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December 23, 2011 Board of Directors Sacramento Area Council of Governments 1415 L Street Suite 300 Sacramento, CA 95814 Re: Metropolitan Transportation Plan/Sustainable Communities Strategy 2035 Dear SACOG Board of Directors: We are pleased to offer our comments on the Draft Metropolitan Transportation Plan/Sustainable Communities Strategy 2035, and thank you for the opportunity to continue our involvement in planning for transportation and land use needs in the Sacramento region. The MTP/SCS moves the region in the right direction by focusing on meeting the needs of our growing population through compact growth, with a variety of transportation mode options, and with the needs of all communities in mind. To ensure that all residents in the region have the opportunity to thrive, the transportation network must be planned for all users. It must include reliable, affordable access to multiple modes, including transit, walking, and bicycling. It must serve all of our neighborhoods, linking jobs, housing options at all income levels, services, educational institutions and opportunities for recreation. The Coalition on Regional Equity (CORE) advocates for regional development that is equitable, sustainable and promotes public health for lower income people and communities of color in the greater Sacramento Region. The Coalition includes affordable housing advocates and developers, environmentalists, transportation advocates, homeless and anti-poverty advocates, social service providers, civil rights leaders and health groups. We have a vision for the Sacramento region that includes opportunities for all residents to live in communities rich with jobs, connected by transit as well as bicycle and pedestrian networks, accessible to services and recreation, and without threat that public investment will drive housing costs up and displace residents from their homes. The Draft MTP/SCS makes strides toward achieving this vision of a sustainable, equitable region. However, we respectfully recommend that SACOG strengthen and enhance the equity provisions of the MTP/SCS that address the transportation and planning needs of low-income communities, communities of color, other vulnerable populations, as well as preserve our natural habitat. We believe SACOG should do so for two reasons: first, it will bring the nd federal legal and regulatory Page 14 of 165
Coalition on Regional Equity MTP/SCS Comment Letter, Page 2 obligations; second, more equitable transportation and land use planning will facilitate more robust and sustainable economic growth in the region. 1 recommendations to achieve this are as follows: 1. Promote Affordable Housing in All Communities Promote affordable housing in all parts of the region. To this end, add a Strategy to Policy 4 to prevent gentrification and displacement of existing residents from transit- support and incentivize best practices to prevent gentrification resulting in displacement of existing resident, including practices that stabilize existing renters and lower and moderate income homeowners; create new homeownership opportunities for low to moderate income households; facilitate comprehensive community benefits packages that include good jobs and land use provisions; facilitate income and asset creation in affected areas; and support neighborhood-specific measures to fund the 2 2. Create a Jobs-Housing Fit Analysis Tool The importance of this tool, as specified in Strategy 4.3, cannot be over-emphasized. Use this new modeling tool to help create opportunities for people at all income levels to live where they work. 3. Meet the Needs of Transit Dependent Populations Add a Strategy (or multiple Strategies) to Policy 23 that specifically addresses the needs of the following transit-dependent populations: low-income people and youth under age 18. The Strategy should include improving transit services and options for lowincome people and youth by employing the same mechanisms set forth in Strategy 23.1. o We suggest adding the following language discounted monthly passes, and plan bus and other transit routes compatible o Specifically to address the needs of youth under 18, we suggest the following transit providers to ensure that district and or public bus routes enable all K-12 low income and minority communities whose needs and concerns otherwise might be 1 Notable references on the linkages between equity and economic prosperity include Just Growth: Inclusion and by Chris Benner and Manuel Pastor, and is the Superior Growth Model by PolicyLink. 2 We refer SACOG to the tool for measurement and interventio Community Innovation described in Mapping Susceptibility to Gentrification, available here: http://communityinnovation.berkeley.edu/publications.html for further development of this strategy. 2 Page 15 of 165
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