Sustainable Communities Strategy Implementation Toolkits
Through a series of collaborative meetings in 2016, the Association of Monterey Bay Area Governments (AMBAG) staff, consultants, agency, municipal, and non-governmental partners assembled Sustainable Communities Strategy (SCS) Implementation Toolkits with examples of projects and best practices to help achieve regional and local sustainability goals and emission reduction targets through efforts to provide housing, jobs and services in proximity to one another and to better link them by transit and safe and convenient bicycle and pedestrian access.
The wide variety of tools are grouped in separate Infill Housing, Economic Development and Transportation sections of the Toolkit. Each of these sections opens with a summary of all its tools and link to individual “cutsheets” for each of the tools. These pages include detailed descriptions of each tool, which are intended to inform community discussions and decision making by local agencies and municipalities. One or more pages from the Toolkit may be downloaded and distributed by anyone at any time.
Economic Development Toolkit
The Economic Development Toolbox Contains the Following Sections:
Sales Taxes and Other Local Taxes
General Obligation Bonds
Revenue Bonds
User Fees
Housing Trust Fund
Cap and Trade
Economic Development Administration Grants
USDA Grants and Loans
Community Development Block Grants
Low Income Housing Tax Credits
New Market Tax Credits
Economic Development Toolkit Cutsheets
Infill Development Toolkit
The Infill Development Toolkit Contains the Following Sections:
Attached Sidecourt
Detached Motorcourt
Detached Sidecourt
Horizontal Mixed Use
Live/Work
'Plexes
Small Lot Single-Family
Stacked Flats (Apartments)
Tiny House Village
Townhomes or Rowhomes
Verticle Mixed Use
Infill Housing Toolkit Cutsheets
Transportation Toolkit
The Transportation Toolkit is contains the following sections:
Enhance Pedestrian Connections
Enhance Bicycle Connections
Enhance Local Transit Connections to Regional Transit
Increase Transit Service Effectiveness and Frequency
Implement Site Scale TDM Measures
Upgrade Bus Stops
Develop Local Mobility Hub
Develop Transit Streets and Corridors
Develop New Trail Connections
New On-Demand Transit Service
Carsharing/Ridesharing Strategy with Park and Ride Lots
New Express Transit Service
Develop Electric/Autonomous Vehicle Implementation Strategy
Signal Coordination with Transit Priority
Transportation Toolkit Cutsheets
AMBAG Place Types
Place Types were developed to help inform local and regional efforts to achieve the Metropolitan Transportation Plan/Sustainable Communities Strategy (MTP/SCS) goals and objectives. Because individual communities in the region may include a range of Place Types and transitions between them, tools in the Toolkit may be useful in a variety of settings. The following descriptions of the AMBAG Place Types identify the unique Intensity, Land Use and Transportation characteristics of those Place Types along with local examples of these Place Types. The Place Types were developed as part of the 2040 MTP/SCS development process and will be updated with each MTP/SCS update.
Place Types Matrix
2015 Place Type Maps
2040 Place Type Maps
Opportunity Areas
Opportunity Areas are places the region plans to grow in the future, which is where Transit Priority Areas and Economic Development Areas within the AMBAG region overlap. The results of this analysis will provide AMBAG with an initial set of Opportunity Areas, which will include proposed boundaries, underlying land use Place Type, supporting graphics and an explanation justifying the selection. Opportunity Areas were then used to identify a set of potential Transit Priority Projects (TPPs) that will support AMBAG’s SCS strategies for reducing greenhouse gases.
Opportunity Areas
