Summary: Ten members appointed to consider land use and air quality issues and the SECAT program. (Meets monthly or as needed)
SACOG's Land Use & Air Quality Committee recommends action by the Board of Directors on the following topics:
Airport Land Use Compatibility Planning Issues (Recommendations for the Airport Land Use Commission)
Blueprint Implementation Program
Caltrans Blueprint Grant Program
SACOG Community Design Grant Program
I-PLACE3S Modeling Program
Land use projections for the Metropolitan Transportation Plan
Regional GIS Committee Data Collection and Partnership contracts
Rural-Urban Connections Strategy goals, outreach plans, and contracts
Regional funding programs
New Federal Eight-Hour Ozone Standard
State Implementation Plan (SIP)
AB 32 Implementation
SACOG Carbon Inventory
Climate Change Education Efforts
Transportation Control Measures
Sacramento Clean Air and Transportation Program (SECAT)
Climate Registry
Greenhouse Gas Inventory (GRIP)
Regional Funding Programs
SB 375 Implementation
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The Board has established a number of advisory committees as a means of obtaining advice from citizens, key interest groups in the community, and partner planning agencies on a variety of subjects.
SACOG seeks advice from local agencies on transportation and land use plan content and investment decisions. SACOG works not only with the agency staff, but with governing boards, technical committees, and advisory committees. These advisory committees typically include representatives of citizens' advocacy groups, the private sector, major colleges and universities, transportation management professionals, and private citizens unaffiliated with any of the above groups. Committees are augmented, restructured, added to, or discharged from time to time based upon the issues and concerns faced by the Board. Currently, the advisory committees that report to the Land Use & Air Quality Committee are:
Airport Advisory Committee — Details
A fifteen-member committee composed of managers of the public use airports located within SACOG's Regional Transportation Planning Agency boundary, as well as representatives from Beale Air Force Base. The Committee provides recommendations to the SACOG Board of Directors regarding the Regional Aviation Capital Improvement Plan, prepared biennially, and advises SACOG staff and the SACOG Board on aviation issues of regional concern. (Meets on call)
Planners Committee — Details
A twenty-eight-member committee consisting of the planning directors or their designees of each of SACOG's member jurisdictions. The committee was originally formed to advise SACOG on the development of the Blueprint Project and is now advising on Blueprint implementation and the Regional Housing Needs Allocation process. (Meets on call)
Regional Planning Partnership — Details
A committee with close to 100 representatives from local, regional, state, federal agencies, and tribal governments, as well as representatives of business, environmental, and minority organizations and associations. The Partnership assists SACOG with its transportation and air quality planning responsibilities. It also serves as the primary forum for interagency and public consultation requirements of federal transportation and air quality regulations. (Meets monthly)
Sacramento Emergency Clean Air and Transportation (SECAT) Air Quality Policy Group — Details
A ten member committee consisting of representatives from each of the air districts within the Sacramento federal ozone nonattainment area, Federal Highway Administration, Environmental Protection Agency, Air Resources Board, and SACOG. The committee assists SACOG and its air quality planning partners in developing a strategy or strategies that focus available resources on achieving both attainment of the National Ambient Air Quality Standard for ozone and conformity goals. (Meets on call)
Sacramento Emergency Clean Air and Transportation (SECAT) Technical Advisory Committee — Details
The SACMET TAC is composed of planning and engineering professionals from local public agencies, as well as consultants and others who are registered users of the SACMET travel demand model. The TAC has two roles: One is to provide SACMET users with training and technical support on the model; the other is to provide a forum for discussion of issues related to SACMET. Proposed SACMET changes and improvements and the results of changes and improvements made are presented for information and discussion. Modeling issues of a more general nature, but germane to SACMET or the Sacramento region, are also discussed. The SACMET TAC meets two or three times per year, on an as-needed basis. SACMET TAC mailings go to about 50 people. (Meets as needed)
