BLUEPRINT FOR A VALLEY

When traffic planners in the Sacramento Valley (California) area realized that their just-approved $22.5 billion list of new roads and transit projects would not reverse the region's worsening traffic congestion, projected to increase by 50% by 2025, a different strategy became necessary. The Sacramento Area Council of Government (SACOG) decided to embark on the Blueprint Project, a $3 million, 3-year effort to devise an alternative growth plan based on land use. This article describes how SACOG planners spent months pouring over growth patterns, local general plans, and economic trends before launching the Project in November 2002. The idea was to engage the citizens of the Sacramento metropolitan area in deciding whether to continue growing with largely low-density, single-family neighborhoods, or embrace more compact development patterns with more multifamily housing.

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• Authors:
  • Vellinga, M L
• Publication Date: 2004-5

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures;
• Pagination: p. 14-17
• Serial:
  • Planning
  • Volume: 70
  • Issue Number: 5
  • Publisher: American Planning Association
  • ISSN: 0001-2610
  • Serial URL: http://www.planning.org

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Land use planning; Metropolitan areas; Regional analysis; Regional government; Regional planning; Regional transportation; Traffic congestion; Transportation planning
• Identifier Terms: Sacramento Area Council of Governments
• Geographic Terms: Sacramento (California)
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00973954
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 18 2004 12:00AM