How we got to Plan Bay Area- A resource of Government Documents and Industry links.

How we got to Plan Bay Area

*American National Park System The Critical Documents 1864

http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/anps/

*Population Council created in 1952, founded by John D. Rockefeller 3rd

http://www.popcouncil.org/about/timeline

*Outdoor Recreation for America

A Report to the President and to the Congress by the Outdoor Recreation 

Resources Review Commission (ORRRC)

Laurance S. Rockefeller, Chairman, January, 1962

http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/anps/anps_5d.htm

Nixon Administration

*Rockefeller Commission report: Population and the American Future

http://www.population-

security.org/rockefeller/001_population_growth_and_the_american_future.ht

NEPA National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 sets up:

http://ceq.hss.doe.gov/

US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA)

http://www.epa.gov/

Environmental Quality Council  (EQC)

EQC Reports: 

*The Unfinished Agenda

www.geraldbarney.com/Rockefeller_Brothers_Fund/Unfinished.pdf

Report Sponsored by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund

*The Use of Land

Report Sponsored by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund

Environmental Protection goes global: United Nations

UN Bruntland Commission report Our Common Future, the three E's: equity, 

environment economy the pillars of Sustainable Development

www.un-documents.net/our-common-future.pdf

http://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/index.php?menu=122

http://www.un-documents.net/index.htm

http://www.un-documents.net/vp-d.htm

UN Agenda 21 (international environmental management system)

Plan for Inventory and control of all: Land, Minerals, Plants, Animals, Water,  

Energy, Means of production, Construction, Education, Human beings and 

Information in the world.

Land cannot be treated as an ordinary asset. 

National land use plan changes our urban, suburban and rural land use to 

urban, open space, agriculture and wildand/habitat.

http://www.sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/.../Agenda21.pdf

UN Biodiversity Assessment

http://www.un.org/earthwatch/biodiversity/assessment.html

Unsustainable: 

http://www.freedomadvocates.org/what-is-unsustainable/

Bush Administration

Signed on to the 1992 Earth Summit Action Plan for sustainable development 

aka Agenda 21

http://www.c-span.org/video/?26576-1/rio-earth-summit

Clinton Administration 

Executive Orders creates President' Council on Sustainable Development 

http://clinton2.nara.gov/PCSD/

Sustainable Development is Smart Growth (urban) and wildlands (rural)

HUD grant to American Planning Association (APA)

This APA legislative guidebook was prepared under HUD

Cooperative agreement H-59-51‐CA in 2002

http://www.planning.org/growingsmart/

Obama Administration

Executive Order creates Rural Council

http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/rural-council

http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ceq/sustainability/plans

http://www.usa.gov/Agencies/Federal/Executive.shtml

http://archive-sustainability.performance.gov/

Sustainable Development in Federal Agencies

United States federal executive branch agencies implementing sustainable 

development: through Sustainability performance plans

*Department of Agriculture (USDA) 

http://www.dm.usda.gov/emd/docs/2013%20USDA%20Strategic%20Sustai

nability%20Performance%20Plan.pdf.

*Department of Commerce (DOC) 

2013 Strategic Sustainability Performance Plan

*Department of Defense (DOD) 

http://www.acq.osd.mil/ie/download/green_energy/dod_sustainability/Stra

t%20Performance%20Plan%20FactSheet_GPP_v2.pdf

*Department of Education (ED) 

2013 Strategic Sustainability Performance Plan

*Department of Energy (DOE) 

http://www1.eere.energy.gov/sustainability/pdfs/doe_sspp_2012.pdf

*Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) 

http://www.hhs.gov/about/sustainability/2013-sustainability-plan.pdf

*Department of Homeland Security (DHS) 

http://www.dhs.gov/sustainability-performance-plan

*Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) 

http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/program_offices/administration/

sustainabilityplan

*Department of Justice (DOJ) 

http://www.justice.gov/jmd/doj-sspp-june2012.pdf

*Department of Labor (DOL) 

http://www.dol.gov/open/sustainability/

*Department of State (DOS) 

http://www.state.gov/m/pri/rls/plans/176092.htm

*Department of the Interior (DOI) 

http://www.doi.gov/greening/sustainability_plan/index.cfm

*Department of the Treasury 

http://www.treasury.gov/about/organizational-

structure/offices/Documents/Treasury%202013%20Public%20SSPP%20Final.pdf·  

*Department of Transportation (DOT) 

http://www.dot.gov/mission/sustainability/our-sustainability-efforts-0

*Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)

http://www.green.va.gov/environment/sspp.asp

State of California 

AB32 Climate Change Act

http://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/ab32/ab32.htm

SB375 Regional Sustainable Community Strategy

http://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/sb375/sb375.htm

State Housing Element Law

Regional Housing Needs Allocations (RHNA)

http://www.abag.ca.gov/planning/housingneeds/ 

Essential Habitat Connectivity

https://www.dfg.ca.gov/habcon/connectivity/

https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Planning/Connectivity

Joint Powers Act (JPA)

http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=gov&group=06001-

07000&file=6500-6536

Joint Policy Committee (JPC/JPA)

http://www.abag.ca.gov/jointpolicy/

 Federal Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPO's) is funding priority 

development areas (PDA's) through One Bay Area Grant Program (OBAG). 

Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) is our MPO.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:heneEnrjWTEJ:ww

w.dot.ca.gov/hq/tpp/offices/orip/index_files/Updated%2520Files/MPO-

RTPA_1-10.pdf+&cd=7&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

 Federal Congestion Management Agencies (CMA's) funding priority 

conservation areas (PDA's). Valley Transportation Agency (VTA) is our 

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/congestion_management_process/cmp_g

uidebook/cmpguidebk.pdf

 Council of Governments (COG's): the Association of Bay Area Governments 

(ABAG) is a COG.

COG's across California:

http://www.abag.ca.gov/planning/interregional/stateirp/state_program.htm

COG's worldwide:

http://www.abag.ca.gov/abag/other_gov/rcg.html

Regional Initiatives

http://onebayarea.org/regional-initiatives.html

Plan Bay Area

http://onebayarea.org/plan-bay-area.html

Follow the Money: Nonprofit Maps

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderprofile.asp?fndid=5322

The Last Choice of Freedom:

1. Local » Regional » Global Governance

*UN Declaration of Human Rights and Freedoms

http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/

*UN Charter: Purposes and Principles

http://www.un.org/en/documents/charter/chapter1.shtml

2.  City » County » State » National Government

United States of America Declaration of Independence

http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transcript.html

United States Constitution

http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_transcript.html

California State Constitution

http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes.xhtml