Bay Area planners on Monday released a sweeping draft plan outlining how the region could grow through 2050, proposing new strategies to tackle housing affordability, improve public transit, and prepare for climate risks across nine counties and 101 cities. The Metropolitan Transportation Commission and the Association of Bay Area Governments unveiled Draft Plan Bay Area 2050+, an update to the region’s long-term plan adopted in 2021, along with a draft environmental impact report open for public comment until Dec. 18. The plan charts a 25-year roadmap for a more “affordable, connected, diverse, healthy and vibrant” Bay Area, built on 35 strategies covering housing, the economy, transportation and the environment. A new companion effort, Transit 2050+, aims to coordinate improvements acros

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