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Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr submitted comments on the
Environmental Impact Report for the Regional Transportation Plan
for the San Diego region. In the comment letter dated November 29,
2007, it stated,
"The RTP will significantly increase GHG emissions at the same
time that the state has mandated reducing those emissions
significantly." and "...the Smart Growth Concept Map includes a
large number of areas (193) that are widely dispersed in suburban
and rural areas. Many of these areas are not near employment
centers and not in areas that can be efficiently served by regional
transit (See Independent Transit Planning Review ITPR).

and "predicted growth pattern ...seems to be focused on
developable land rather than access to transit or employment." 

The letter includes other examples of where the region disregarded
the insights and recommendations of the ITPR to improve transit
planning that would reduce VMT.

We submit these comments into the CARB process soas to bring to
light the importance of requiring existing RTPs and especially
transit plans, to change in order to reduce VMTs and GHGs.