Documents
A - Public Comments and Responses- B - Amendment No. 11 to the 23 MTIP
- C 2023 MTP
- D Project List
- E Financial Forecast
- F Land Use Forecast
- G Land Use Documentation
- H Plan Performance
- I Communication and Outreach
- J Environmental Justice
- K Air Quality Conformity
- L Congestion Management Process
- M Public Participation Plan
- N Plan Requirements and Regulatory Framework
- O Aviation
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2023 Federal Metropolitan Transportation Plan
In November of 2022, the SACOG Board of Directors authorized SACOG staff to pursue state legislation to extend the Blueprint (SACOG’s Metropolitan Transportation Plan/Sustainable Communities Strategy (MTP/SCS)) schedule, which would move the plan adoption date from Spring 2024 to Fall 2025. Since then, Assembly member Aguiar-Curry introduced a bill (AB 350) that will provide SACOG with the legislative authorization needed to keep the current SCS in compliance with state law for an additional two years. The legislation was approved by the Governor on October 10, 2023. This legislation went into effect on January 1, 2024. The SACOG Board approved the 2025 Blueprint on November 20, 2025.
As work moves forward on the major update of the regional plan, SACOG is still required to maintain a federally compliant Metropolitan Transportation Plan. To ensure consistency with federal requirements, SACOG adopted this plan on November 2023 (four years after the adoption of the 2020 MTP/SCS). The 2023 Federal MTP largely carried forward the projects, programs, and policies included in the 2020 MTP/SCS. The 2020 Federal MTP maintains the regional growth forecast of the 2020 plan but will add four additional years of growth to 2044. The purpose of adding four additional years to the plan is to confirm the transportation plan’s validity and consistency with current and forecasted transportation and land use conditions and trends and to extend the forecast period to at least a 20-year planning horizon.
The Federal MTP largely maintains costs and revenue assumptions but provides additional evidence and explanation to support the inclusion of two future sales taxes (one in Placer County and one in Sacramento County). Both counties are continuing to work toward putting sales tax measures before voters in future ballot measures. SACOG will not include any new sales tax assumptions within the years covered by the Metropolitan Transportation Improvement Program (MTIP), but intends to provide sufficient information to support the reasonableness of these new revenue sources for planning purposes in later years of the Federal MTP.
The 2023 Federal MTP will also include the Air Quality Conformity Determination demonstrating the plan’s conformity with the State Implementation Plans for air quality, in accordance with the Transportation Conformity Requirements in 40 C.F.R. 51 and 93, as required by the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments.