Transportation planning
Community Based Transportation Planning
One way in which the Office of Community Planning works to influence the integration of land use and transportation decisions at the local level is through the Community Based Transportation Planning (CBTP) grant program. This Program is primarily used to seed planning activities that encourage smart growth and livable communities. It helps communities develop concepts or plans that promote efficient land use-transportation infrastructure investments, which address sustainable growth while maintaining community value and integrity. The CBTP grant program is competitive.
Upon an award, eighty percent (80%) of a CBTP project cost is funded by the Caltrans grant. The remaining 20% is contributed by the grantee as a local match. CBTP products are expected to help leverage program funds from other sources that will forward future project phases. CBTP products are expected to help foster sustainable economies, increase available affordable housing, improve housing/jobs balance, encourage transit oriented and mixed use development, expand transportation choices, and reflect community values.
CBTP grant funded projects should include innovative public and stakeholder participation in the planning and decision-making process. Each project should be a smart growth - livable community demonstration approach to collaborative planning. Completed CBTP products should contribute to positive local planning practice by influencing and integrating those products into the larger regional or blueprint plan. CBTP projects should also set an example, and provide best practice planning solutions for communities statewide.
CBTP Grant Cycle - Current and past.
Community Based Transportation Planning (CBTP) Grant Program Fact Sheets - Summaries of completed grant projects, by District, through Fiscal Year 2003-2004. Subsequent Fiscal Year Fact Sheets to be posted as projects are completed.
Note: The Project Focus and Project Goals sections of the Fact Sheets contain the language as it was presented in the application.
For additional information regarding CBTP, please contact Ed Philpot, (916) 653-8817