SANDAG provides the regional framework to connect our land use to our transportation systems, manage our population growth, preserve our environment, and sustain our economic prosperity.

Adopted in July 2004 and based on smart growth principles, the Regional Comprehensive Plan provides a blueprint for managing our region's growth while preserving natural resources and limiting urban sprawl.

The Sustainable Communities Strategy will show how regional greenhouse gas reduction targets will be achieved through development patterns, transportation infrastructure investments, and/or transportation measures or policies determined to be feasible.

SANDAG, along with a coalition of business leaders, lenders, developers, realtors, environmentalists, housing advocates, and elected officials, is working to increase the supply and affordability of homes in the San Diego region.

SANDAG prepared Trip Generation for Smart Growth: Planning Tools for the San Diego Region and Parking Strategies for Smart Growth: Planning Tools for the San Diego Region to identify trip generation rates and parking demand associated with smart growth developments.

The Smart Growth Concept Map contains more than 200 existing, planned, or potential smart growth locations. Use our interactive map to locate Smart Growth areas around the region.

The TransNet Smart Growth Incentive Program funds transportation and transportation-related infrastructure improvements and planning efforts that support smart growth development.

A key goal of RCP Implementation is to provide incentives and assistance to local member agencies to promote smart growth development in the areas identified on the Smart Growth Concept Map.

Visualization tools can help illustrate how communities can be transformed by smart growth development and transit-friendly design. In addition, photos of existing smart growth projects can showcase local success stories.

In 2005, SANDAG launched a pilot incentive funding program to promote projects that integrate smart growth land uses and transportation facilities.

The Smart Growth Design Guidelines are a valuable resource that show how good design can contribute to the quality of life in the San Diego region.

The Healthy Works/Communities Putting Prevention to Work (CPPW) program is a $372 million nationwide grant program to combat obesity and tobacco use. The goals of the program are being achieved through partnerships between the County of San Diego's Health and Human Services Agency, contractors, and community partners.

SANDAG selected the I-805 BRT/ 47th Street Trolley Station Area Planning Project to be analyzed as San Diego’s first Health Impact and Benefit Assessment, a process that brings together evidence to help decision-makers understand how proposed projects, plans, or policies could impact the health of the local community.

The SANDAG Safe Routes to School Healthy Works/Communities Putting Prevention to Work project involves developing a Regional Safe Routes to School Strategic Plan and providing implementation resources to local communities in the form of pass-through grants and technical assistance.

The Healthy Communities Campaign project is a component of the Healthy Works/Communities Putting Prevention to Work program that involves assessing and scoping Active Design Guidelines for the San Diego region, testing and developing a Health Impact and Benefit Assessment tool, providing two HIA trainings, and providing implementation resources to local communities in the form of pass-through grants and technical assistance.

Monitoring the Plan's implementation and the region's quality of life is important. See how the region has performed to date.

The SANDAG Community-Based Outreach Mini-Grant Program encourages diverse, inclusive, and active public participation from stakeholders who may not traditionally be involved in the regional public policy planning process.

SANDAG administers and monitors numerous local grant programs that support capital and planning projects toward local system improvements for the Smart Growth Incentive Program and Active Transportation Grant Program.

SANDAG staff reviews projects and determines if they are regionally significant based on the amount of traffic generated and other regionally significant issues. If significant, these projects are reviewed and comment letters are prepared based primarily on their consideration of applicable policy objectives contained in the Regional Comprehensive Plan and the 2030 Regional Transportation Plan.

In May 2009, the SANDAG Board of Directors approved funding for the initial cycle of projects under the TransNet Smart Growth Incentive Program.

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