What are the results of the visioning process?
Basically, there are two products from the workshops. The narrative Smart Growth Vision presents a picture of the region as it might look 20 years from now if smart growth principles guide our future land use decision-making. As a Vision, this narrative (which is highlighted in the Project Final Report) does not impose a requirement on local governments. The second product of the workshops is a set of jobs and housing numbers developed by workshop participants who envisioned how their communities might look if different land use strategies are used. More than two thousand participants from the nine Bay Area counties participated in these workshops. Many different scenarios and kinds of development were considered, which in the end produced the set of jobs and housing numbers. These jobs and housing numbers, based on a decision by the Steering Committee, were used as a starting point by ABAG staff for the development of policy-based Projections as contrasted with the traditional trends-
