Plan Bay Area 2050+ Draft Blueprint: Tell us what you think
Creating the Blueprint is a key step in developing Plan Bay Area 2050+.
Public engagement is a fundamental element of the plan update process.
September 6th workshop in Contra Costa; Deadline for comment: September 7, 2023
The Plan Bay Area 2050+ Blueprint will integrate strategies across the four elements of the plan — the economy, the environment, housing and transportation — to create a more equitable and resilient future for all.
Beginning in summer 2023 and wrapping up in late 2024, staff will develop the Blueprint over two phases: the Draft Blueprint and the Final Blueprint. Given Plan Bay Area 2050’s solid foundation of 35 strategies, the Draft Blueprint phase for Plan Bay Area 2050+ will focus on making targeted refinements to select plan strategies. (See Plan Bay Area 2050 Executive Summary)
Assumptions for the select Blueprint strategies will be refined to reflect ongoing implementation efforts from Plan Bay Area 2050, while also leveraging findings from previous planning efforts that may be relevant to the post-COVID environment.
Equity and performance analyses will also be conducted during the Draft Blueprint phase to evaluate how the plan’s strategies are supporting progress towards making the Bay Area more affordable, connected, diverse, healthy and vibrant for all.
Furthermore, Transit 2050+ — the comprehensive re-thinking of the six transit-related strategies in Plan Bay Area 2050’s transportation element — will develop an integrated regional transit network that will be incorporated into the Final Blueprint.
While still remaining fiscally constrained per federal planning requirements, the focused plan update approach will consider whether to pursue targeted updates to — or to reaffirm — the Regional Growth Forecast (while maintaining its forecast methodology), as well as to the External Forces, the Growth Geographies and the Needs and Revenue Forecasts.
Culminating in late 2024, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) and the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) will consider adoption of the Final Blueprint, which will then move forward in the plan update process as the preferred alternative for environmental review.
Getting Involved
Creating the Blueprint is a key first step toward updating the plan itself, and thus the Blueprint planning phase will require iteration and deep engagement of the public, partners and elected officials.
A first step in developing the Blueprint is to better understand what has changed as the region emerges from the pandemic. This summer, MTC and ABAG staff will be traveling across the region to speak to the community to understand how life has changed for individuals as the Bay Area enters the “new normal.”
MTC and ABAG are taking input from community members and partners to help inform the development of the Draft Blueprint.
You can make your voice heard in a variety of ways! Attend a pop-up workshop near you; participate in our survey; or submit comments via email, telephone or mail.
Find an event near you and join the conversation to help staff better understand how the last three years have impacted life across the Bay Area.
Participate in Our Survey
A first step in updating the plan is to better understand what has changed for you as the region emerges from the pandemic. MTC and ABAG want to learn how the “new normal” may be impacting your life.
- Participate in the survey in English(link is external)
- 快來參與中文版的問卷調查(link is external)
- Participa en la encuesta en español(link is external)
- Tham gia khảo sát bằng tiếng Việt(link is external)
The survey will close on September 7, 2023.
The survey also will help inform the development of Transit 2050+, a parallel long-range planning effort that will produce a first-of-its-kind plan to re-envision the future of the public transit network in the nine-county Bay Area, and the expenditure plan for a potential transportation revenue measure. The revenue measure is key in advancing implementation of Plan Bay Area.
Join a Pop-up Workshop
This summer, MTC and ABAG staff will be traveling across the region to speak to the community to understand how life has changed for individuals as the Bay Area emerges from the pandemic. Attend a pop-up workshop near you and tell us what the “new normal” means to you.
Contra Costa County
Diablo Valley College — Pleasant Hill Campus
Wednesday, September 6, 12 to 3 p.m.
321 Golf Club Road, Pleasant Hill, CA
About Plan Bay Area
Plan Bay Area is a long-range regional plan jointly developed and adopted by MTC and ABAG every four years.
the attachments to this post:
Plan Bay Area 2050 Guiding Principles
Plan Bay Area 2050+
Plan Bay Area 2050 The 4 Elements
