addressing climate change adaptation in regional transportation plans

State-of-the-Practice Climate Change Adaptation Activities for California MPOs and RTPAsAppendixmight have an impact on new projects, the county would like to includediscussion about relevant impacts.A product that might be helpful for Shasta County would be spatial data layersin GIS format that could help the RTPA take climate change adaptation intoconsideration. For instance, these could include specific areas of vulnerabilitybased on deviation from historical variance and weather patterns. This wouldhelp SCRTPA know the range and extent of what these impacts are. Theengineered systems work well within a range of variation – but the effects ofclimate change may go beyond the engineered ranges. In these cases it would behelpful to know what the impact and timeframe is for these effects, so thatSCRTPA can plan more effectively.Future Coordination of EffortsThe region that includes Shasta County and the surrounding RTPAs areconsidered a superregion (i.e., the North State superregion). Data requests goingto this superregion for a uniform call for data is the most effective way to submita request for information. Shasta County administration includes both the publicworks department and the responsibility for the RTPA.In order to understand the effects of climate change on infrastructure withinShasta County, it could be useful to interview Shasta County public works andcity of Redding engineers to answer questions about engineered ranges forinfrastructure. One could start with the public works directors and the trafficand engineering staff. Public works within SCRTPA is a small department – onecould go straight to the director to be referred to the right staff.3.6 SAN JOAQUIN COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS(SJCOG)Efforts UnderwaySan Joaquin Council of Governments (SJCOG) is just embarking on the process ofthinking about how climate change adaptation might be incorporated intoregional planning. SJCOG is starting to engage the public on SB 375 and hasbegun developing criteria for ensuring that the mandates of SB 375 are reflectedin Long Range Transportation Plans. SJCOG has not developed comprehensivehazard mitigation plans either, although there has been project specificmitigation to shore up the levee system protecting assets from the Delta,designed to re-secure the area for the next 200 years. Currently, that system is in“jeopardy,” and is a top concern of SJCOG.Thus far, no SJCOG stakeholders or board members have mentioned adaptationas an issue of interest, with mitigation taking a much more prominent role.There have not yet been any public meetings to explain SB 375, and theB-20 Cambridge Systematics, Inc.