The FOCUS Program Goals were developed with significant input from Bay Area stakeholders, including local governments, regional agencies, transportation agencies, advocacy groups, community-based organizations, and the public. These goals, and the related supportive strategies, help to shape decision about future growth and development in the region.
Regional Goals
- Strengthen and support unique existing communities
- Create compact, healthy communities with a diversity of housing, jobs, activities, and services to meet the daily needs of residents
- Increase housing supply and choices
- Improve housing affordability
- Increase transportation efficiency and choices
- Protect and steward natural habitat, open space, and agricultural land
- Improve social and economic equity
- Promote economic and fiscal health
- Conserve resources, promote sustainability, and improve environmental quality
- Protect public health and safety
Strategies to achieve goals related to focused growth and development
- Encourage infill and the efficient use of land capacity within existing communities
- Provide for compact, complete, resource-efficient communities near existing or planned transit and other infrastructure
- Provide opportunities for people to live near their jobs and work near their homes
- Encourage a mix of land uses with jobs, housing, retail, schools, parks, recreation, and services in proximity
- Locate development in areas served and likely to be served by frequent passenger rail, bus, and/or ferry service
- Support community revitalization without displacing current residents
- Ensure that all socio-economic groups benefit from regional change
- Use existing infrastructure capacity and maximize return on new infrastructure investments
- Reduce the number and length of auto trips and facilitate walking and biking
- Maintain goods movement corridors and retain land uses that support related distribution and industrial uses
- Direct development so as to promote and protect public health and safety, avoid hazards, and/or mitigate development impacts
- Reserve land to accommodate future growth at appropriate densities
Strategies to achieve goals related to resource protection and conservation
- Maintain the productive function of lands for agriculture and other resource needs
- Protect and restore wildlife corridors and habitat
- Preserve the natural flow and recharge of water and support ecosystem processes
- Protect and enhance significant open space and recreation areas and networks
- Protect scenic, historic, and cultural resources that contribute to the region's identity
