REPORT TO BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN ADVISORY COMMITTEE
SUBJECT
Title
Metropolitan Transportation Commission Complete Streets Checklists for Housing Incentive Pool Grant (Shariat)
Report
BACKGROUND
In March 2022, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) updated the Bay Area's regional Complete Streets Policy by adopting Resolution 4493 (Attachment 1). The Complete Streets Policy requires all projects seeking $250,000 or more of regional discretionary transportation funding or endorsement from MTC to submit a Complete Streets Checklist. The checklist requires project collaboration with affected transit agencies and review by a local (City or County) Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee (BPAC).
The MTC Housing Incentive Pool (HIP) grant program provides transportation grants to promote the production and preservation of affordable housing. This grant program rewards local jurisdictions for producing or preserving housing units that are affordable to very low, low, and moderate income households within designated Priority Development Areas (PDAs) and Transit Priority Areas (TPAs).
DISCUSSION
The City was notified of a HIP grant award for $1,754,000 based on the number of affordable housing units occupied from 2018 to 2022. Jurisdictions awarded HIP funds had to submit at least two project recommendations with Complete Streets Checklists through a letter of interest to MTC. The project recommendations requested must total 120% to 200% of the jurisdiction's HIP award (Attachment 2).
Eligible project categories for the HIP program are the same as MTC's One Bay Area Grant (OBAG 2) program and include:
* Bicycle and Pedestrian infrastructure and programs
* Safe routes to school infrastructure and programs
* Safety projects and planning
* Complete Streets improvements
* Transportation Demand Management (TDM) program
* Mobility Hub
* Transit capital and station improvement.
Staff reviewed the HIP program and submitted applications for the following two pro...
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