Abstract: The Plan Bay Area 2050 Growth Geographies were adopted by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and Association of Bay Area Governments Executive Board in September 2020. These conceptual areas, which do not supersede local zoning control, are prioritized for new housing and jobs in the Plan Bay Area 2050 Final Blueprint, with specific density and land use assumptions based upon adopted Final Blueprint Strategies. The applicability of different Growth Geographies varies by local jurisdiction based upon the extent to which a jurisdiction has nominated Priority Development Areas, as shown below:All JurisdictionsPriority Development Areas (PDAs):Source - features are from Priority Development Areas (Plan Bay Area 2050).Processing for growth geographies - features from source data were not modified further. Source data is the same as what is in the growth geographies data.Priority Production Areas (PPAs):Source - features are from Priority Production Areas (Plan Bay Area 2050).Processing for growth geographies - features from source data were not modified further. Source data is the same as what is in the growth geographies data.Transit Rich Areas (partial):Source - features are portions of Transit Rich Areas that are within ½ mile of a regional rail station with headways of 15 minutes or better during the AM (6 AM to 10 AM) and PM (3 PM to 7 PM) peak periods, based on posted schedules in January 2020 or service enhancements in Plan Bay Area 2050, including Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) and Caltrain Baby Bullet station areas. (Note: regional passenger rail systems include Altamont Commuter Express, BART, Caltrain, Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit, and Capitol Corridor, but only BART and Caltrain include stops meeting the headway standard.)Processing for growth geographies - these input features were temporary data used to determine the designation, and were clipped to the “exclusion areas” shown below as well as PDAs and PPAs, so were not modified beyond their production.Jurisdictions That Have Nominated Less Than 50 Percent of Their PDA Eligible Areas as PDAsTransit Rich Areas (partial):Source - features are portions of Transit Rich Areas that are not within a PDA, PPA, or within ½ mile of a regional rail station with 15 minute peak headways or less, as identified above. These Transit Rich Areas features include both High Resource Areas and places outside High Resource Areas. The features for this portion of Transit Rich Areas were created by placing a half-mile buffer around passenger rail stations, ferry terminals, and bus stops on routes with peak headways of 15 minutes or less during peak commute period that were selected from Major Transit Stops (2017) data, and by placing a half-mile buffer around passenger rail stations, ferry terminals, and bus rapid transit routes included in Plan Bay Area 2050.Processing for growth geographies - These input features were temporary data used to determine the designation, and were clipped to the “exclusion areas” shown below as well as PDAs and PPAs, so were not modified beyond their production.High Resource Areas:Source - features were created by selecting the intersection of High and Highest Resource Areas from CTCAC/HCD Resource Opportunity Areas (2020) data and a ¼ mile buffer around bus stops with peak headways of 16 to 30 minutes, based upon a January 2020 extract of the Google Transit Feed Specification for all Bay Area transit providers, supplemented by published bus schedules where necessary.Processing for growth geographies - these input features were temporary data used to determine the
designation, and are outside the Growth Geographies highlighted above (PDAs, PPAs, and Transit Rich Areas), as well as the “exclusion areas” shown below, so were not modified beyond their production.Exclusion AreasThe following areas are excluded from Growth Geographies. Also, these areas were not used in calculating the share of a jurisdiction’s PDA-eligible land locally nominated.County-adopted wildland urban interface areas, where available,Areas of unmitigated sea level rise (i.e., areas at risk from sea level rise through year 2050 that lack mitigation strategies in Plan Bay Area 2050 Environment Element),Areas outside locally-adopted urban growth boundaries, andParkland and other open spaces within urbanized areas identified in the California Protected Areas Database.A complete description of how the Plan Bay Area 2050 Growth Geographies were developed can be found on the Plan Bay Area 2050 Growth Framework Mapping and Analysis page on GitHub.
Purpose: Growth geographies used in the production of Plan Bay Area 2050. The growth geographies feature set combines Priority Development Areas, Priority Production Areas, Transit Rich Areas, and High Resource Areas.
Status:
Progress: Complete
Maintenance and Update Frequency: As needed
Spatial Domain:
Bounding Coordinates:
West Bounding Coordinate: -123.021597685
East Bounding Coordinate: -121.5564444
North Bounding Coordinate: 38.810920821
South Bounding Coordinate: 36.9873733650001
Keywords:
Theme:
Theme Keyword Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Categories
Theme Keyword: planningCadastre
Theme:
Theme Keyword Thesaurus: None
Theme Keyword: policy
Theme Keyword: planning
Theme Keyword: growth geography
Theme Keyword: pba2050
Theme Keyword: plan bay area 2050
Theme Keyword: pda
Theme Keyword: priority development area
Theme Keyword: ppa
Theme Keyword: priority production area
Access Constraints: Other Constraints
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Data Set Credit: Metropolitan Transportation Commission, 2020
Data Quality Information:
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Process Step:
Process Description:
Transit-Rich and High-Resource area and a High-Resource Area (16-30 min bus) sliver were removed from Lafayette. The growth area and sliver had been located north of State Route 24, within the Lafayette city limit.
Process Date: 20210920
Spatial Data Organization Information:
Direct Spatial Reference Method: Vector
Entity and Attribute Information:
Detailed Description:
Entity Type:
Entity Type Label: pba2050_growth_geographies_2020
Attribute:
Attribute Label: jurisdicti
Attribute Definition: Name of city/town or unincorporated county area containing the growth geography.
Attribute:
Attribute Label: area_name
Attribute Definition: Name, if it exists, of growth geography area. Growth geographies designated as either a Priority Development Area or a Priority Production Area are the only areas with names.
Attribute:
Attribute Label: designatio
Attribute Definition: Growth designation category assigned to each geography.
Attribute Domain Values:
Enumerated Domain:
Enumerated Domain Value: High-Resource Area (16-30 min bus)
Enumerated Domain Value Definition: Area designated as a growth geography because it is within a state-designated TCAC/HCD High or Highest Resource Area within a half-mile of a bus stop with peak headways of 16-30 minutes.
Attribute Domain Values:
Enumerated Domain:
Enumerated Domain Value: Priority Development Area
Enumerated Domain Value Definition: Area designated as a growth geography because it is a Priority Development Area.
Attribute Domain Values:
Enumerated Domain:
Enumerated Domain Value: Priority Production Area
Enumerated Domain Value Definition: Area designated as a growth geography because it is a Priority Production Area.
Attribute Domain Values:
Enumerated Domain:
Enumerated Domain Value: Transit-Rich and High-Resource
Enumerated Domain Value Definition: Area designated as a growth geography because it is both within a half-mile of a rail station, ferry terminal, or bus stop with peak headways of 15 minutes or less (Transit Rich Area) and it is within a state-designated TCAC/HCD High or Highest Resource Area within a half-mile of a bus stop with peak headways of 16-30 minutes (High Resource Area).
Attribute Domain Values:
Enumerated Domain:
Enumerated Domain Value: Transit-Rich Outside HRA
Enumerated Domain Value Definition: Area designated as a growth geography because it is within a half-mile of a rail station, ferry terminal, or bus stop with peak headways of 15 minutes or less.