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Regional Housing Needs Allocation As described above, the eight -year RHNA must be consistent with the SCS. Planning for affordable housing in the Bay Area is one of the essential tasks of sustainable development. In the SCS, this task becomes integrated with the regional land use strategy, the development of complete communities, and a sustainable transportation system. Regional agencies will take input from local jurisdictions for the adoption of the RHNA methodology by September 2011. The final housing numbers for the region will be issued by the State Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) by September 2011. The Draft RHNA will be released by spring 2012. ABAG will adopt the Final RHNA by the end of summer 2012. Local governments will address the next round of RHNA in their next Housing Element update. It is anticipated that the next Housing Element (after the one we are currently preparing) will need to be completed by September 10, 2014 ( —it is required to be adopted 18 months after the adoption of the SCS —) for an 8 year planning period extending from 2015 to 2022. Additional details about RHNA's procedural requirements (e.g. appeals, revisions and transfers) and related substantive issues (e.g. housing by income category and formation of subregions) will be described in a future separate document. Regional Transportation Plan The SCS is intended to create an explicit link between the land use choices and the transportation investments. MTC and ABAG's commitment to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and provision of housing for all income levels translates into an alignment of the development of places committed to these goals and transportation, infrastructure and housing funding. MTC's detailed assessment of local and County transportation projects will be completed by July /August 2011. ABAG and MTC anticipate the project assessments will be an essential part of the development of alternative scenarios for the SCS. The RTP will be analyzed through 2012 and released for review by the end of 2012. ABAG will approve the SCS by March 2013. MTC will adopt the final RTP and SCS by April 2013. Regional agencies will prepare one Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for both the SCS and the RTP. This EIR might assist local jurisdictions in streamlining the environmental review process for some of the projects that are consistent with the SCS. DISCUSSION The IVS for the SCS is a first -cut proposal that identifies the areas where ABAG anticipates growth in the region. Under the assumptions of the IVS, the Bay Area is anticipated to grow by over two million people, from about 7,350,000 today to about 9,430,000 by the year 2035. This population growth would require around 902,000 new housing units. The IVS proposes where these new units might be accommodated. The IVS accommodates 97 percent of new households within the existing urban footprint. Among Bay Area counties, ABAG assigned the lion's share of growth to Santa Clara, Alameda, and Contra Costa, which absorb a little over two - thirds of the Page 4 of 7