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The Regional Transportation Plan (RTP) is a comprehensive Plan guiding transportation policy for the region and makes recommendations concerning improvements to the existing transportation network of highways, transit, air and water, rail and bicycling. The RTP is required by the California Transportation Commission (CTC) to be updated every three years by SLOCOG.
The most recent RTP, Vision 2025, acts as a blueprint for a transportation system that addresses transportation projects that will meet our access and mobility needs now and in the future. To view the RTP in .pdf format, click here.
The 2010 RTP update is currently underway.
SB 375/Sustainable Communities Strategy
SB 375 (Steinberg) requires the 18 Metropolitan Planning Organizations and Regional Transportation Planning Agencies in Calfiornia to address greenhouse gas emission reductions in a Sustainable Communities Strategy (SCS) which is to be incorporated into the Regional Transportation Planning (RTP).
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is required to set greenhouse gas reduction targets for each region in the state including San Luis Obispo County by September 30, 2010. These targets will be used by SLOCOG to prepare a SCS that would be submitted to CARB for consideration.
Prior to the release of the greenhouse gas reduction targets, SLOCOG will develop a preliminary Sustainable Communities Strategy (pSCS) as part of the 2010 RTP update. The pSCS would be used as a foundation to prepare a complete SCS in the next RTP update. We will be developing an SCS-compliant RTP when standards and targets are established at the state level.
On April 8, 2009 the SLOCOG Board established a Joint Policy Committee that identified six elected officials. The role of the Joint Policy Committee will be to provide policy guidance for the process of developing a Sustainable Communities Strategy (SCS) as part of the Regional Transportation Plan to meet the requirements of SB 375.
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