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Technical Assistance

From the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) and Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC)

Bay Area city, town and county staff will find ABAG and MTC technical assistance resources for energy, housing, land use, resilience, transportation and infrastructure projects and programs. Webinars, grants, toolkits, white-papers, case studies and more are provided to help with planning or implementation of policies and projects in their jurisdictions.

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Energy (18)
- Building Retrofit (5)
- Electrification (9)
- Energy Efficiency (7)
- Water Efficiency (1)
Housing (221)
- Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (30)
  - Federal Policy / Guidance (2)
  - Other Resources (1)
  - Regional Resources / Guidance (13)
  - State Policy / Guidance (15)
- Creating Housing Choices (37)
  - ADUs & JADUs (6)
  - CoHousing & Other Alternative Housing Models (4)
  - Emergency Shelters & Transitional Housing (3)
  - Farmworker Housing (3)
  - Micro Units (2)
  - Missing Middle Housing (14)
  - Mixed Use Development (1)
  - Mobile Homes & Manufactured Housing (3)
- Housing & Sustainability (29)
  - Emerging Building Tech (3)
  - Integrating Resilience Into a Housing Element (5)
  - Integrating Safety, Environmental Justice & LHMPs (11)
  - Mapping Hazards & Climate Impacts (6)
  - Resilience Planning Frameworks (11)
- Housing Elements (103)
  - Annual Progress Reports (8)
  - Constraints Analyses (13)
  - General (33)
  - Goals, Policies & Programs (1)
  - Needs Analyses (3)
  - RHNA (34)
  - SB 9 (Ministerial Urban Lot Splits & Two-Unit Developments) (11)
  - Site Inventories & Strategies (14)
- Pro-Housing Policies & Practices (29)
  - By Right Zoning & Streamlined Review (7)
  - Density Bonuses & Incentives (3)
  - Form Based Codes (4)
  - Inclusionary Zoning (4)
  - Objective Guidelines & Standards (3)
  - Parking Standards (8)
- Public Engagement (32)
  - Online Engagement Tools (11)
  - Process Design & Management (6)
  - Telling the Story (7)
- REAP Program (45)
  - Grants (7)
  - Related Plans (3)
  - RHNA (8)
  - Technical Assistance (65)
Land Use (78)
- Climate Change (20)
- Codes & Standards (6)
- Environmental Review (18)
- Open Space (3)
- Parking (18)
- Public Engagement (3)
- Zoning (40)
Resilience (33)
- Climate Change (34)
- Earthquake (6)
- Environmental Justice (9)
- Flood (7)
- Multi-Hazard (7)
- Sea Level Rise (12)
- Wildfire (6)
Transportation & Infrastructure (84)
- Asset Management (3)
- Bikeshare (8)
- Biking (23)
- Equity (13)
- Financing (6)
- Local Streets & Roads (14)
- Micromobility (9)
- Parking (13)
- Pavement (3)
- Project Delivery (18)
- Transit (17)
- Walking (21)

Program

Active Transportation (1)

Adapting to Rising Tides (ART) (9)

Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) (1)

Bay Area Regional Collaborative (1)

Bay Area Regional Energy Network (BayREN) (5)

Bay Area Spatial Information System (BASIS) (1)

Clean Building Compass (1)

Complete Streets (11)

Housing Technical Assistance (210)

Innovative Deployments to Enhance Arterials (IDEA) (2)

Mobility Hubs (4)

Parking (11)

Pavement Management Program (1)

Pavement Technical Assistance Program (P-TAP) (2)

Planning Innovations (11)

Priority Development Area (PDA) Planning Technical, Staffing and Planning Assistance (22)

Program for Arterial System Synchronization (PASS) (1)

Resilience (12)

SB 743 (LOS to VMT Transition) (22)

Soft Story Retrofit Program and Model Ordinance (1)

StreetSaver (3)

Technology Transfer Program (1)

Transportation Electrification (1)

Vision Zero - Local Road Safety Plans (6)

Vital Signs (2)

Resource Type

Call for Projects / Letters of Interest / Grant / Funding Opportunities (11)

Case Study (30)

Certification (1)

Codes & Standards (10)

Data Set (15)

FAQs / Fact Sheets (16)

Government Assistance / Grant (3)

Guidance / Tool / Toolkit (127)

Interactive or Online Tool / App (20)

Knowledge Sharing (10)

Mailing List (1)

Maps / Geospatial Data (11)

Model Ordinance (9)

Plan (26)

Presentation / Training / Event / Webinar (95)

Procurement / Request for Proposals (6)

Program Overview (17)

Reports (48)

Staffing Assistance Program (10)

Template (18)

Video / Media (20)

Website (13)

Work Groups (15)

22 Results

SB 743 (LOS to VMT Transition)

To reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Senate Bill No. 743 requires jurisdictions to adopt Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) rather than congestion levels or Level of Service (LOS) as a primary metric under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). Tools and resources from the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, Association of Bay Area Governments and individual Bay Area cities are resources to assist jurisdictions as they transition from LOS to VMT and update policy documents including the Housing Element of the General Plan.

Technical Assistance

From the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) and Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC)

Energy (18)

Housing (221)

Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (30)

Creating Housing Choices (37)

Housing & Sustainability (29)

Housing Elements (103)

Pro-Housing Policies & Practices (29)

Public Engagement (32)

REAP Program (45)

Land Use (78)

Resilience (33)

Transportation & Infrastructure (84)

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