Environmental Justice Subcommittee

January 8, 2025 2:00 pm

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January 8, 2025, at 2:00 pm, via ZOOM, FRESNO COG Office

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Summary: The Environmental Justice Analysis of the Regional Transportation Plan includes various performance measures that compare the current transportation system to the future (2049) transportation system, which assumes the construction of all projects proposed in the preferred scenario including transit, capacity increasing, bike and pedestrian, and maintenance and operational improvement projects. The 2022 EJ Analysis included eight performance measures: access to jobs and services, travel delay, transit productivity, distribution of investments by mode, distribution of road maintenance projects, targeted active transportation investments, housing mix, and pollution exposure. The new indicator recommended by staff is the Planned Safety Projects on the High Injury Network. For the subcommittee recommendations, Fresno COG staff will provide methods in whether they will be implementable in the 2026 SCS.

Action: Staff recommends that the Environmental Justice Subcommittee approve and recommend that the Regional Transportation Plan Roundtable approve the indicators to be used for Environmental Justice analysis in 2026 Reginal Transportation Plan.

Summary: The Environmental Justice Analysis of the Regional Transportation Plan includes various performance measures that compare the current transportation system to the future (2049) transportation system, which assumes the construction of all projects proposed in the preferred scenario including transit, capacity increasing, bike and pedestrian, and maintenance and operational improvement projects. The 2022 EJ Analysis included eight performance measures: access to jobs and services, travel delay, transit productivity, distribution of investments by mode, distribution of road maintenance projects, targeted active transportation investments, housing mix, and pollution exposure. The EJ Subcommittee also has the role of selecting one performance measure to serve as the EJ indicator for the Sustainable Communities Strategy scenario. Last cycle the Subcommittee selected access to destinations as the EJ indicator.

Fresno COG staff provided a presentation at the last EJ Subcommittee meeting (11/13/24) on the proposed performance measures for the 2026 EJ Analysis, including the previous 2022 measures, indicators and methodology for their review. Fresno COG staff will provide explanation continuing to use “Access to Destinations for Disadvantaged Communities” as the EJ indicator in SCS evaluation.

Action: Staff recommends that the Environmental Justice Subcommittee approve and recommend that the SCS subcommittee/Regional Transportation Plan Roundtable approve to keep “Access to Destinations for Disadvantaged Communities” as EJ indicator to be used in SCS evaluation.

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