SCAG’s “Compass Blueprint” (historic regional pilot)

What: Framed as a 3% strategy: only 3% of the land base needed to densify to meet housing needs regionally. It waspraised 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.

Why it matters: Early, widely understood regional framing that aligned jurisdictions around focusing growth in complete, connected places. (Not current, but frequently cited as an effective model.