1. Secure adoption and ratification of the Compact for a Sustainable Bay Area.

2. Reach regionwide consensus on the application of the Commitments in the Compact to land use through the Bay Area Livability Footprint (which becomes a basis for true smart growth due to an integrated accommodation of all the Commitments, not an ad hoc drawing of arbitrary lines that produce negative and unintended consequences). The Footprint Project process will seek consensus on optimizing compact land use through infill, land recycling, and transit villages development by delineating densities to be achieved in land use throughout the region. This also would be an "alternative growth scenario" for MTC to run their model.

3. Secure state legislation to recognize the Compact and Footprint map as the preferred growth plan for the Bay Area region, providing streamlined land use procedures (including CEQA) for growth and development consistent with this. Implicit in this implementation strategy would be floors on density (in other words, density minimums, not maximums as is now the case with zoning).

4. Incorporate into state and regional funding priorities for transportation and other infrastructure (by both law and regulation), targeting investment to development consistent with the Compact and Footprint map. This would include a change in law that would provide transportation and other infrastructure funding only to jurisdictions providing their fair share of housing in the future. This is the most significant incentive that can be provided for jurisdictions to accommodate in planning and to approve construction of housing adequate in both supply and affordability.

5. Secure state legislation to achieve a jobs-housing balance. At the heart of this approach is the notion that state law must be enacted that requires every local jurisdiction to plan to accommodate (in both supply and affordability) housing to match increases in population and job generation. That is not the law today and, if enacted, would drive the kind of changes we all envision for smart growth.

Draft Compact for A Sustainable Bay Area | Community Capital Investment Team (C2IT)| Bay Area Livability Footprint