The san diego association of governments (sandag) is a regional planning agency responsible for preparing the long-range regional transportation plan (rtp) and related financial plans for the san diego region. As in many other rapidly growing areas, transportation revenues from traditional sources have not matched the growing need fornew and expanded transportation facilities and services to keep pace with growing travel demands. Sandag has used the long-range planning process to develop the rtp as the mechanism for identifying funding shortfalls and recommending actions to obtain the revenues neededto implement the projects and programs recommended in the plan. An outgrowth of this process was sandag's successful establishment of a1/2% transportation sales tax program. Sandag is continuing to address remaining funding shortfalls by analyzing the potential implementation of a regional development impact fee program to fund major regional transportation capital projects. This paper appears in transportation research record no. 1305, Finance, planning, programming, economic analysis, and land development 1991.
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