2025 Blueprint (MTP/SCS)
The MTP/SCS is Now Blueprint
Linking land use and transportation in the Sacramento region
The creation of the original Sacramento Region Blueprint was a revolutionary undertaking and compelled a critical assessment of the relationship between transportation and land-use in the region. The strategy, completed almost 20 years ago, set the precedent for how metropolitan planning organizations undertake regional design. SACOG has chosen to carry on the innovative strategy’s legacy through the Metropolitan Transportation Plan/Sustainable Communities Strategy, or the MTP/SCS.
What is the Blueprint?
The Blueprint, to be finalized in early 2025, is SACOG members’ plan to build a connected region that includes transportation options for residents, affordable housing for the region’s growing population, and equitable investments that give all community members access to a safe and healthy region. SACOG staff and board are working now on the plan that prepares the region for 2050. Check back here for updates, progress, and announcements.
Get Involved!
Send questions or comments to blueprint@sacog.org
The MTP/SCS is federally required to be updated every four years. SACOG staff is currently beginning that work with the update being adopted in early 2025.
What should our region look like in 2050?
Take this 10-minute survey to inform our region's future.
The 2025 Blueprint is the region’s plan to achieving a sustainable, equitable, and prosperous region. Your input will inform how the SACOG Board of Directors, made up of city and county elected officials, invests state and federal transportation dollars to shape the future of the Sacramento region.
The survey will ask how you get around, what you value when it comes to your community specifically on transportation, community growth, equity, and housing.
2025 Blueprint Local Tour to Boards and Councils
July 2022 to January 2023
Overview
Starting in July of 2022, SACOG set out to present the 2025 Blueprint to every City Council and Board of Supervisors in the region. This tour was intended to broaden the region’s elected officials’ understanding of the regional long range transportation plan and empower them in their roles as decision makers in the development and implementation of the plan.
2025 Blueprint Extension
In November of 2022, the SACOG Board of Directors authorized staff to pursue state legislation to extend the Blueprint (SACOG’s Metropolitan Transportation Plan/Sustainable Communities Strategy (MTP/SCS)) schedule, which would move the plan adoption date from Spring 2024 to Fall 2025.
2025 Blueprint Pathway Land Use Evaluation
To better understand how the land use and transportation decisions we make today will affect the future and to help identify strategies that can remain durable across a range of futures despite changing and disruptive uncertainties, SACOG is undertaking a scenario planning effort, referred to as Pathways, as part of the process for the Blueprint. Pathways will provide the analysis and metrics that will serve as a learning tool for unpacking the many complex and intersecting issues facing the region over the next three decades around housing and land use, transportation management, regional growth, environmental resources, economic development, systemic racial disparities, and climate change and resilience. For more information on the framing for these pathways, click here.
For each MTP/SCS (Blueprint) update, SACOG prepares a forecast of regional growth in population, employment, and households, and a spatial distribution of growth. The land use component of each MTP/SCS update is a set of assumptions around the amount, location, and nature of growth for the next two-plus decades. The land use and transportation assumptions work together in tandem to maximize benefits and minimize negative impacts across a set of equity, environmental, and economic goals. While many factors are considered, there is not a single mathematical formula or computer program used to create the land use forecast. The analytical process is iterative. Staff evaluate regulatory, market, and policy factors to narrow in on an ambitious but achievable picture of how the region’s land use pattern could evolve.
A Closer Look at the 2024 Blueprint Pathway Land Use Assumptions
An update on the Sacramento region's long-range transportation plan
SACOG staff have developed three Pathway Land Use Assumptions. These Pathways illustrate how land use patterns, transportation investments, technologies, and policies interact to inform future outcomes of the region.
Pathway Options to 2050
To better understand how the land use and transportation decisions we make today will affect the future and to help identify strategies that can remain durable across a range of futures despite changing and disruptive uncertainties, SACOG is undertaking a scenario planning effort, referred to as Pathways, as part of the process for the 2025 Blueprint.
What you need to know about the 2025 Blueprint
What is the 2025 Blueprint?
The 2025 Blueprint will outline recommendations for public land use policy and transportation investment strategies for the Sacramento region for the next 20-30 years. This plan will lay out a set of strategies for an integrated, multimodal transportation system and regional development pattern that can create a more thriving region that works for all residents.