Staff at the California Air Resources Board (CARB) invites you to
participate in workshops on proposed updates to Senate Bill 375
(SB 375) regional passenger vehicle greenhouse gas (GHG)emission
reduction targets for California's Metropolitan Planning
Organizations (MPO). At the workshops, CARB staff will provide
an overview of and seek public input on a draft proposal for
target updates. The Draft Staff Report and Draft Environmental
Analysis on SB 375 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Targets
Update will be available prior to the workshops at the following
web link: https://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/sb375/sb375.htm
The workshops will be held at the locations and dates below, and
will follow the same format and presentation.
BAKERSFIELD: Tuesday, June 20, 2017, 5:30pm-7:00pm
LOS ANGELES: Wednesday, June 21, 2017, 1:30pm-3:00pm
SAN FRANCISCO: Wednesday, June 28, 2017, 1:30pm-3:00pm
All workshops will be recorded and made accessible on CARB's SB
375 website. Workshops will not be webcast.
For more information on these workshops, visit the CARB SB 375
website and see the meeting notice at:
https://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/sb375/target_update_june_workshop_notice.pdf
We encourage your participation and look forward to your input.
For any questions regarding these workshops, please contact
Lezlie Kimura Szeto, Manager of the Sustainable Communities
Policy and Planning Section at Lezlie.Kimura@arb.ca.gov or call
916-327-5985.
If you would like to receive notices of future meetings and the
availability of materials, please sign up for our list serve at:
https://www.arb.ca.gov/listserv/listserv_ind.php?listname=sb375
Background
The Sustainable Communities and Climate Protection Act of 2008,
or SB 375, requires MPOs to add a Sustainable Communities
Strategy (SCS) to their Regional Transportation Plans. The intent
of the SCS is to better integrate land use and transportation
policies to meet long-term sustainability goals. To help guide
these regional planning efforts, CARB is required to establish
regional GHG emission reduction targets for 2020 and 2035. CARB
adopted initial targets for the MPO regions in 2010. CARB is
required to update the targets at least every eight years, and
may revise them every four years.
In August 2014, CARB staff released a preliminary draft staff
report on the status of SB 375 efforts and factors that ARB could
consider during development of the methodology to update the
targets. CARB staff discussed this preliminary draft staff
report at three public workshops during September 2014 and
presented the report to the Board in October 2014. Since that
time, CARB staff continued to engage stakeholders and the MPOs on
the target update process through regular stakeholder meetings,
additional public workshops, and an informational report to the
Board in March 2017.
The June 2017 workshops are an opportunity for the public to
learn more about, as well as provide feedback to CARB staff on
the draft proposal for target updates.
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