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 Joint Policy Committee

Agenda Package

March 16, 2007

10:00 am to 12 Noon

MetroCenter Auditorium

101 Eighth Street, Oakland

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Call to Order

CONSENT CALENDAR

Minutes of January 19, 2007 (pdf, 22KB)

Proposed Amendments to Smart-Growth Policies—Report Back on Economic Activity and Goods Distribution (pdf, 29KB)

The Committee endorsed the bulk of the proposed amendments at its January meeting, but at the request of a member deferred the policy on Economic Activity and Goods Distribution for a clarifying report.  That report is attached.

San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission Participation on the Joint Policy Committee (pdf, 52KB)

BCDC has requested to become a member agency on the JPC.  The attached memo recommends actions responding to that request.

 

2009 Regional Transportation Plan

Preparation for the next RTP is underway.  MTC staff will outline the new approach proposed for this plan with particular reference to the role of the JPC and its member agencies and the relationship to FOCUS and Climate Change.

 

Elements of a Bay Area Strategy on Climate Change (pdf, 48KB)

ABAG, the Air District, and BCDC will present existing and potential climate-change initiatives, complementing and supplementing the ideas presented by MTC at the JPC's last meeting.  The attached memo reports on climate-change public outreach efforts, lays out an initial set of organizing elements for a  regional climate-change strategy and illustrates some ideas under each element.

 

Other Business

Public Comment

Adjournment

The JPC may take action on any item listed in the agenda.

This meeting is scheduled to end promptly at 12:00 Noon.  Agenda items not considered by that time may be deferred.

The public is encouraged to comment on agenda items by completing a request-to-speak card and giving it to JPC staff or the chairperson.

Although a quorum of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission may be in attendance at this meeting, the Joint Policy Committee may take action only on those matters delegated to it.  The Joint Policy Committee may not take any action as the Metropolitan Transportation Commission unless this meeting has been previously noticed as a Metropolitan Transportation Commission meeting.