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State law requires that every metro area have one–but try pleasing everybody<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Drawing of a proposed string of high-density, bike- friendly, mass transit-oriented developments along a stretch of El Camino Real between Daly City and San Jose.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A sweeping \u201cgreen\u201d vision for the future of transit and housing in the Bay Area inched a step closer to realization in Oakland last night.<\/p>\n

Officials from the Association of Bay Area Governments and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission voted on portions of Plan Bay Area, <\/a>a 25-year strategy for land use and transportation for the Bay Area\u2019s growing population, which is expected to surpass nine million by 2040.<\/p>\n

The plan also proposes ways to meet the state’s greenhouse gas reduction target of 15% by 2035 outlined under SB 375, the Sustainable Communities and Climate Protection Act<\/a> \u2013 namely by encouraging high-density housing near transit hubs and along corridors.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat this strategy is about is trying to be more efficient in our use of land,” MTC executive director Steve Heminger<\/a> told KQED’s Cy Musiker before the meeting<\/a>, “and also trying to be more cost-effective with our transit investment. As repeated studies have shown, if people live near BART they\u2019re much more likely to use it than if they have to drive a long distance to get there.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the meeting was not without its share of contention. Some in attendance viewed the plan as an example of bureaucratic overreach. One resident called the document a \u201cutopian masterplan.\u201d Another said it was \u201cquasi-dictatorial\u201d and \u201ccollectivist.\u201d<\/p>\n

[module align=”left” width=”half” type=”pull-quote”]\u201cWe want to make sure the public participation we\u2019ve invested for the last 18 months means something.”[\/module]<\/p>\n

Others in attendance, such as Carl Anthony, co-founder of Oakland-based Breakthrough Communities<\/a>, said the plan does not go far enough to address long-standing historical inequality in housing and access to transit across the region. His group was part of a larger coalition of social and environmental justice groups in attendance called Six Wins for Social Equity<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany people are very disappointed,\u201d Anthony told me. A high-profile figure in the Bay Area environmental justice movement, Anthony said that among other things, the current version of the plan does not take public health into consideration, nor does it ensure that proposed investments in high-density housing won\u2019t displace poor communities near transit hubs.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to make sure the public participation we\u2019ve invested for the last 18 months means something,” he said.<\/p>\n

A 2011 analysis of the goals of SB 375<\/a> by the Public Policy Institute of California suggested that policy should make driving more expensive to get people out of their cars, and that it’s just as important to co-locate transit with jobs, as with housing.<\/p>\n

A final draft of the Bay Area plan is expected later this summer, said Napa County commissioner and president of the Association of Bay Area Governments, Mark Luce<\/a>. From there, he said, completion of the Environmental Impact Report is expected to take about six months.<\/p>\n

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