Grassroots Convening on SB 375 and Sustainable Communities Strategies

The San Francisco Foundation, Urban Habitat, and Public Advocates invite you to a convening on May 12th to discuss the opportunities and risks that Senate Bill 375 may pose in building more complete and vibrant communities.

Enacted in 2008, Senate Bill 375 is the nation's first law to control greenhouse gas emissions by curbing sprawl and poor land-use development. Under the law, each region is to integrate the previously disjointed regional planning processes for transportation, land-use, and housing, and develop a Sustainable Communities Strategy (SCS), a long range regional land-use and transportation plan intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and create healthier more sustainable communities.

Our regional agencies are launching the SCS planning process this summer for the Bay Area. It is a remarkable opportunity to change the rules around housing, transportation, and land-use. Rules that affect all of us, and rules that have often marginalized many of our communities. Community-based organizations and social justice groups must move quickly to have impact on the regional SCS growth allocations, alternative development scenarios, and investment strategies that will be determined through this planning process.

Please join us for a conversation and to learn more about the law and opportunities for engagement in designing a fair and equitable Sustainable Community Strategy for the Bay Area. Together we can send the message that unless our communities are equitable, they cannot be sustainable.

For more information and to read a draft agenda, please visit our Environment News page.

RSVP online below by May 7th. Lunch will be provided, and space is limited.

Please contact Sarah Chun at ssc@sff.org with questions.