Sacramento General Plan Update, Climate Action Plan, and EIR

Dyett & Bhatia led preparation of the Sacramento 2040 General Plan, which
outlines a bold new path for California’s fastest growing big city - one that
is sustainable, equitable, and just. The Plan strategically focuses growth in
a network of corridors and centers to lay the foundation for frequent, reliable
transit. It also incorporates innovative first-in-the-nation strategies to
allow and incentivize “Missing Middle Housing” in residential neighborhoods,
integrates a multimodal strategy that prioritizes person throughput and
safety, and includes a robust, data-driven policy framework for promoting
environmental justice and building resilience to urban heat and the effects of
climate change. The General Plan was prepared in parallel with a new Climate
Action & Adaptation Plan (CAAP), and by integrating the two planning processes
the City centered sustainability and placed holistic, forward-thinking
approaches to urban development and conservation at the heart of municipal
decision-making. An Environmental Justice Working Group served as a
sounding board throughout the process and helped to embed equity as the
core of the Plan. Broad-based community engagement strategies generated
input from thousands of residents throughout the process, resulted in significant
changes as a direct result, and included neighborhood listening sessions
in Sacramento’s disadvantaged communities, interactive online surveys,
in-person community workshops, a statistical survey for input on key policy
choices, and a multilingual youth-led survey focused on linguistically isolated
residents as well as a wide array of digital and in-person events. The Plan was
unanimously adopted by City Council on February 27, 2024 and won the 2024
Statewide Award of Excellence for Comprehensive Plan (large jurisdiction)
from the California APA.