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REDWOOD CITY Funding Options 7.1 Funding Strategies Developed Regionally BASMAA created the 'Roadmap for Funding of Sustainable Streets" in which it describes a roadmap that was developed to identify and remedy obstacles to funding for Sustainable Street projects, which are defined as projects that include both Complete Street improvements and green stormwater infrastructure, and that are maintained in a state of good or fair condition. It includes specific actions in the roadmap that are designed to improve the capacity — both statewide and in the San Francisco Bay Area -- to fund Sustainable Street projects that support compliance with regional permit requirements to reduce pollutant loading to San Francisco Bay, while also helping to achieve the region's greenhouse gas reduction targets. It also states some of the challenges of obtaining funding. To date, Sustainable Streets have faced funding obstacles due to the restrictions of various funding programs, which may not recognize the potential for overall cost savings that local agencies may achieve through multi -benefit Sustainable Streets projects. For example, some transportation grants may fund only some aspects of a Sustainable Street project, while resource grants may fund other aspects. Assembling multiple funding sources brings new challenges and costs to a project. The roadmap also identifies the financial needs to support the placement of Sustainable Streets, considering that cities throughout the Bay Area, and in other parts of California, are required to invest in widespread construction of infrastructure projects that remove pollutants from stormwater runoff in order to achieve water quality goals for San Francisco Bay. The cost is anticipated to parallel the costs to meet similar requirements in other parts of the state. For example, City of Los Angeles alone, over the next 20 to 30 years, has estimated that $7 to $9 billion dollars will be needed to implement the city's Water Quality Compliance Master Plan for Urban Runoff (Farfsing and Watson 2014). Lastly, the roadmap includes the benefits, which include climate change mitigation, air quality improvement, water quality improvement, localized flood control, and community benefits. RWC GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE PLAN GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE PLAN 33 JUNE 2019 ATTY/RE50.0075/CC RESO APPROVING THE GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE PLAN — EXHIBIT A RESO. NO. 15780 REV: 06-20-19 PR MUFF NO. 802