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renewed measure m - property evaluation and funding

MacPhersonThe Renewed Measure M mitigation funding includes three components: acquisition, restoration, and management. Over the summer of 2008, the Department of Fish and Game, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and Environmental Oversight Committee (EOC) Vice Chair Schlotterbeck developed the draft mitigation criteria that would guide this mitigation process. The criteria were approved in September 2008 by the EOC, T2020 Committee, and full OCTA board.

Download a copy of the evaluation criteria per type:

OCTA, through a recommendation from the EOC, adopted the Green Vision Map as the initial inventory for acquisition and restoration opportunities. Renewed Measure M's mitigation program built upon this inventory and solicited projects and restoration sites from the public.

After significant outreach to build the inventory, an Evaluation Team (consisting ofthe California Department of Fish and Game, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Army Corps of Engineers, OCTA, and Caltrans) grouped all of the acquisition properties and restoration sites into four groupings.

  • Group 1 - High quality habitat, heterogeneous habitat, very good connectivity/contiguity opportunities, larger sized properties, aligns with impacted habitats, contains covered
    species
  • Group 2 - Good quality habitat, homogeneous habitat, good connectivity/contiguity opportunities, medium sized properties, contain some covered species
  • Group 3 - Lower quality habitat, lower connectivity/contiguity potential, smaller properties, highly disturbed
  • Group 4 - Typically very small habitat, highly disturbed, some do not align with freeway habitats

Go to the Measure M Projects page to see what acquisition sites and restoration sites are under consideration or have been funded.

 

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