San Joaquin Council of Governments (SJCOG)

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Metropolitan Planning Organization for San Joaquin County

San Joaquin Council of Governments (SJCOG), the federally-designated Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for San Joaquin County, the northernmost of the eight San Joaquin Valley MPOs.  SJCOG is located south of Sacramento and east of the San Francisco Bay Area. SJCOG adopted its first Regional Transportation Plan and Sustainable Communities Strategy (RTP/SCS) in 2014.

The 2014 RTP/SCS land use strategies include increasing the amount of infill development within existing urbanized areas, leading to denser development and an increase in the proportion of multi-family and small-lot single-family homes as compared to conventional lot sizes. Coupled with this policy of more compact urban development, especially in the County’s largest cities, the plan dedicates an increased amount of funding for active transportation infrastructure and public transit, with six additional bus rapid transit routes in Stockton as well as some expansion of transit services in other communities. With this emphasis on transit-oriented development, the region anticipates that nearly 50 percent of new jobs and 40 percent of new homes will be located within a half mile of transit service and a substantial amount of prime farmland will be conserved through the plan year of 2040.

2018 RTP/SCS

2014 RTP/SCS