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SANDAG 2008 year in review rule
Monitoring report tracks region's progress rule
Underage drinking and driving:
A local and national concern
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New bicycle commuter
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SANDAG invites nominations
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 Actions from the December Board of Directors meeting
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   the rEgion
 

Monitoring report tracks RCP Monitoring Report
region's progress

Traffic delays and crime have dropped in the region, but there is a shortage of affordable housing and per capita energy use continues to grow, according to an annual SANDAG report monitoring progress toward implementing the region’s comprehensive plan.

SANDAG released the Regional Comprehensive Plan 2008 Annual Performance Monitoring Report in December. The report tracks progress toward implementing the Regional Comprehensive Plan, a long-term planning framework for San Diego County that defines a vision and lays out goals, key issues, and needed actions.

The monitoring report evaluates progress on 39 specific indicators, including urban form and transportation, housing, economic prosperity, the environment, public facilities, and borders.

Some areas of progress identified in the report include:

  • The share of new housing units built in Smart Growth Opportunity Areas increased.
  • Annual hours of traffic delay per traveler have decreased.
  • Transit ridership continued to increase.
  • The regional crime rate continued to decrease.
  • The percent of solid waste that was recycled was close to achieving the state-mandated target.
  • Recycled water use continued to increase substantially.

 Areas for improvement included:

  • Housing production in the very low-, low-, and moderate-income categories did not keep pace with above-moderate housing production: 58 percent of the above-moderate income housing goal identified in the Regional Housing Needs Assessment (RHNA) has been met, while less than 10 percent of the very low-, low-, and moderate-income housing goal has been met. Overall, only 27 percent of the RHNA housing production goal has been met during the first half of the housing element cycle.
  • Following beach width increases at all beaches in 2006, beach widths declined in 2007; for multiple beaches, widths are even smaller in 2007 than they were in 2005.
  • Unemployment increased for the first time in three years.
  • Per capita energy usage in the region continued to increase, moving further away from the target established in the Regional Energy Strategy.
  • Plans estimate that the region will reach physical landfill capacity in 2016 – however, unless proposed permit changes are implemented, permitted capacity could be reached prior to 2016.

Project Manager

Christine Eary, Associate Regional Planner
Phone: (619) 699-6928, E-mail: cea@sandag.org