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Reducing Need to Travel and Vehicle Miles Traveled
Focus Areas: Demand management, mode shifts, transportation planning, land use planning
Recent Developments:
California Bill Encourages Greater Land Use Density
California S.B. 375 has been passed by both houses and is expected to be signed into law by Gov. Schwarzenegger. The bill aligns three planning processes - transportation, environment and housing - and provides incentives, such as waiving air analysis studies, if development proposes increased density. The initial target is for reduction of 2 million tons of CO2 equivalents through land use changes by 2020, in support of A.B. 32 which mandates a reduction of 169 million tons by 2020.
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Smart growth and GHG reductions
Brad Chase Says:A new analysis shows that California could achieve 6 times the originally predicted GHG reductions from implementing smart growth policies and practices.
AB 32 which requires California to meet 1990 GHG emissions levels by 2020 set a target of 2 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent reductions from smart growth strategies. The new analysis shows that smart growth strategies are likely to achieve reductions between 14.4 and 17.9 million metric tons of CO2 equivalents.