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A recent article in the San Francisco Estuary Program's newsletter Estuary News highlights the Priority Conservation Areas grant opportunities. New mapping tools assisted 36 applicants to submit letters of interest requesting more than $19 million for projects to restore marshes, extend the Bay and...

350 miles of walking and cycling paths encircle the San Francisco Bay Area, connecting communities and providing a great alternative commute corridor. These paths are known as the Bay Trail and this year we celebrate the Trail's 30th Anniversary!

2019 marks the 30th Anniversary of the San...

This film is part of Metro Talks, a speaker series hosted by the Bay Area's four regional agencies at the Bay Area Metro Center. The series brings together prominent leaders and experts to discuss issues of regional significance like housing, community development, climate change, the economy...

Join in to show your support of estuaries, like our San Francisco Bay-Delta with the joint, 3-day "I heart estuaries" social media campaign. Add #iheartestuaries on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Spread the love and tweet away on February 12th, 13th and 14th!

This effort is put on to demonstrate...

Two PCA Grant workshops will assist Bay Area cities, counties, and parks and open space districts in Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties to compete for a new round of Priority Conservation Area (PCA) grants ranging from $100,000 to $1 million or more.

The...

An energy savings program administered by ABAG has won a prestigious national award for its work.

The BayREN Bay Area Multifamily Building Enhancements program — known as BAMBE — focuses on energy efficiency retrofits and offers no-cost consulting and cash rebates for multifamily properties with...

Cities, towns, and counties are invited to apply for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Coastal Resilience Grants to fund climate resilience projects in their jurisdictions. Funded projects should advance healthy and sustainable coastal ecosystems through habitat...

In a 21-to-9 vote, the ABAG Executive Board last night authorized ABAG President Rabbitt to sign the CASA Compact. The Compact is a set of policy recommendations to both state and local officials designed to help solve the Bay Area's longstanding housing-affordability problem by encouraging the...

Staff briefed the Executive Board on the CASA effort and areas of agreement for the CASA Compact and asked for the Board's input and discussion. By the end of 2018, CASA will have engaged a broad range of stakeholders to develop a suite of recommendations for legislative reform, new revenue, and...

Taking a bold step to ease the Bay Area's persistent shortage of affordable housing, MTC last week established a $76 million grant program known as the Housing Incentive Pool, or HIP for short, to reward with transportation infrastructure dollars the cities and counties that over the next five years...