Butte County Association of Governments (BCAG)

Metropolitan Planning Organization for Butte County

Butte County Association of Governments (BCAG), located in Northern Central California, is the federally-designated Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for the Butte County, four-city metropolitan region and the transportation planning agency responsible for developing and implementing the long-range regional transportation plan, known as the Regional Transportation Plan/Sustainable Communities Strategy (RTP/SCS).

The 2016 RTP/SCS specifies the policies, projects, and programs necessary to maintain, manage, and improve the region’s transportation system. The 2016 RTP/SCS covers the 24-year period between 2016 and 2040. BCAG’s 2016 RTP/SCS maintains the same set of land use and transportation strategies adopted in their previous 2012 RTP/SCS, carrying over the “Balanced” land use scenario. The “Balanced” scenario brings together local general plan update efforts, the regional blueprint, and habitat conservation planning in a way that balances the distribution of new growth across central, established, and new growth areas in the region, and incorporates infill and redevelopment strategies.

2016 RTP/SCS

CARB staff's technical evaluation of the Butte County Association of Governments' (BCAG) Final Sustainable Communities Strategy (May 2017)
CARB Resolution accepting BCAG's determination that the Final SCS would meet the region's GHG emissions reduction targets (May 2017)
Regional Transportation Plan, adopted Dec. 2016

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