Regional Data Platform
What is the Regional Data Platform?
As one of SCAG’s largest and most transformative initiatives to date, and a signature element of SCAG’s Future Communities Initiative established in 2017, the Regional Data Platform (RDP) is a revolutionary system for collaborative data sharing and planning designed to facilitate better planning at all levels – from cities and counties of all sizes up to the region as a whole.
SoCal Greenprint
SCAG is in the process of developing an innovative online regional mapping tool known as the SoCal Greenprint. This will be a strategic conservation mapping tool that highlights the benefits of natural lands, waters, and agricultural lands, including access to parks and trails, habitat protection and connectivity, clean water, clean air, food production, and increased resilience to climate change.
The goals of the SoCal Greenprint are to protect, restore, and enhance natural lands, public greenspace, working lands, and water resources and the benefits they provide to people and nature throughout the SCAG region. It will support planners, conservation practitioners, developers, infrastructure agencies, and other stakeholders in integrating the protection of natural and agricultural resources into land use and infrastructure plans and avoid potential litigation by identifying and assessing environmental issues early in the planning process.
To ensure that data provided through the tool aligns with SCAG’s Regional Advance Mitigation Program (RAMP) Policy Framework and fulfillment of the Connect SoCal PEIR mitigation measures, establishment of the SoCal Greenprint tool will adhere to data policies, governance standards, user guidelines, data selection criteria, and data parameters that will be developed by staff with input and consultation from a Technical Advisory Committee and presented to the Energy & Environment Committee (EEC) and the Regional Council for their review and approval. The Greenprint Technical Advisory Committee will be comprised of at least one representative from: each county transportation commission in the SCAG region, Caltrans, each county government in the SCAG region, the City of Los Angeles, two city governments within each county in the SCAG region, as well as a representative from the environmental community with RAMP experience, and a representative from the business community. This Technical Advisory Committee shall be open to the public and seek input from the development community, non-governmental conservation groups, regional conservation agencies, researchers, and other stakeholders.
Aerial Imagery Consortium
Given the important role geospatial data has in making planning decisions, SCAG is working with a number of local and regional agencies to form a purchasing co-operative that would obtain a variety of high quality aerial imagery at a reduced, shared cost.