Draft MTP/SCS Comments Received - sacog

from SHA to SACOG re MTP/SCS 2035
Letter
9, 2012
January
help MTP/SCS updates and local discussions on development patterns, including transportation
to
measures and opportunities related to accessibility, equity, public health, a• youth,
performance
Strategy: During the design phase, review transportation projects to assess whether they foster
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choices, improve local community circulation and provide access to areas of hiqh
transportation
or divide and further seqreqate communities, and either avoid or mitigate negative impacts
opportunity
those to public health;safety; air quality; housinq quality, affordability and stability; and the
(including
Strategy: Encourage adequate supply of housing at a variety of price ranges in the region, to meet
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demand and prevent the export of housing to adjacent regions and the exacerbation of
local
Strategy: Provide support for jurisdictions to overcome common issues identified in local analyses of
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to fair housing, such as racial and ethnic seqreqation, and a regional analysis funded by
impediments
Strategy: Help air districts and local agencies study localized air pollution impacts on health and the
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particularly in EJ areas and areas of hiqh poverty and/or racial/ethnic concentration,
environment,
air toxins, by providing analysis and information from SACOG's planning work. Support public
including
efforts to raise awareness of these connections.
information
Strategy: Examine, analyze and steer funds and resources toward addressinq commute pattern
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needs of those in job placement programs such as CaI-WORKS, those working nontraditional
travel
shifts, and those with reverse commutes as-a-guide-• for transit and supplemental travel
employment
imp'rovements.
service
Strategy: Ensure through examination, context sensitive design, and avoidance or mitigation of
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system impacts wherever feasible, particularly displacement of residents, localized air
transportation
ATTACHMENT TO SACRAMENTO HOUSING ALLIANCE'S COMMENT LEI-rER ON DRAFT MTP/SCS 2035
2.5 Strategy: Continue to develop and apply social equity analysis methods and performance measures
racial/ethnic inteqration and de-concentration of poverty.
environment).
racial/ethnic seqreqation and poverty concentration.
federal grant funding from HUD.
quality and noise impacts, when building improvements in
low-income and minority communities
adjacent to freeways, major roadways, and railroad corridors.
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