Regional Transportation Plan and Sustainable Communities Strategy Roundtable

2026 SCS Strategies and Preliminary Scenarios

Summary: The Sustainable Communities Strategy (SCS) will include the implementation of land-use and transportation strategies that aim primarily to reduce greenhouse gas emissions due to travel, and secondarily to give rise to co-benefits that advance equity and sustainability throughout the Fresno County region. These strategies will help form the basis of how the SCS scenarios will be developed.

COG staff has compiled a list of applicable strategies from multiple sources, including the 2050 California Transportation Plan, and previous RTP/SCS’s from Fresno COG’s 2022 RTP/SCS and other MPOs throughout the State. COG Staff has also developed an initial set of preliminary scenarios based on the compiled list of applicable strategies. The SCS Subcommittee will meet over the next several months to further refine the SCS strategies and scenarios. Recommendations from the SCS Subcommittee will then be presented to the RTP Roundtable for discussion, approval and recommendation to the Fresno COG Policy Board for final adoption.

Action: Information only. The Roundtable may provide direction at its discretion.

Summary: The transportation needs outreach survey garnered over 1,000 project suggestions from the public.  In this presentation, staff will provide a more detailed summary of these suggestions, including breakdowns by mode and jurisdiction, a highlight of popular and most-requested projects, and other useful metrics.

Action: Information only. The Roundtable may provide direction at its discretion.

Summary: Following Fresno COG Policy Board direction to begin developing the expenditure plan for the 2026 Measure C renewal effort, Fresno COG and Fresno County Transportation Authority (FCTA) staff have produced a list of stakeholder categories recommended to solicit for seats on the Measure C Renewal Committee.

The Measure C Renewal Committee, as it is being called generically at this point, is a work in progress that is envisioned to potentially subdivide to form one or more subcommittees based on particular categories of expenditures.  While its membership has not yet been identified, Fresno COG and FCTA staff have homed in on broad groupings of stakeholders that have a particular interest in helping shape the revised expenditure plan and the broader renewal effort generally.

The Committee would be loosely structured in the beginning, guided closely by a strong facilitator, with the expectation that additional parameters and guidelines for discussion, along with specific actions, products or deliverables, would become a regular outcome of each meeting.

Staff recommends the Committee membership include the following stakeholder categories: all 16 local jurisdictions within Fresno County; active transportation interests; Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)/seniors; agriculture; aviation; building and development; business; Caltrans; community-based organizations; construction; education; emergency services/public safety; environmental organizations/interests; trucking industry; health and welfare interests; organized labor; political advocates; transit; and the public.

Fresno COG and FCTA staff would attend each meeting in a technical capacity to answer questions and clarify information, but not play a role in deliberations.

Action: Information only. The Roundtable may provide direction at its discretion.

Upcoming Meeting Dates:

No meetings in December.

Next meeting is January 22, 2025.