either as members of abag or mtc and we will be happy to answer any of your questions today. thank you mr. chairman. >> thank you, very much. commissioner mar? >> thank you, i wanted to thank them for the regional public hearings that have been going on as well. i see from the east bay and other places how much you get beaten up for trying to plan wisely and how to for a more sustainable future and to reduce the greenhouse gases as well. dy want to ask, i know that there are different proposals from the right and the left that are brought up from the equity organizations and environmental groups on the left and on the right. tea party to libertarians and others. and i am just wondering if you could comment on the san francisco hearing that and helped it from bcdci and which weiner attended as well was fas fascinating and if you could give us a feedback from counties and i know that marin county is coming up on april 29th. and another one on the 29th. and then may first on may day, alamena county and if you could give us some input and that is coming in from the regional count

since then, about a month ago, mtc, abag, metropolitan transportation commission and association of bay area governments, released the draft plan bay area, the draft sustainable clean air strategy that brings the growth strategy and transportation strategy together. they are out for a comment period which ends next week. so, our hope today is to brief you on the content of the plan and e-i-r and staff will be working on letters to mtc and abag on the contents, so, we hope to hear your feedback to help us form those letters. i'm here with my colleagues liz bryson who will speak to the transportation strategy of the plan and victoria wise from our department who will brief you on the draft e-i-r. if i can get the presentation. so, just to talk a little bit about why the plan is happening in the first place, the entire plan bay area is based on population projections. growth and jobs, growth in housing, and the premise is to shift that growth towards urbanized areas and more directly shift the most intense growth to actual urban areas like san francisco, san jose, and oakland. the reasons

but actually great proportion of those are determined significant and unavoidable because mtc and abag have no ability to control local jurisdiction and positions the mitigation measures and project sponsors in different projects. for ceqa purposes and conservative analysis they say, well, we really can't control if local jurisdictions are going to implement these mitigation measures. and because of that we're going to say that plan results in significant and unavoidable impacts. so, with that just wanted to focus the discussion a little bit on the potential of c-e-q-a review implications of the draft e-i-r. so, one of the goals is to provide for modified c-e-q-a review with the intent to encourage land use planning and development that's consistent with the sustainable community strategies. and specifically what that means is after adoption of the sustainable communities strategy of this plan, certain projects, mixed use projects, transit priority projects, and sustainable community projects, that meet a very particular set of criteria and do not have additional impacts on the environ

so, in order to think more about these questions of using the pda planning funds and future abag funds, the authority is actually required to prepare something that we call the transportation investment and growth strategy which is pretty much an exercise to synthesize a lot of work we've done through all of the priority development area plans looking at transportation needs, bringing it together in order to help us be able to think about what the transportation priorities are within each of the pda's. so, i will leave it at that. we put together a draft document with input from the different agencies, sort of being refined and we'll take it through a board process at our authority board in the summer. and i'm going to now turn the presentation over to victoria to do the e-i-r section and at the end would be happy to answer any questions. >> thank you, victoria, [speaker not understood]. we've been reading the draft e-i-r and the plan bay area as are many jurisdictions have as well because the draft e-i-r is currently out for public review. as sarah mentioned, that 45 days closes next

transportation commission and we also have with him mirum ceon from the association of bay area governments abagnd they have been working for many, many years on developing this plan and they are here to present. >> good morning chair avalos and commissioners, thank you for having us here and i will get us started and then steve will cover the second portion that focuses on the implementation. this gives you a quick picture. it is being done in san francisco and the coordination of land use and tran powertation planning are essential to this plan and as you know for sb375, the reduction of the greenhouse gases and the housing at levels. and the most important is the focus on local lands and the local additions, the local neighborhood planning to put together this plan. we are trying to address the economic health of the region and the retention of the open space and natural resources and the effective use of our public investments and this is worth sharing the quality of life that we enjoy today with future generations. there has been a lot of analysis that we are not going into a lot of detail,

there has been definitely interest throughout the region as abag putting this forward as a platform for how do we advocate for supportive funds, but no action towards what that tool or mechanism might be. >> in this plan, though, is there a reference in the plan? i mean, you mention you know, this being a tool for redevelopment [speaker not understood]. >> two things, the last chapter of the plan is called implementation and advocacy piece and they layout a platform. these are the pieces of legislative change and other types of policies we need to pursue in order to make this plan successful. so, that's where the reference to finding the successor to redevelopment is discussed. the other thing i would mention, this actually came before the current plan bay area, but it receives a funding commitment in the plan. we did something called the transit oriented affordable housing loan fund or toa. and it's revolving loan fund that i think the very first project helps finance affordable housing development in the tenderloin. so, it's not >> aye. gigantic. it's definitely not going to solve the