The regional plan includes its first ever resilience project list, prioritizing infrastructure projects that can protect the area from sea level rise.
The San Francisco Bay Area’s Metropolitan Transportation Commission adopted a plan dubbed Plan Bay Area 2050+ that offers a long-term blueprint for transportation, urban development, housing, and climate resilience in the coming decades.
The result of a three-year planning process, “Plan Bay Area 2050+ outlines 35 strategies across transportation, housing, the economy and the environment and is intended to make the nine-county region more affordable, connected and resilient through 2050 and beyond.”
The plan includes the region’s first resilience project list, “an inventory of infrastructure projects needed to prepare the region for roughly 4.9 feet of sea level rise in coming decades.”
Read the full story: MTC Approves Sweeping 2050+ Plan To Tackle Housing, Transit And Climate Challenges
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