California Air Resources Board

Metropolitan Planning Organization for the Sacramento Metropolitan Area

The Sacramento Area Council of Governments (SACOG) is the federally-designated Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for the six-county, 22-city Sacramento metropolitan region and is the transportation planning agency responsible for developing and implementing the long-range transportation plan, known as the Metropolitan Transportation Plan (MTP), or Blueprint. SACOG does this by coordinating transportation planning and long-range land use planning efforts among the local jurisdictions, and by programming funding for transportation infrastructure in the region.

SACOG’s 2020 MTP/SCS continues to emphasize the key strategies from the first SCS that locate the majority of new housing and jobs within the region’s existing urbanized areas, reduce barriers to infill development, and increase density in targeted areas served by transit to make the transit system more viable and efficient. SACOG also took a "fix-it-first" approach when prioritizing roadway funding while leveraging roadway maintenance projects to incorporate “complete street” elements. Roadway maintenance and rehabilitation projects were prioritized over projects that would add new roadway capacity.

Relevant CARB Comment Letters

• January 10, 2024, comment letter (accessible facsimile without written signature) from California Air Resources Board Executive Officer Steven Cliff, Ph.D., to the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) about the Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) for the Yolo 80 Corridor Improvements Project
• October 10, 2022, comment letter from California Air Resources Board Executive Officer Steven Cliff, Ph.D., to the Sacramento Transportation Authority about the Sacramento County Transportation, Maintenance, Safety and Congestion Relief Act of 2022 - Retail Transactions and Use Tax Initiative

2025 MTP/SCS "Blueprint"

• SACOG's Technical Methodology for Quantifying GHG Emissions
  • SACOG's submission(June 2023)
  • CARB staff's response letter and attachment for SACOG's Technical Methodology (October 2023)

2020 MTP/SCS

• 2020 MTP/SCS CARB Executive Order accepting the Sacramento Area Council of Governments' (SACOG) determination that the Final SCS would meet the region's GHG emissions reduction targets (Oct. 2020)
• CARB staff's technical evaluation of the SACOG Final Sustainable Communities Strategy (Oct. 2020)
• 2020 Metropolitan Transportation Plan/Sustainable Communities Strategy, adopted Nov. 2019
• CARB staff's Comment Letter on the Draft 2020 Metropolitan Transportation Plan/Sustainable Communities Strategy (Nov. 2019)
  • SACOG's Response to CARB staff's Comment Letter, see pages 157-161 of the PDF file (Nov. 2019)
• SACOG's Technical Methodology for Quantifying GHG Emissions
  • First submission (Aug. 2018)
  • 1st addendum (Aug. 2019)
  • 2nd addendum (Sept. 2019) 
  • Additional communications (Oct. & Nov. 2019)
  • CARB staff's Response to SACOG's Technical Methodology (Nov 2019)

2016 MTP/SCS

• 2016 MTP/SCS CARB Executive Order accepting the Sacramento Area Council of Governments' (SACOG) determination that the Final SCS would meet the region's GHG emissions reduction targets (Sept. 2016)
• CARB staff's technical evaluation of the SACOG Final Sustainable Communities Strategy (Sept. 2016) 
• 2036 Metropolitan Transportation Plan/Sustainable Communities Strategy, adopted Feb. 2016

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