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Marjorie Blackwell
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Media Advisory

For Release: July 23, 2001

WHAT:

Two press conferences to inaugurate the Metropolitan Transportation Commission's Housing Incentive Program (HIP), which represents a major step in MTC's efforts to link transportation and land use.

HIP encourages the location of compact housing near transit by providing local jurisdictions with funding for community-based transportation projects. It is part of a larger MTC program — Transportation for Livable Communities — which offers planning and capital grants for improvements to streetscapes, bicycle and pedestrian facilities, and the like. Fifteen cities around the region are receiving grants in the first funding cycle of the Housing Incentive Program.

WHEN: Wednesday, July 25, 2001

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VALLEJO PRESS CONFERENCE — at the site of the planned Sereno Transit Village project

WHERE: Sereno Avenue, near Sonoma Boulevard (see next page for directions)

TIME: 1:30 p.m.

WHO:

James P. Spering, Mayor, Suisun City, and MTC Commissioner

Anthony J. Intintoli Jr., Mayor, Vallejo

Dan Donahue, Member, Solano Transportation Authority, and City Councilmember, Vallejo

James Buckley, Executive Director, Citizens Housing Corporation

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DUBLIN PRESS CONFERENCE — at the site of the planned Dublin Transit Center project

WHERE: Southwest corner of Dublin and DeMarcus boulevards, near the Dublin/Pleasanton BART station (see next page for directions)

TIME: 2:30 p.m.

WHO:

Tom Torlakson, State Senator

Lynne Leach, Assemblymember

Scott Haggerty, Supervisor, Alameda County, and MTC Commissioner

Guy S. Houston, Mayor, Dublin

Doug Shoemaker, Policy Director, Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California

The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) is the transportation planning, financing and coordinating agency for the nine-county Bay Area.


DIRECTIONS TO VALLEJO PRESS CONFERENCE:
Coming from San Francisco/Oakland, take Interstate 80 east to the Sonoma Boulevard/State Route 29 exit. Follow Sonoma Boulevard to the corner of Sereno Avenue (look for the Mervyn's sign), and turn right onto Sereno. The press conference site will be to your left, in the rear parking lot of Vallejo Furniture Galleries, across the street from Gold's Gym.

DIRECTIONS TO DUBLIN PRESS CONFERENCE:
Coming from San Francisco/Oakland, take Interstate 580 east to the Hacienda Drive exit. Follow Hacienda Drive north to Dublin Boulevard and turn left. Go through the DeMarcus Boulevard intersection, and park just beyond it in the striped area along the north side of Dublin Boulevard. The press conference site will be across Dublin Boulevard, in the empty field.

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