ABAG Executive Board, MTC Approve Plan Bay Area 2050+ Final Blueprint

Plan Bay Area 2050+

The Association of Bay Area Governments and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) this month approved further study of the Final Blueprint for Plan Bay Area 2050+(link is external, opens in a new window).

At the MTC Wednesday meeting(link is external, opens in a new window) and the ABAG Executive Board’s Jan. 16 meeting(link is external, opens in a new window), staff presented the long-range plan’s growth geographies(link is external, opens in a new window) and strategies(link is external, opens in a new window), as well as the final transportation (link is external, opens in a new window)and resilience project lists(link is external, opens in a new window) recommended for modeling and analysis over the coming months. This follows a December 2024 presentation to the MTC Planning and ABAG Administrative Committee(link is external, opens in a new window) in which staff provided a more detailed overview of proposed transportation strategies and projects, weaving in recommendations from the Final Transit 2050+(link is external, opens in a new window) Network development process.

Staff expect to release the Draft Plan Bay Area 2050+, Draft Environmental Impact Report and Draft Implementation Plan for additional public feedback and engagement this summer, with formal adoption by MTC and the ABAG Executive Board of the final Plan Bay Area 2050+ in early 2026.

MTC and ABAG last month released the final update to the Equity Priority Communities(link is external, opens in a new window) (EPCs) geographies, EPCs are used to identify funding and public engagement priorities. The final Plan Bay Area 2050+ Equity Priority Communities Map(link is external, opens in a new window) ensures that no EPC tracts previously identified as part of Plan Bay Area 2050 will lose EPC status in Plan Bay Area 2050+.