Priority Area: Housing & Climate Nexus
Barrier: Infrastructure for Housing Access

Challenge/Local/State

Description

Local Solution
(Type of Activity: Policy/Planning/Land Use )

Prioritize densification where transit and green amenities already exist (revive “small-footprint” concentration akin to the 3% strategy concept to limit sprawl and preserve regional open space).

Existing Examples of Progress: SCAG’s “Compass Blueprint” (historic regional pilot): Framed as a 3% strategy: only 3% of the land base needed to densify to meet housing needs regionally. It was praised as one of SCAG’s few plans to gain broad regional buy-in, thanks to its clarity and marketing (“easy to understand, sexy framing”). Eventually it fell out of use but remembered as a rare regional consensus-builder.
Region: Los Angeles

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