Local Land Use

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There are ways to fight climate change that can save all of us – families, taxpayers, governments, and businesses – huge amounts of money. How? By creating more efficient neighborhoods that put housing, jobs, shops and services closer together and offer a range of transportation options. As a result, we can save households an average of $5,200 per year on transportation costs – and help meet California's emissions reductions targets.

Our current pattern of growth - sprawl - is costing us too much. It requires taxpayers to spend too much on infrastructure, developers to spend too much on parking, and families to spend far too much to get where they need to go.

Huge savings for all are in reach if we harness the potential of California's new smart growth law, SB 375, and shift transportation and land use policies and investments to support a new paradigm for planning.

Learn how we'll get there, get cutting-edge data, and read inspiring case studies in TransForm's new report, which has both an abbreviated and extended version.

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Windfall for All: How Connected, Convenient Neighborhoods Can Protect Our Climate and Safeguard California's Economy

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Introduction

In 1998, member groups of the Transportation and Land Use Coalition (TALC) implored the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) to initiate a regional "Smart Growth Visioning Process." TALC's goal was, and is, to break the self-fulfilling prophecy of sprawl, whereby we predict sprawl will take place on the far suburban fringe of the region then subsidize that development with billions of dollars of