On May 14, 2013 the Marin County Community Development Agency wrote a response to the Plan Bay Area Draft Environmental Review (DEIR) and discussed the five potential regional approaches to future housing, transportation and climate change.
The five approaches include the Environment, Equity and Jobs Scenario (Alternative 5) which requires that the state enact a Vehicles Mileage Tax. This tax would require all Bay Area residents to have a device installed in their cars that tracked miles traveled and taxed those miles in order to create funding for what appear to be transportation and housing development. This was first discussed in July of 2012.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/18/bay-area-vehicle-miles-traveled...
It could cost up to a dime per mile during peak travel periods and as little as a penny per mile during off peak hours. It penalizes Bay Area Residents for being in cars.
The link to an article on VMT suggests that the federal government said no to such a tax and yet in the Marin County report on Plan Bay Area this tax is linked to Alternative 5, which is described as Environmentally Superior by Marin County's Community Development Agency.
What do you think?
