2005 California Government Code Sections 65070-65080 CHAPTER 2.3. LONG-RANGE TRANSPORTATION PLANNING

65070.  (a) The Legislature finds and declares, consistent with
Section 65088, that it is in the interest of the State of California
to have an integrated state and regional transportation planning
process.  It further finds that federal law mandates the development
of a state and regional long-range transportation plan as a
prerequisite for receipt of federal transportation funds.  It is the
intent of the Legislature that the preparation of these plans shall
be a cooperative process involving local and regional government,
transit operators, congestion management agencies, and the goods
movement industry and that the process be a continuation of
activities performed by each entity and be performed without any
additional cost.
   (b) The Legislature further finds and declares that the last
attempt to prepare a California Transportation Plan occurred between
1973 and 1977 and resulted in the expenditure of over eighty million
dollars ($80,000,000) in public funds and did not produce a usable
document.  As a consequence of that, the Legislature delegated
responsibility for long-range transportation planning to the regional
planning agencies and adopted a seven-year programming cycle instead
of a longer range planning process for the state.
   (c) The Legislature further finds and declares that the
Transportation Blueprint for the Twenty-First Century (Chapters 105
and 106 of the Statutes of 1989) is a long-range state transportation
plan that includes a financial plan and a continuing planning
process through the preparation of congestion management plans and
regional transportation plans, and identifies major interregional
road networks and passenger rail corridors for the state.
65072.  The California Transportation Plan shall include all of the
following:
   (a) A policy element that describes the state's transportation
policies and system performance objectives.  These policies and
objectives shall be consistent with legislative intent described in
Sections 14000, 14000.5, and 65088.  For the plan to be submitted in
December 1993, the policy element shall address any opportunities for
changes or additions to state legislative policy direction or
statute.
   (b) A strategies element that shall incorporate the broad system
concepts and strategies synthesized from the adopted regional
transportation plans prepared pursuant to Section 65080.  The
California Transportation Plan shall not be project specific.
   (c) A recommendations element that includes economic forecasts and
recommendations to the Legislature and the Governor to achieve the
plan's broad system concepts, strategies, and performance objectives.
65073.  The department shall submit the California Transportation
Plan to the Governor by December 1, 1993.  The department shall make
a draft of its proposed plan available to the Legislature, the
commission, and the regional transportation planning agencies for
review and comment.  The commission may present the results of its
review and comment to the Legislature and the Governor.  The
Legislature intends to hold public hearings and submit its comments
to the department and the Governor by conducting joint hearings of
the Transportation Committees of the Senate and Assembly.  The
Governor shall adopt the plan and submit the plan to the Legislature
and the Secretary of the United States Department of Transportation.
65074.  The Department of Transportation shall prepare, in
cooperation with the metropolitan planning agencies, a federal
transportation improvement program in accordance with subsection (f)
of Section 135 of Title 23 of the United States Code.  The federal
transportation improvement program shall be submitted by the
department to the United States Secretary of Transportation, by
October 1 of each even-numbered year.
65080.  (a) Each transportation planning agency designated under
Section 29532 or 29532.1 shall prepare and adopt a regional
transportation plan directed at achieving a coordinated and balanced
regional transportation system, including, but not limited to, mass
transportation, highway, railroad, maritime, bicycle, pedestrian,
goods movement, and aviation facilities and services.  The plan shall
be action-oriented and pragmatic, considering both the short-term
and long-term future, and shall present clear, concise policy
guidance to local and state officials.  The regional transportation
plan shall consider factors specified in Section 134 of Title 23 of
the United States Code.  Each transportation planning agency shall
consider and incorporate, as appropriate, the transportation plans of
cities, counties, districts, private organizations, and state and
federal agencies.
   (b) The regional transportation plan shall include all of the
following:
   (1) A policy element that describes the transportation issues in
the region, identifies and quantifies regional needs, and describes
the desired short-range and long-range transportation goals, and
pragmatic objective and policy statements.  The objective and policy
statements shall be consistent with the funding estimates of the
financial element.  The policy element of transportation planning
agencies with populations that exceed 200,000 persons may quantify a
set of indicators including, but not limited to, all of the
following:
   (A) Measures of mobility and traffic congestion, including, but
not limited to, vehicle hours of delay per capita and vehicle miles
traveled per capita.
   (B) Measures of road and bridge maintenance and rehabilitation
needs, including, but not limited to, roadway pavement and bridge
conditions.
   (C) Measures of means of travel, including, but not limited to,
percentage share of all trips (work and nonwork) made by all of the
following:
   (i) Single occupant vehicle.
   (ii) Multiple occupant vehicle or carpool.
   (iii) Public transit including commuter rail and intercity rail.
   (iv) Walking.
   (v) Bicycling.
   (D) Measures of safety and security, including, but not limited
to, total injuries and fatalities assigned to each of the modes set
forth in subparagraph (C).
   (E) Measures of equity and accessibility, including, but not
limited to, percentage of the population served by frequent and
reliable public transit, with a breakdown by income bracket, and
percentage of all jobs accessible by frequent and reliable public
transit service, with a breakdown by income bracket.
   (F) The requirements of this section may be met utilizing existing
sources of information.  No additional traffic counts, household
surveys, or other sources of data shall be required.
   (G) For the region defined in Section 66502, the indicators
specified in this paragraph shall be supplanted by the performance
measurement criteria established pursuant to subdivision (e) of
Section 66535, if that subdivision is added to the Government Code by
Section 1 of Senate Bill 1995 of the 1999-2000 Regular Session.
   (2) An action element that describes the programs and actions
necessary to implement the plan and assigns implementation
responsibilities.  The action element may describe all projects
proposed for development during the 20-year life of the plan.
   The action element shall consider congestion management
programming activities carried out within the region.
   (3) (A) A financial element that summarizes the cost of plan
implementation constrained by a realistic projection of available
revenues.  The financial element shall also contain recommendations
for allocation of funds.  A county transportation commission created
pursuant to Section 130000 of the Public Utilities Code shall be
responsible for recommending projects to be funded with regional
improvement funds, if the project is consistent with the regional
transportation plan.  The first five years of the financial element
shall be based on the five-year estimate of funds developed pursuant
to Section 14524.  The financial element may recommend the
development of specified new sources of revenue, consistent with the
policy element and action element.
   (B) The financial element of transportation planning agencies with
populations that exceed 200,000 persons may include a project cost
breakdown for all projects proposed for development during the
20-year life of the plan that includes total expenditures and related
percentages of total expenditures for all of the following:
   (i) State highway expansion.
   (ii) State highway rehabilitation, maintenance, and operations.
   (iii) Local road and street expansion.
   (iv) Local road and street rehabilitation, maintenance, and
operation.
   (v) Mass transit, commuter rail, and intercity rail expansion.
   (vi) Mass transit, commuter rail, and intercity rail
rehabilitation, maintenance, and operations.
   (vii) Pedestrian and bicycle facilities.
   (viii) Environmental enhancements and mitigation.
   (ix) Research and planning.
   (x) Other categories.
   (c) Each transportation planning agency may also include other
factors of local significance as an element of the regional
transportation plan, including, but not limited to, issues of
mobility for specific sectors of the community, including, but not
limited to, senior citizens.
   (d) Each transportation planning agency shall adopt and submit,
every three years, an updated regional transportation plan to the
California Transportation Commission and the Department of
Transportation.  The plan shall be consistent with federal planning
and programming requirements.  A transportation planning agency that
does not contain an urbanized area may at its option adopt and submit
a regional transportation plan once every four years beginning by
September 1, 2001.  Prior to adoption of the regional transportation
plan, a public hearing shall be held, after the giving of notice of
the hearing by publication in the affected county or counties
pursuant to Section 6061.