Technical Assistance Programs
Technical Assistance for Community Revitalization
MTP/SCS Implementation in Different Places
Infill and redevelopment, mixed-use development, pedestrian and bike-friendly main streets, thriving businesses, transit as an asset, community engagement, safe streets and public spaces—the combination and permutations of these goals and objectives are as varied as the communities in the Sacramento region. Our communities include small cities with fewer resources, mature suburbs, rural and agricultural towns, urban cities and downtowns, and disadvantaged neighborhoods. Among them all are common themes of planning, economic development and infrastructure challenges…but solutions still need to be tailored to each community.
With generous funding from a Strategic Growth Council Sustainable Communities Planning Grant (3rd round), SACOG brings technical assistance programs to help our member cities and counties identify your unique community revitalization solutions.
- Removing Barriers to Revitalization, Intensification, and Capacity Building in Centers, Corridors, Established, and Environmental Justice Communities
- Advancing Healthy Communities through Active Design/Transportation Implementation
- Complete Street Corridor Retrofit Technical Assistance and Corridor Working Group
August Working Group Meeting
Place Making and Green Streets
How can green infrastructure and public realm improvements help create walkable, sustainable streets? Placemaking, Public Art, & Green Streets
July Working Group Meeting
Low Stress Bicycle Facilities
What are considerations for installing Class IV/Protected bikeways? Low Stress Bikeways Presentation
June Working Group Meeting
Retrofit of Mid-Century Auto-Centric Corridors
What are some key principles in consider transforming mid-century auto-centric corridors into more complete streets? (Standards, Options, and Best Practices Presentation)
May Working Group Meeting
Project planning for the future of transportation
With SB 743 shifting the metrics from level of service to vehicle miles traveled as a basis for determining significant impacts of projects, how can planners and engineers approach projects and achieve positive outcomes? (SB 743 Implementation Presentation)
What are the opportunities to use the new metrics to plan and design retrofits to your existing roadways to reduce VMT, as well as exemptions and mitigations? (Place Types, Street Typologies, & Layered Networks Presentation)
Announcing the Complete Streets Corridor Working Group Topics for 2017
Monthly sessions for placemaking and economic vitality
The Complete Streets Corridor Working Group has identified the top priority topics for breaking down barriers to retrofitting infill corridors through this 2017 series. Interested cities and counties are invited to send a team of public works and planning staff to participate.
- March: Vision Zero
- April: Economics of Infill and Redevelopment
- May: Project Planning for the Future of Transportation
April Infill and Redevelopment Workshop
Michele Reeves and Robert Liberty share tips on achieving success
SACOG and Portland State University’s Urban Sustainability Accelerator (USA) program jointly hosted the Infill and Redevelopment Workshop on April 13, 2017 (view agenda). Almost 70 participants learned from regional examples and topic experts how to achieve successful infill development.
March Working Group Meeting
Vision Zero
What is Vision Zero? How can you collaborate to make decisions about a safer built environment to reduce injuries and fatalities and improve traffic safety? (presentation)
What is the City of Sacramento doing with Vision Zero, and what can local cities and counties learn from their data analysis? (presentation)
The working group examined the Vision Zero process and examples of this effort in other cities.
February Working Group Meeting
Summary
At the February meeting the working group defined a set of complete streets implementation challenges and selected a transportation engineering consultant to guide the working group through solutions to these challenges.
As part of this effort, the consultant and working group will examine five case study corridors throughout the region that represent the range of complete streets challenges in the region.
Developing healthy communities
Free outreach and design technical assistance available
WalkSacramento/Design 4 Active Sacramento is offering free project-based technical assistance for local agencies and community organizations throughout the entire SACOG region (flier). The technical assistance will advance implementation of plans and policies that support active design, health, and transportation improvements across the region by way of the program’s goals: