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Priority Area: Climate Action
Barrier: Planning Capacity

Challenge/Local/State

Description

State Solution
(Type of Activity: Policy/Regulation )

Formal cross-agency alignment to standardize CAP, CEQA, and climate-planning requirements; synchronize timelines; engage locals earlier in regulatory processes; and reduce duplicative mandates that overburden limited planning staff.

Existing Examples of Progress: California's Climate Action Planning Framework includes several key components to support local governments. The Local Actions Appendix of the Scoping Plan provides recommendations and guidance for developing Climate Action Plans (CAPs), including methods for setting local GHG reduction targets. It outlines 13 recommended strategies within three priority areas—transportation electrification, VMT reduction, and building decarbonization—that have been validated through academic research to effectively reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The Appendix also offers guidance on determining consistency with the Scoping Plan qualitatively by incorporating project attributes associated with low per capita GHG impacts, and provides direction for preparing CEQA-Qualified CAPs.
Region: San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, San Diego, Statewide

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