Draft MTP/SCS Comments Received - sacog

SCS Health & Equity Metrics August 2011
subsidies for low‐income residents and youth.
24.5 When mitigating transportation impacts, include Health & Equity Metric #12 19 :
assessing need for EIA/HIA when housing is near 1,000 feet of a busy roadway and
requiring best practice mitigation requirements when the assessment determines that
air quality is a risk to health. Ideally, an equity analysis would be done, including
estimating the proportion of affordable housing units vs. market rate units within 1,000
foot buffer of busy roadways (over 100,000 AADT).
25.1 When improving regional freight forecasting tools, including health impacts from diesel
and other air emissions, injuries/fatalities from collisions, and health outcomes due to
noise.
25.2 Include members of the public and also public health advocacy and agencies on the
goods movement advisory group.
25.3 Include health outcomes impacts of logistics industry (not just measures of noise
changes, air emissions changes, and safety).
25.4
&
26.1
When identifying new preferred truck access routes, conduct a health and equity
analysis.
Strengths
System Expansion
# Comment
Health evidence supports expansion of transit over road expansion, and supporting
expansion that supports infill development, limits to increase of the urban footprint,
and circulation patterns that will encourage active transport.
28.12 Encouraging supportive features that will help encourage people to take public transit.
29.2 ‐
29.4
Investing in bike/ped networks in the order identified, sharing information in order to
increase connectivity, and funding complete streets.
Complementary strategies
# Comment
27.3 Ensure that new intercity rail services do not encourage sprawl.
28.3 We commend SACOG for considering the full life‐cycle costs of transit options; does
SACOG also do this for roadway projects? When considering the costs, is this a place to
also consider the Housing + Transportation costs for the consumer?
28.4
&
When deciding on where to develop transit corridors between communities and local
transit and how/where to design commute transit, include a mapping and quantitative
19 HIP, ibid. Elevating Health & Equity into the Sustainable Communities Strategy (SCS) Process: SCS Health &
Equity Performance Metrics.
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