The Protect and Restore America’s Estuaries Act, a bill reauthorizing and expanding the National Estuary Program (NEP) was signed into law this week. The bill, which passed Congress with bipartisan support, reauthorizes the National Estuary Program through 2026.
The NEP provides grants to 28 states...
Jurisdictions interested in ABAG’s Technical Assistance and Planning Grants should take note of the upcoming February 12, 2021 deadline to submit Letters of Interest to support local Housing Elements and Priority Development Areas (PDAs).
The solicitation combines the Regional Early Action Planning...
ABAG and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) offer a convenient Daily News Headlines subscription, delivering a curated list of stories about housing, transportation, development, the environment and more directly to your email inbox. The headlines are sent each weekday, arriving just...
The Bay Area Regional Energy Network (BayREN) is looking at milestones achieved during 2020.
During 2020, BayREN shifted to virtual trainings and workshops, and was able to provide more educational resources than ever before. In partnership with the California Center for Sustainable Communities...
ABAG and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) invite members of the public to take part in a survey about the Implementation Plan phase of Plan Bay Area 2050. The 13-question survey will be open through February 1, 2021, and is available in English, Spanish and Chinese.
The survey asks...
Welcome to the Plan Bay Area 2050 newsletter!
Here’s what is coming up this month...
We would like to wish everyone across the Bay Area a Happy New Year. The work of MTC and ABAG continues in accordance with federal and state regulations and this newsletter...
The San Francisco Estuary Partnership is taking stock of milestones achieved during 2020.
Despite the challenges imposed by the pandemic, partnerships throughout the region brought results that serve to enhance the San Francisco Bay Estuary.
Among the projects: The San Pablo Avenue Green...
ABAG and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) are pleased to announce the release of the Plan Bay Area 2050 Final Blueprint Outcomes—a major milestone in the development of Plan Bay Area 2050, the Bay Area’s long-range plan to guide the growth of our nine-county region for the next...
Today’s release of the Draft Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) Methodology is a major and important milestone in the RHNA process. The Draft RHNA Methodology and Final RHNA Subregional Shares release is the next step in the process.
The Draft RHNA Methodology determines the total number of...
To assist local jurisdictions in adopting Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) policies, the ABAG-MTC Regional Planning Program (RPP) hosted more than 100 local jurisdiction housing, planning and transportation staff in a two hour “VMT Policies and Housing Element Site Feasibility” webinar. 70% of the...
