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Addressing Climate Change Adaptation in Regional Transportation PlansA Guide for California MPOs and RTPAsFigure 6.1Sea-Level Rise and Shoreline Vulnerability on Shoreline Areas from MTC’sTransportation 2035 PlanSource: MTC Transportation 2035 Plan for the San Francisco Bay Area, April 2009, page 49.Specific findings and further discussion will be included in the current One BayArea Plan, the RTP process planned for adoption in spring 2013.Sacramento Area Council of Governments (SACOG)On April 19 2012, SACOG adopted the Metropolitan Transportation Plan/Sustainable Communities Strategy (MTP/SCS), the Sacramento region’s longrangeplan for transportation. Since the prior MTP, California adopted SenateBill 375, which requires a Sustainable Communities Strategy. The SACOGMTS/SCS includes a short section describing the causes and effects of climatechange. It includes discussion on what factors lead to climate change; how itimpacts human health, the environment, and economy; and what components ofthe MTP/SCS can help to minimize the effects climate change will have on the6-2 Cambridge Systematics, Inc.
Addressing Climate Change Adaptation in Regional Transportation PlansA Guide for California MPOs and RTPAsregion. The impacts from climate change are focused on five areas: publichealth, water resources, agriculture, forests and landscape, and rising sea levels.The discussion is brief and high-level, focusing on the broader impacts ratherthan any specific assessment of risk or vulnerability on the regionaltransportation infrastructure.Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG)On April 4, 2012, the Regional Council of the Southern California Association ofGovernments (SCAG) adopted the 2012-2035 Regional Transportation Plan/Sustainable Communities Strategy (RTP/SCS): Towards a Sustainable Future. ThisRTP includes a section on adaptation, specifically citing the 2009 CaliforniaAdaptation Strategy Report and its projection that southern California will beexpected to manage extremes of precipitation and temperature, increased stormfrequency and intensity, and sea-level rise. The specific impacts called out inTowards a Sustainable Future include the following:Longer and hotter heat waves;Increased urban heat island impacts, such as heat-related illness and highercooling demand and costs;More damaging storms and storm surges;Greater river flooding;Increased frequency and intensity of combined sewer overflows;More intense and extended duration of droughts;Longer water supply shortages; andDeclines in local ecosystem services, such as species loss or the loss of specificecosystem types (e.g., forests or coastal wetlands).As in the SACOG MTP/SCS, the discussion of climate adaptation is brief andhigh-level, focusing on the broader impacts rather than any specific assessmentof risk or vulnerability on the regional transportation infrastructure.San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG)On October 28, 2011, SANDAG adopted the 2050 Regional Transportation Plan(RTP) and Sustainable Communities Strategy (SCS). The 2050 RTP lays out aplan for investing an estimated $214 billion in local, state, and federaltransportation funds expected to come into the region over the next 40 years.SANDAG’s RTP identifies the transportation sector as a key contributor to GHGemissions but also notes that the region is affected by the impacts of climatechange. It lists potential impacts as more frequent and intense heat waves, morefrequent and intense wildfires, degraded air quality, fresh water shortages, risingsea levels and greater storm surges, the loss of native plant and animal species,and a higher demand for electricity during peak periods.Cambridge Systematics, Inc. 6-3
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