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What is the goal of Community
2050?
The goal of Community 2050 is to build a regional vision and develop performance measures to:
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Foster a more efficient regional land use
pattern
- Improve mobility through a combination of
strategies and investments
- Accommodate adequate housing supply for the full
spectrum of the population
- Minimize impacts to valuable habitat and
productive farmland
- Establish a process to secure local government
and community support
Who will be involved?
The general public, civic groups,
business interests, the agricultural community, environmental
groups, and government officials.
What makes Community 2050
different from other planning efforts?
Tools
We are producing a GIS-based urban
growth model for the entire region that allows us to analyze development impacts
20+ years into the future including the impacts of current growth patterns as
well as alternative growth patterns in a graphical and quantitative format.
Coordination
This process brings everyone to the
table to work our solutions to the problems that confront us all. City
governments, county government, area non-profits, business organizations,
environmental organizations, have and continue to provide input and direction
to this effort. Although customary on the project or area-wide scale, this type
of coordination has not occurred on a regional scale like it has been with
Community 2050.
What is the process?
Community 2050 works at the local
level. The process assumes that the city councils and the board of supervisors
are the decision makers who will guide its development, determine the vision,
policies, and programs that will be included, and lead its implementation
What is the schedule?
Community 2050 is scheduled to be complete
by winter 2008. Public workshops will be held in spring 2007 to engage the
public on topics of regional vision, goals, alternatives evaluation, and
programs and policy development. At each stage briefings will be made to local
agencies to provide comment and direction.
Where does funding come from?
Community 2050 is made possible by
the California Department of Transportation and its CA Regional Blueprint Planning
Program. As part of this the San Luis Obispo Council of Governments applied for
and received grant funding that is matched with funds from each of the local
governments in the San Luis Obispo Region.
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