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Regional SACOG blueprint stresses housing first as Roseville planners seek projects for 2025 plan
Summary
James Corless, executive director of the Sacramento Area Council of Governments, told the Roseville City Council on March 19 that SACOG’s 2025 regional blueprint centers on housing as the top concern across the agency’s six-county region.
James Corless, executive director of the Sacramento Area Council of Governments, told the Roseville City Council on March 19 that SACOG’s 2025 regional blueprint centers on housing as the top concern across the agency’s six-county region.
“From a transportation plan, actually, the first and foremost theme that we heard was housing. Housing, housing, housing,” Corless said, summarizing outreach results SACOG will use to finalize the long-range plan.
The blueprint is a combined transportation and land-use strategy SACOG prepares roughly every four years. Corless said the plan looks out 25 years and is intended both to meet state and federal conformity and greenhouse-gas requirements and to serve as a playbook for pursuing competitive state and federal funding.
City staff said Roseville will be included in a jurisdiction highlight within the draft blueprint. Lauren Hawker, senior planner for the city of Roseville, told councilmembers that projects already marked for the draft include the Commercial Corridors project, rapid blink (rapid transit), fleet electrification, the Dry Creek Greenway East Veil construction and other projects that aid regionwide connections and reinvestment in older areas of the city.
Corless said the region is projected to keep growing faster than the state and national averages and that the blueprint seeks to shape development patterns to reduce vehicle-related pollution and transportation greenhouse-gas emissions. “We do that not just through transportation, we do it through economic development,” Corless said, noting the plan’s emphasis on locating housing closer to jobs and services.
City and SACOG staff said SACOG will release a draft for public comment in May together with a draft environmental impact report, and the SACOG board expects to consider adoption in November 2025. Corless and staff asked local officials to use the blueprint as a tool when seeking funding from Sacramento and Washington, D.C.
Why it matters: SACOG’s blueprint influences where regionally significant transportation and land-use projects are prioritized and can improve a jurisdiction’s competitiveness for competitive grants. Councilmembers and staff framed the blueprint as an opportunity to highlight Roseville projects and attract funding for local priorities.
