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Map(p)in(g)Action: Visualizing Regional Equity in Central California

Advancing Equity in Sustainable Community Planning and Implementation Policy Link Webinar Tuesday, May 24, 2011. Map(p)in(g)Action: Visualizing Regional Equity in Central California. Jonathan London jklondon@ucdavis.edu http:/ / regionalchange.ucdavis.edu /. Road Map.

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Map(p)in(g)Action: Visualizing Regional Equity in Central California

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  1. Advancing Equity in Sustainable Community Planning and Implementation Policy Link Webinar Tuesday, May 24, 2011 Map(p)in(g)Action:Visualizing Regional Equity in Central California Jonathan London jklondon@ucdavis.edu http://regionalchange.ucdavis.edu/

  2. Road Map • Center for Regional Change: Background and Equity Mapping • SB 375 and HUD Sustainable Communities Grant • Reflections on Equity Mapping and Social Action

  3. Sustainability: Making Connections Housing Cultural Development Health Transportation Environmental Resources/ Quality Environment Economy Land Use/ Built Environment Equity Youth Development/ Education Economic Development/ Financial Assets

  4. What makes for good indicators? • Is it relevant? • Does it relate to important values and goals • Is it understandable and usable? • To agencies and to social equity constituency • Does it help us understand links between land use/transportation and social equity? • Is the data consistent and reliable? • Can it be used to compare over time and between places? • Do they help us understand conditions for both places and people?

  5. CRC Indices

  6. Sustainable Communities Grant • $1.5 million planning grant from HUD Sustainability Communities Grant Program • Linked to SB 375: Sustainable Communities Strategy • SACOG-led consortium • Steering committee • Monthly public consortia and working groups (Health/ Housing/ Equity; Economic Development, Infrastructure; Natural Resources)

  7. Key CRC work activities • Increase opportunities for housing and employment in Transit Priority Areas “in a manner that promotes social equity, inclusion, access to opportunity, public health and neighborhood revitalization and reduces environmental impacts”. • Performance metrics and data tools • Screening analysis • Improve integration of housing, land use and transportation • Jobs-housing fit tool

  8. Vulnerability Index Components Maps • Inadequate Economic Opportunities • Poor Business Opportunities • Inadequate Housing Opportunities • Social Vulnerabilities • Poor Neighborhood Quality

  9. Opportunity Index • Good and Balanced Economic Opportunities • Good Neighborhood Business Climate • Affordable and Decent Housing • Diverse, Accessible, Affordable Transportation • Educational Opportunities • Civic Engagement

  10. Key issues/lessons in background • Value and challenges of collaborative planning and brainstorming • Student involvement and innovation • Democratizing data • Trying to see the forest and the trees and the weeds…

  11. Reflections on regional equity mapping • Great new opening and opportunities • Data and community-driven solutions better than developer driven • Danger of tyranny of the technocrats • Planning for equity, fighting for justice • Value of community voices • Wizard of Oz—where’s Toto? • Sound and fury, signifying?…

  12. For more information • Jonathan London: CRC Director jklondon@ucdavis.edu • Chris Benner (Project Lead): ccbenner@ucdavis.edu • http://regionalchange.ucdavis.edu • SACOG HUD project site: www.sacog.org/sustainable

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