The Regional Comprehensive Plan (RCP) serves as the long-term planning framework for the San Diego region. It provides a broad context in which local and regional decisions can be made that move the region toward a sustainable future – a future with more choices and opportunities for all residents of the region.
The RCP better integrates our local land use and transportation decisions, and focuses attention on where and how we want to grow, providing a vital alternative to where we could end up if we continue with business as usual. The RCP contains an incentive-based approach to encourage and channel growth into existing and future urban areas and smart growth communities.
The final RCP, Executive Summary, final Program Environmental Impact Report (EIR), RCP technical appendices, and RCP comments and responses are available below in PDF format.
Questions or comments on the RCP can be directed to Coleen Clementson, RCP Project Manager, at ccl@sandag.org or 401 B Street, Suite 800, San Diego, CA 92101 or (619) 699-1905 (fax). To order bound copies or a CD of the RCP and/or its EIR, please contact rcp@sandag.org.
RCP Performance Monitoring
Monitoring our progress is an important element of RCP implementation. To date, SANDAG has produced two reports, an initial report that established a baseline against which to monitor future progress, and a 2007 annual monitoring report. These reports and their individual chapter files are posted below in PDF format. Additional information is also available at www.sandag.org/rcpmonitoring.
Public Participation
The RCP calls for the preparation of a Smart Growth Concept Map to identify locations that can support smart growth and transportation investments. SANDAG and the local jurisdictions worked on the initial map from 2004 through 2006. The SANDAG Board accepted an updated map in July 2008. The initial map was used for refining the regional transit network, and for identifying other transportation needs during the comprehensive update of the 2030 Regional Transportation Plan (RTP). The map will be used to help determine eligibility to compete for TransNet Smart Growth Incentive Program funding.
Public workshops to discuss the Concept Map and the 2007 update of the RTP were held in April 2006.
Public participation is always welcome at the Regional Planning Committee and the Regional Planning Technical Working Group meetings. Contact us with your ideas and comments. | 
