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omb -- June 2017 Workshops on Senate Bill 375 Sustainable Communities Program Regional Greenhouse Gas Reduction Targets Update
Posted: 02 Jun 2017 15:58:23
Attention Business owners - your region is planning how it will balance industrial, housing, retail, green space and transportation corridors/modes for the future. Small business voices are needed to inform these conversations and decisions. How will your employees get to work (bicycle, walking, transit, personal vehicle)? What kind of jobs will be near housing or public spaces? How can open green space provide buffers between residential and industrial areas? Listen, learn, contribute. Helping your region think about what is needed for communities that are environmentally and economically sustainable is critical. Workshops in Bakersfield, Los Angeles, San Francisco (see below) Learn more: https://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/sb375/sb375.htm Staff at the California Air Resources Board (CARB) invites you to participate in workshops on proposed updates to Senate Bill 375 (SB 375) regional passenger vehicle greenhouse gas (GHG)emission reduction targets for California’s Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPO). At the workshops, CARB staff will provide an overview of and seek public input on a draft proposal for target updates. The Draft Staff Report and Draft Environmental Analysis on SB 375 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Targets Update will be available prior to the workshops at the following web link: https://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/sb375/sb375.htm The workshops will be held at the locations and dates below, and will follow the same format and presentation. BAKERSFIELD: Tuesday, June 20, 2017, 5:30pm-7:00pm LOS ANGELES: Wednesday, June 21, 2017, 1:30pm-3:00pm SAN FRANCISCO: Wednesday, June 28, 2017, 1:30pm-3:00pm All workshops will be recorded and made accessible on CARB’s SB 375 website. Workshops will not be webcast. For more information on these workshops, visit the CARB SB 375 website and see the meeting notice at: https://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/sb375/target_update_june_workshop_notice.pdf We encourage your participation and look forward to your input. For any questions regarding these workshops, please contact Lezlie Kimura Szeto, Manager of the Sustainable Communities Policy and Planning Section at Lezlie.Kimura@arb.ca.gov or call 916-327-5985. If you would like to receive notices of future meetings and the availability of materials, please sign up for our list serve at: https://www.arb.ca.gov/listserv/listserv_ind.php?listname=sb375 Background The Sustainable Communities and Climate Protection Act of 2008, or SB 375, requires MPOs to add a Sustainable Communities Strategy (SCS) to their Regional Transportation Plans. The intent of the SCS is to better integrate land use and transportation policies to meet long-term sustainability goals. To help guide these regional planning efforts, CARB is required to establish regional GHG emission reduction targets for 2020 and 2035. CARB adopted initial targets for the MPO regions in 2010. CARB is required to update the targets at least every eight years, and may revise them every four years. In August 2014, CARB staff released a preliminary draft staff report on the status of SB 375 efforts and factors that ARB could consider during development of the methodology to update the targets. CARB staff discussed this preliminary draft staff report at three public workshops during September 2014 and presented the report to the Board in October 2014. Since that time, CARB staff continued to engage stakeholders and the MPOs on the target update process through regular stakeholder meetings, additional public workshops, and an informational report to the Board in March 2017. The June 2017 workshops are an opportunity for the public to learn more about, as well as provide feedback to CARB staff on the draft proposal for target updates.