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6.3.B. - Page 3 default RHNA numbers (totaling 2,784 units) that ABAG would have otherwise assigned to Redwood City. As previously described, the sub-regional RHNA process includes an opportunity for the cities and the County to negotiate housing unit trades between willing partners. Trades involving Daly City, San Bruno, Hillsborough, San Mateo, Redwood City and the County are incorporated into the proposed final allocation (Attachment 2). For example, Redwood City and San Mateo took a few units (five each) from the County while other jurisdictions took a few units from Hillsborough. Additional trades can be included up until June 18, 2013 when ABAG formally adopts the Sub-regional Allocation for San Mateo County. Relationship to SB 375 - Sustainable Communities Strategy SB 375, also known as California's Sustainable Communities Strategy (SCS) and Climate Protection Act, was adopted in August of 2008. The regional planning effort to create the Sustainable Communities Strategy required by SB 375 has been underway since 2010 in an effort called Plan Bay Area. The Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) are primarily responsible for implementing SB 375 for the Bay Area. SB 375 calls for the integration of housing (per State-mandated Housing Element law) with sustainable transportation planning and investment (consistent with the Metropolitan Transportation Commission's (MTC) Regional Transportation Plan (RTP)) and sustainable land use planning (per ABAG's regional long range planning efforts that support a future land use pattern with appropriate transportation investment) over a 25 year planning period. The SCS also establishes the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, consistent with the regional targets of the California Air Resource Board's (CARB),Z as one of the main goals for regional planning. Redwood City is already supporting the SCS through the implementation of its adopted General Plan, certified Housing Element, Downtown Precise Plan and Zoning Amendments that are facilitating housing development near transit, employment and services. This type of in-fill transit-oriented development, in turn, will help to reduce GHG emissions (by reducing vehicle miles traveled) and costly infrastructure investment inherent with urban sprawl. The One Bay Area Grant (OBAG) program rewards jurisdictions for sustainable regional planning efforts through transportation funding opportunities. The OBAG Program requires that 70% of the transportation grant funds in larger counties such as San Mateo County go to projects that serve Priority Development Areas (PDAs).3 As Z The target for the Bay Area is a 7 percent per capita reduction in GHG emissions by 2020 and a 15 percent per capita reduction by 2035. 3 PDAs are locally-identified and regionally adopted in-fill development opportunity areas near transit. PDAs were established through the FOCUS program which was co-sponsored by the regional agencies of ABAG, Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) and Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC). These regional agencies are the foundation of the region's first Sustainable Communities Strategy.