Land Use
2025 Blueprint Planner Workshop
Developing the 2025 Blueprint Land Use Discussion Scenario
On Monday, August 7 local land use staff were invited to a virtual workshop hosted by SACOG to discuss the 2025 Blueprint Pathways, how the pathways perform across the triple bottom line goals adopted by the SACOG board, and key considerations as SACOG develops a single set of land use and transportation assumptions the plan.
2025 Blueprint Land Use Assumptions Frequently Asked Questions
Last Updated 7/7/23
Why is the 2025 Metropolitan Transportation Plan/Sustainable Communities Strategy (MTP/SCS) called the Blueprint?
The “2025 Blueprint Update” is the 2025 MTP/SCS. The name is a nod to the now 20-year-old Sacramento Regional Blueprint Project, a historic undertaking and critical assessment of the relationship between transportation and land-use in the region.
Predicting Population, Housing, and Economic Growth for the MTP/SCS
One of the first steps in the Metropolitan Transportation Plan/Sustainable Communities Strategy (MTP/SCS) is to develop a set of regional growth projections. These projections are an estimate for where the region will be in the next 20 to 30 years in terms of population, employment, and households.
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.