's kind of wishful thinking, and I'd like to link that to one other point in the EIR, and that is in Table 1.1,

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Susan Kirsch: There is the disclosure that an out-of-court settlement in 2013 with the Building Industry Association gives the building industry the authority to assess and establish a regional growth total number.

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Susan Kirsch: And that power and authority ought to also be looked into as this EIR moves forward.

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Susan Kirsch: Thank you.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Thank you for your public comment.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: I do not see additional participants in Zoom with raised hands. Before we close it, I'm going to turn it back to the Fremont location for a final call if there are any in-person participants who wish to make public comment.

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Fremont, California: Thank you, Veronica. We do not have anybody in the Fremont location wishing to speak.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Thank you, Leslie.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: We also do not have any…

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Zoom participants, who wish to speak, and as such, I will now declare the public hearing on the draft environmental impact report for Plan Bay Area 2050 Plus officially closed.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Thank you for your comments.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: We do have several other ways to submit written comments on the draft EIR. You can submit written comments via email.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: to EIR comments, at… Bayarealmetro.gov.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: I'm sorry, let me… let me actually make sure that…

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Yes, eARComments at bayareametro.gov. You can use the comment form available on the draft environmental impact report page on the Plan Bay Area website. You can also fax them to 415

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: 536-9800, or you can mail them to MTC's Public Information Office. Next slide.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Thank you all for participating in tonight's public hearings. We appreciate you taking time out of your busy evening schedules to provide comments on these important documents. Don't forget that you can send questions anytime

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: to info at planbayarea.org. Comments on the draft plan can be sent to the same email address, and comments on the draft EIR should be sent to EIRComments at bayareametro.gov.

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Staff: Veronica Cummings, MTC-ABAG: Thank you again for being here, and we hope you have a wonderful evening.