Matrix of Priority Implementation Strategies
The conversations held with stakeholders and the public survey responses collected through the Regional Needs Assessment provided an initial set of implementation strategy ideas and established needs and goals for increasing regional resiliency. SJCOG added to this list of strategies to develop 46 implementation strategies total.
To sort through the different strategies, SJCOG identified a set of criteria to compare strategies against one another. These criteria center around the implementation strategy benefits (e.g., effectiveness) and any challenges to implementation (e.g., capital cost), so that SJCOG and its stakeholders can make informed decisions about which strategies to prioritize. SJCOG developed a ranking system by scoring and weighing the different criteria so that each strategy received a final overall score. The table below lists all regional implementation strategies, with a selection of the key criteria used to score them relative to one another, and their final scores. See the Legend for more information on what is represented in each column and the criteria used in scoring. See the Regional Resiliency Implementation Plan and Adaptation Guidance document for more information on this prioritization approach and the full list of criteria used to score each strategy.
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| Identifier | Description |
|---|---|
| ID | Number used to identify implementation strategies |
| Strategy | Description of the regional resilience implementation strategy |
| Score (out of 100%) | The final priority score for the implementation strategy from 0 (lowest) - 100% (highest) |
View Key Criteria
| Strategy | Key Criteria Used to Score Strategies |
|---|---|
| Effectiveness | The overall effectiveness of a strategy in terms of its ability to reduce physical risks or build capacity to address resilience needs. Ranked from Low to High effectiveness. |
| Capital cost | The estimated capital, or upfront cost, of a strategy. Ranked from High to Low cost. |
| O&M cost | The estimated operations and maintenance cost of a strategy once implemented. Ranked from High to Low cost. |
| Ease of local implementation | The relative ease of implementation when compared to other projects. Ranked from Low to High ease of local implementation. |
| Timeframe for implementation | The estimated time it would take to implement a strategy. Ranked from Long-Term to Near-Term timeframe for implementation. |
| GHG reductions | An indication of whether the strategy provides the co-benefit of greenhouse gas reductions. Yes or No. |
| Local environmental benefits | An indication of whether the strategy provides the co-benefit of providing local environmental benefits such as improved air or water quality. Yes or No. |
| Community health and safety benefits | An indication of whether the strategy provides the co-benefit of providing community health and safety benefits, like through reducing risk of heat-related illness. Yes or No. |
| Disadvantaged community benefits | An indication of whether the strategy provides the co-benefit of providing disadvantaged community benefits such as improving access to transportation options in a disadvantaged neighborhood. Yes or No. |
| Improvements to transportation system | An indication of whether the strategy provides the co-benefit of making improvements to the transportation system. An example would be a project that improves a local evacuation route. Yes or No. |
Matrix
| ID | Strategy | Score (out of 100%) |
Effectiveness | Capital Cost | O&M Cost | Ease of local implementation | Timeframe for implementation | GHG reductions | Local environmental benefits | Community health and safety benefits | Disadvantaged community benefits | Improvements to transportation system |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | Create a Regional Climate Collaborative or committee to coordinate and implement responses to climate change. Cross-sector collaboration including public health, community-based organizations (CBOs), Climate Action Corps, and private sector. | 87% | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | Near-term | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| 55 | Develop a Regional Emergency Response Plan which integrates the region's transit operators and their role in a mass evacuation event. | 84% | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | Near-term | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 53 | Conduct a flood adaptation assessment for SR-4 from Stockton west to Contra Costa County flood, considerate of evacuation planning. | 81% | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | Medium-term | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 22 | Continue critical projects in progress by the San Joaquin Area Flood Control Agency (SJAFCA). Advance the Lower San Joaquin River Feasibility Study. | 80% | 1 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | Near-term | No | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| 45 | Develop climate resilience metrics to evaluate 2022 RTP/SCS project list and overall prioritization. | 79% | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | Near-term | No | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| 50 | Conduct a flood adaptation assessment for SR-99 through Lodi, considerate of evacuation planning. | 79% | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | Medium-term | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 51 | Conduct a flood adaptation assessment for South Stockton including roads, transit stops, and rail. | 79% | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | Medium-term | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 49 | Conduct a flood adaptation assessment for Waterloo Road/CA-88, considerate of evacuation planning. | 79% | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | Medium-term | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 32 | Execute a public education campaign to ensure that the broader public understands climate change projections, impacts, and adaptation strategies, and the terminology surrounding these topics. There have been good efforts through the Office of Emergency Services to list information on their website about potential risks. This could be taken a step further with public campaigns or explicit partnerships with organizations. The public education campaign should include information about evacuation prep, the act of evacuating, and returning home. | 77% | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | Medium-term | No | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| 11 | Provide better communication services in emergencies. Communications should be offered in multiple languages and formats (e.g., social media, text alerts, phone calls). | 77% | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | Medium-term | No | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| 37 | Develop back up power strategies to ensure that electric transit can still provide regular service or assist in evacuation when there are outages. | 75% | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | Long-term | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 21 | Continue SJAFCA Mossdale Tract (Reclamation District 17) area adaptation assessment (SJAFCA and DWR already evaluating options). Flooding here could affect I-5, I-205 and potentially SR-120. Includes portions of Lathrop, Manteca, Stockton, and San Joaquin County. | 75% | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | Medium-term | No | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| 48 | Provide comprehensive backup power at Port of Stockton during outages. | 74% | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | Near-term | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| 17 | Update design criteria and guidance for infrastructure projects to address climate change. Including Caltrans Highway Design Manual. | 74% | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | Near-term | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| 40 | Assess flood mitigation for City of Stockton public housing in floodplain. | 74% | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | Medium-term | No | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| 29 | Identify dedicated funding sources are needed to support regional climate change work including implementation of adaptation strategies. Existing funding sources need to be more flexible for adaptation projects. | 73% | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | Long-term | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 20 | Advance SJAFCA Smith Canal Project (currently under construction). | 72% | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | Near-term | No | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| 52 | Conduct a Stockton Wye flood adaptation assessment. | 72% | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | Medium-term | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| 54 | Conduct a BNSF Intermodal Railyard (Stockton) flood adaptation assessment. | 72% | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | Medium-term | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| 4 | Create a free shade tree program. Regional nonprofits (like Promotores Unidas para Educacion Nacional de Tecnologias Sostenibles (PUENTES)) and stakeholders could provide funding for free shade trees for homeowners/business owners to plant trees alongside roadways and sidewalks. Regional nonprofits to administer the program. | 69% | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | Medium-term | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| 33 | Identify and provide outreach funding, such as stipends for volunteers, students, or other professionals to participate in meetings. Providing incentives to contribute will ensure a diverse range of perspectives (not just from subject matter experts and professionals working in the field). | 68% | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | Medium-term | No | No | No | Yes | No |
| 7 | Expand bus routes and hours with increased frequency and reliability, particularly in Disadvantaged Communities such as South Stockton. | 68% | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | Near-term | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 24 | Develop template language to address climate change impacts via local code updates (building code, zoning code, local ordinances) including for design strategies such as green/cool roofs to mitigate Urban Heat Island. | 65% | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | Medium-term | No | No | No | No | No |
| 19 | Implement regionally coordinated levee raising projects to ensure the entire system is high enough for future flows. (Can include coordination with DSC Delta Levee Investment Strategy.) | 64% | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | Long-term | No | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| 3 | Local jurisdictions to plant more trees along roadways and sidewalks, particularly in urban areas such as Stockton and neighborhoods with limited investments in tree canopies like South Stockton. | 63% | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | Medium-term | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 6 | Provide more comfortable, shaded transit stops, especially in Disadvantaged Communities such as South Stockton. | 61% | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | Medium-term | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 1 | Develop template language about climate change impacts and responses for General Plans (for compliance with SB 379). | 60% | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | Near-term | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 35 | Make regional investment in smart grids, microgrids, solar, and/or community power to improve energy reliability. | 56% | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | Near-term | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| 10 | Provide free transit to cooling centers on hot days. | 55% | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | Near-term | No | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| 36 | Keep N95 masks in stock and available as needed for wildfire season - distribute for free to community. | 52% | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | Near-term | No | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| 56 | Create project manager guidance for SCS/RTP project managers to consider climate risks in the planning and design phases of projects identified as vulnerable to one or more climate hazards. | 51% | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | Near-term | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| 23 | Identify the best practices or projects that other cities/counties are conducting in terms of responses to wildfires, evacuations, flood events. | 47% | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | Near-term | No | No | No | No | No |
| 25 | Create one platform or clearinghouse for climate change information and best practices for adaptation. Potential to coordinate with DSC on this. | 47% | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | Near-term | No | No | No | No | No |
| 2 | Develop climate resiliency policy template language. This could go into the 2022 RTP/SCS and be used as template language around climate change by local jurisdictions and partner agencies. | 45% | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | Near-term | No | No | No | No | No |
| 39 | Conduct a flood adaptation assessment for Corral Hallow (including mudslides, erosion, wildfire; evacuation challenges; bridge capacity issues). | 45% | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | Near-term | No | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| 12 | Expand on-demand transit (paratransit). | 35% | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | Medium-term | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 15 | Provide additional Electric Vehicle charging stations across the region. | 32% | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | Long-term | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 8 | Assess designated and "informal" trucking routes that may have disproportionate impacts to neighboring communities. | 30% | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | Medium-term | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| 9 | Deploy a low emissions car share program. | 30% | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | Medium-term | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 14 | Make rail improvements to existing infrastructure (e.g., electrification, grade separation). | 29% | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | Long-term | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 38 | Provide free water for active transportation users. | 27% | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | Near-term | No | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| 13 | Provide more efficient and accessible rail service. Improve connections to rail options like Valley Link, Amtrak, and ACE. | 26% | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | Long-term | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 34 | Provide green business job training. | 26% | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | Near-term | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| 42 | Understand increasing lifecycle pavement costs and evaluate new pavement technologies and designs. | 24% | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | Near-term | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| 47 | Improve landscaping along highways, especially near disadvantaged communities, to provide shade, increase albedo and mitigate Urban Heat Island, reduce noise from traffic, and improve views. Use of drought-tolerant and native landscaping is preferred to reduce water use. | 21% | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | Long-term | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| 43 | Reconfigure bridge piers to reduce restriction of flow. Other bridge improvements to increase freeboard and reduce risk of scour. | 10% | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | Medium-term | No | No | No | No | No |