Envision Bay Area
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Project Summary
| Client: | Silicon Valley Community Foundation (Mountain View, California) |
| Type: | Regional Planning |
| Status: | 2010 - 2011 |
| Links: | YouChooseBayArea |
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Envision Bay Area is a strategic initiative led by Silicon Valley Community Foundation to help residents and community leaders make informed decisions about the building and growth that will shape the future environment, economy and everyday life in communities throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Calthorpe Associates deployed its Rapid Fire scenario tool to build and model regional scenarios that depict the land use and transportation choices facing the region, and the consequences of those choices for a range of critical indicators. The scenarios explore how variations in jobs-housing mix and balance, development patterns, and transportation investments impact land consumption, energy and water use, greenhouse gas emissions, fiscal impacts, and household costs.
The scenario choices, along with their environmental, fiscal, and social impacts, are presented via a dynamic website (www.youchoosebayarea.org), and at workshops held throughout the region in partnership regional planning agencies. The project is integral to ongoing regional planning efforts, including the development of the Bay Area’s Sustainable Communities Strategy (SCS) mandated by Senate Bill 375, California’s groundbreaking climate legislation.
