The "Environmental Justice Tools for Local Planning" session of SCAG's Toolbox Tuesday focused on resources to incorporate environmental justice in local planning to meet the state of California’s SB 1000 requirements to incorporate environmental justice elements (or a related set of goals, policies and actions) in general plans.

The session featured the SB 1000 Equity Toolkit developed by the San Bernardino County Transportation Authority and the San Bernardino Council of Governments. The session covered the new toolkit’s free general plan tools, such as interactive maps, data dashboards and model environmental justice policy language. The toolkit’s developers, Mairany Anaya from SBCTA and Juan Reynoso from Raimi + Associates, provided an overview of the SB 1000 Equity Toolkit and a demonstration of how jurisdictions in San Bernardino County, and beyond, can use the tools.

SCAG also shared the region’s progress toward SB 1000 and additional resources in the Equity Resources for Action Toolkit.