Climate Action Plan for Transportation Infrastructure: goals., the official text

An act to add Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 13989.10) to Part 4.5 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code, relating to transportation.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

Existing law establishes the Transportation Agency, which has the power of general supervision over specified state entities. Existing law requires the agency to develop and report on legislative, budgetary, and administrative programs to accomplish comprehensive, long-range, coordinated planning and policy formation in the matters of public interest related to the agency.
This bill would establish specified goals for the Climate Action Plan for Transportation Infrastructure (CAPTI), consistent with state law.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.
Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 13989.10) is added to Part 4.5 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code, to read:
3.
Climate Action Plan for Transportation Infrastructure13989.10.
(a) The Legislature finds and declares
that the Climate Action Plan for Transportation Infrastructure was first adopted by the agency.
(b) The Climate Action Plan for Transportation Infrastructure goals are all of the following, consistent with state law:
(1) Build toward an integrated, statewide rail and transit network, centered around the existing California State Rail Plan that leverages the California Integrated Travel Project to provide seamless, affordable, multimodal travel options in all contexts, including suburban and rural settings, to all users.
(2) Invest in networks of safe and accessible bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure, particularly by closing gaps on portions of the State Highway System that intersect local active transportation and transit networks or serve as small town or rural main streets, with a focus on investments in low-income and disadvantaged communities throughout the state.
(3) Include investments in light-, medium-, and heavy-duty zero-emission vehicle infrastructure as part of larger transportation projects, support the innovation in and development of the zero-emission vehicle market, and help ensure zero-emission vehicles are accessible to all, particularly to those in more rural or remote communities.
(4) Reduce public health and economic harms and maximize community benefits to disproportionately impacted disadvantaged communities and low-income communities, in urbanized and rural regions, and involve these communities early in decisionmaking.
(5) Make safety improvements to reduce fatalities and severe injuries of all users towards zero on the roadways, railways, and transit systems by focusing on context-appropriate speeds, prioritizing vulnerable user safety to support mode shift, designing roadways to accommodate for potential human error and injury tolerances, and ultimately implementing a safe systems approach.
(6) Assess and integrate assessments of physical climate risk as standard practice for transportation infrastructure projects to enable informed decisionmaking, especially in communities that are most vulnerable to climate-related health and safety risks.
(7) Promote projects that do not significantly increase passenger vehicle travel, particularly in congested urbanized settings where other mobility options can be provided, while recognizing that highway expansion projects serve different purposes and as a result assessing the impacts of each project will vary based on context and project-specific analysis.
(8) Promote compact infill development while protecting residents and businesses from displacement by funding transportation projects that support housing for low-income residents near job centers, provide walkable communities, and address affordability to reduce the housing-transportation cost burden and auto trips.
(9) Develop a zero-emission freight transportation system that avoids and mitigates environmental justice impacts, reduces criteria and toxic air pollutants, improves freight’s economic competitiveness and efficiency, and integrates multimodal design and planning into infrastructure development on freight corridors.
(10) Protect natural and working lands from conversion to more intensified uses and enhance biodiversity by supporting local and regional conservation planning that focuses development where it already exists and align transportation investments with conservation priorities to reduce transportation’s impact on the natural environment.