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The Sacramento Region is a wonderful place to live. It has comfortable and inviting neighborhoods. A robust economy. Exciting nightlife. A variety of beautiful scenery and wild places.

These qualities also mean the region will grow. In the next 45 years, we will add more than 1.7 million people and 1 million new jobs.

But with growth comes challenges. How should we grow? Where should we grow? How should we travel around the region? How will growth affect our environment?

The Sacramento Region Blueprint Project provides an opportunity to work together to answer these questions. In the past two years it developed a wealth of information about our growth and travel patterns.

There are technical and community outreach parts of the project. In addition to developing detailed land-use and travel data, an extensive community outreach effort is under way. Community workshops to discuss growth have been held in most of the region's cities and counties and the April 30 TALL Order Forum comprised a workshop for the region as a whole.

Ultimately, our elected leaders will use the detailed technical data developed during the study to make land use decisions that will influence how growth will happen now and in years to come.

It also will be used by the Board of Directors of the Sacramento Area Council of Governments (SACOG), the region's transportation planning and funding agency, to make choices about what transportation projects will best serve the region as it changes.

Another important component of the effort is a Community Design Incentive Program that will provide $500 million during the next 25 years to fund building projects that incorporate one or more of these principles of "smart growth:"

  • Transportation Choices
  • Housing Diversity
  • Compact Development
  • Use of Existing Assets
  • Mixed Land Uses
  • Quality design
  • Natural Resources Conservation

Through its public outreach and education component, a wealth of technical data for local decision makers, and funding for "smart growth" development, the Blueprint project provides a tangible opportunity to help make Sacramento as attractive tomorrow as it is today.

 
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The Blueprint project is a joint effort of the
Sacramento Area Council of Governments (SACOG) and Valley Vision.

Funding for the development of the Blueprint Web
site was made possible by a grant from the Great Valley Center.