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Growth Conundrum: SANDAG Hosts Workshops On Transportation Planning

By Alison St John / Reporter
Published April 26, 2010 at 3:00 AM PDT
This story was published more than 14 years ago.
Growth Conundrum: SANDAG Hosts Workshops On Transportation Planning
San Diego County is projected to grow from 3 million people to 4.4 million people by the year 2050. The San Diego Association of Governments starts a series of workshops tonight inviting the public to get involved with the plan to deal with the region's growth.

Tonight's Workshop

Monday, April 26, 2010, 4 to 7 p.m.

Escondido City Hall, Mitchell Room

201 N. Broadway

Escondido, CA 92025

For additional dates and more information about the workshops, go to www.sandag.org/2050rtp.

San Diego County is projected to grow from 3 million people to 4.4 million people by the year 2050. The San Diego Association of Governments, or SANDAG, starts a series of workshops tonight inviting the public to get involved with the plan to deal with the region's growth.

San Diego is the first county in the state of California that will update its growth and transportation plan with the state’s new carbon reduction laws in mind.

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SANDAG Director of Land Use and Transportation Planning Charles Stoll says the challenge is to figure out how to accommodate another million people in the region, while cutting down on greenhouse gases.

"Your listeners might ask, 'Geez, 2050, why should we care about that? It’s 40 years away,'" said Stoll. "And our feeling is we’ve got 40 years to get there and how are we going to get there? So how people feel about the transportation system today is very important for how we plan for the future."

SANDAG says the county will need 1.9 million jobs and 1.5 million housing units by 2050.

Unlike in the past, very little of the growth over the next 40 years is expected to be from people moving here from elsewhere. Most of it will be due to the birthrate and longer life expectancy of today’s residents.

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Alison St John
Alison St John currently serves as a general assignment reporter and occasionally co-hosts KPBS Midday Edition. She fell in love with KPBS Radio when she arrived in San Diego in 1985 and first heard NPR. She has been a voice on KPBS Radio since 1989, and has served as a news reporter for radio, TV and the web, as well as anchoring, hosting, producing and editing. Alison has reported on stories about North County and was based in the KPBS' North County Bureau. Alison covered the metro beat during the critical period of the San Diego City pension crisis, and the education beat while Alan Bersin was the controversial Superintendent of San Diego City School District. She covered health when the industry was converting to managed care and told welfare reform stories in the late 1990s when Clinton was “ending welfare as we know it.” She has covered land use issues extensively, looking at the challenges of meeting a growing population while preserving community character, and developing a better transportation system to meet environmental concerns. She has done many stories on the military in San Diego, and the series she edited on the challenges veterans face returning from active duty to civilian life won “Best of Show” from the San Diego Society of Professional Journalists. She occasionally hosts the KPBS Roundtable and KPBS Midday Edition. Alison has won awards from the San Diego Press Club, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Associated Press TV and Radio Association, and the California Golden Mike Awards. Alison was born in Tanzania, brought up in Scotland, and earned her degree in psychology and sociology from Durham University in England. Her postgraduate diploma is in student counseling. She worked in England, Nigeria, Switzerland, Belgium, India, and Japan before moving to the United States in 1981. She now lives in Oceanside and enjoys how her community is growing and changing.
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