Bay Area Regional Smart Growth Strategy

Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) and other regional agencies

DC&E led an interactive public workshop process that served as the core effort for the creation of ABAG's Smart Growth Strategy for the Bay Area. DC&E led two workshops each in eight of the Bay Area's nine counties, at which participants worked with an interactive computer model in real-time to allocate new development geographically and assess the transportation, environmental and land use impacts of various growth scenarios. After the workshops, DC&E and its subconsultants used the results to formulate a smart growth strategy that demonstrates how the Bay Area can accommodate new growth in a sustainable fashion. This project won the Congress for the New Urbanism Charter Award in 2002.