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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded an almost $1.5 million grant to the San Francisco Estuary Partnership for its Transforming Shorelines project.

The Transforming Shorelines project works with wastewater treatment facilities to take a nature-based approach to improving water...

This fall, ABAG and MTC are starting Plan Bay Area 2050, the next-generation regional plan. Work with local jurisdictions is advancing, exploring new PDAs, PCAs and PPAs. We want to make sure that we are using the best available baseline data from local governments before we create the land use...

Climate change. Sea-level rise. Resilience.

The terms are ubiquitous in the public realm, planning circles and among policymakers around the Bay Area. The topics are among the most vexing of our time.

Now there are new resources available from two of the state’s leading environmental justice and...

In advance of the fall 2019 launch of Plan Bay Area 2050 — the region’s next-generation long-range plan — you are invited to webinars on three distinct topics:

• Regional Growth Framework Update: Designed for local jurisdiction staff, this suite of webinars will highlight how to submit new growth...

Beginning the conversation about governance.

The Joint ABAG-MTC Governance Committee Meeting on Wednesday, July 24^th, began a series of conversations between representatives of the ABAG Executive Board and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC). Convened at the direction of a 2017...

The Protect and Restore America’s Estuaries Act, a bipartisan bill which would reauthorize the National Estuary Program (NEP), was introduced last week by U.S. Representative Tom Malinowski (D-NJ).

The NEP, a place-based program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, supports a network of...

ABAG invites stakeholders representing diverse perspectives in the Bay Area to serve on its Housing Methodology Committee (HMC) for the Regional Housing Need Allocation (RHNA). RHNA is the state-mandated process to identify the number of housing units that each local government must accommodate in...

ABAG will be holding a public hearing on the methodology used to determine the Regional Housing Control Total and the forecasted development pattern for Plan Bay Area 2050. Comments from the public must be received by 5 p.m. on Monday, August 19, 2019. 

San Francisco Bay Trail is celebrating its 30th year! Interested in the Bay Trail’s history? Do you want to know about the segments of trail under construction? Want to get involved? Read the special issue.

ABAG and MTC have opened a call for Letters of Interest for new or modified Priority Development Areas and Priority Conservation Areas, as well as a new pilot for Priority Production Areas.