ABAG by the Friday, July 9 deadline received appeals from 28 local governments challenging their draft RHNA allocations, which were announced in May. The submitted appeals include ten from communities in Marin County; six from Santa Clara County communities; six from Contra Costa County communities...
The latest edition of OpenRoad with Doug McConnell will celebrate the successful growth of the San Francisco Bay Trail. OpenRoad airs this Sunday at 6:30 p.m. on NBC Bay Area.
The Bay Area Regional Energy Network (BayREN) is putting a focus on energy efficient homes and buildings as a way to keep people well.
On May 20, 2021, the ABAG Executive Board approved the Final Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) Methodology and Draft Allocations. Approval of the Final RHNA Methodology followed the finding in April 2021 by the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) that the Draft...
The San Francisco Estuary Partnership is updating its Estuary Blueprint, which lays out priority actions needed for a healthy, resilient San Francisco Estuary by 2050. The partnership is seeking input to guide the update and has posted an online survey.
The Estuary Blueprint, originally called the...
The San Francisco Bay Trail / Napa Valley Vine Trail project in Vallejo received a $410,000 grant to build a two-way, separated bike path along Enterprise Street. The new bike path will be about one-third of a mile.
The funding, provided last month via the State of California Natural Resources...
In May, staff will ask the Regional Planning Committee to recommend that the Executive Board approve the Final RHNA Methodology and the Draft RHNA Allocations. Recently, HCD confirmed that the ABAG Draft Methodology furthers the RHNA objectives.
As a result of this finding, ABAG can now approve the...
The Draft Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) Methodology and Final RHNA Subregional Shares were approved by the ABAG Executive Board on January 21, 2021, meeting a major milestone in the multi-year RHNA process.
ABAG’s Draft RHNA Methodology is similar to the Proposed RHNA Methodology releas...
The ABAG Regional Housing Technical Assistance Program is launching a 10-part training series for local planning and housing staff focused on Housing Element updates. Sessions will be held the second and fourth Tuesday of each month from 9-11 a.m., beginning on Tuesday, February 23 and running...
In 2020, staff from the Association of Bay Area Governments and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission held 35 public events about Plan Bay Area 2050, in order to exchange ideas with residents and staff from partner organizations. Over 180,000 comments were received from over 15,000 people on...
