California Air Resources Board

Metropolitan Planning Organization for Santa Barbara County

Santa Barbara County Association of Governments (SBCAG), the federally-designated Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for Santa Barbara County, is located along California’s Central Coast. SBCAG adopted its fourth Regional Transportation Plan/Sustainable Communities Strategy (RTP/SCS) in 2025.

Connected 2050, SBCAG’s 2025 RTP/SCS, carries over many of land use and transportation strategies adopted in their previous 2021 SCS. The plan’s strategies are supporting jobs-housing balance and infill development around transit, new transit capital projects and bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure, teleworking, and agricultural worker vanpools. 

2021 RTP/SCS

• 2021 SCS CARB Executive Order accepting the SBCAG's determination that the Final SCS would meet the region's GHG emissions reduction targets (Jan. 2023)
• CARB staff's technical evaluation of the SBCAG's Final Sustainable Communities Strategy (Jan. 2023)
• CARB and SBCAG correspondence on the 2022 Regional Plan evaluation (Jan. 2023)
• 2021 Regional Plan, adopted Aug. 2021
• CARB staff's Comment Letter on the Draft 2021 Regional Transportation Plan/ Sustainable Communities Strategy (June 2021)

2017 RTP/SCS

• CARB staff's Technical Evaluation of the Santa Barbara County Association of Governments' (SBCAG) Final Sustainable Communities Strategy (Jan. 2018)
• CARB Executive Order accepting SBCAG's determination that the Final SCS would meet the region's GHG emissions reduction targets (Feb. 2018)
• 2040 Regional Transportation Plan and Sustainable Communities Strategy, adopted Aug. 2017

Past evaluations are available on request, please email sustainablecommunities@arb.ca.gov