Blueprint is a comprehensive regional process integrating land use and transportation, air quality and other regional concerns. It began with an in-depth modeling and research process, conducted by SACOG in cooperation with all jurisdictions in the region, that looked at how future growth is likely to occur. The first product, called the Base Case Future, outlined the effects on housing availability, land consumption, environmental and traffic impacts, and included in-depth demographic projections.

It began in March 2003 with a series of neighborhood workshops that use state-of-the-art, real-time interactive geographic information systems (GIS) software to create "scenarios" for specific neighborhoods. The workshop's GIS software instantly gives citizens feedback as they make different development choices. The scenarios will be used later to shape alternatives for workshops that will let citizens pursue county and regional scenarios. Blueprint will reach thousands of citizens over the course of 2003 and 2004 through these workshops, media, surveys, forums and town halls http://www.sacregionblueprint.org/sacregionblueprint/the_project/forum.cfm  

Blueprint has long-term benefits for the region in the wealth of data and training that it offers the local jurisdictions that make land-use decisions. The millions invested in the technology to conduct Blueprint will permanently enhance local planning and create a long-range regional context for local decision making.

For more information, contact Mike McKeever at (916) 457-2264.

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