Chapter 4: Infrastructure
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Improve Efficiency of State Infrastructure Programs
- INF01 Use of Few Models for Project Delivery Results in Missed Opportunities for Lowering Cost and Speeding Delivery
- INF02 Adopt Performance and Warranty Specifications to Improve the Quality of Highway Construction
- INF03 The State is not Taking Advantage of all Opportunities to Reduce the Cost of Construction Contracts
- INF04 Performance Measures Are Needed in Traffic Operations
- INF05 Need for High-Occupancy/Toll Facilities to Reduce Traffic Congestion and Generate Revenue to Cover Project Costs
- INF06 High-Performance Building Design
- INF07 The State Needs to Restructure the Administration over the State Water Project
- INF08 CALFED Bay-Delta Program is Not Functioning Efficiently
- INF09 California Needs Strong Water Policy
Save Taxpayer Infrastructure Dollars
- INF10 Reduce the State’s Leasing Costs
- INF11 Tapping Surplus Property Assets
- INF12 Improve Efficiency of Extra Enforcement Program in Highway Work Zones with Fewer Resources
- INF13 The State Owns Several Routes that it Should Relinquish to Local Agencies
- INF14 Reduce Telecommunications Costs by Modifying Cost Monitoring and Auditing Processes
- INF15 Revenues for Transportation Projects are Increasingly Inadequate to Fund Needed Improvements
- INF16 Federal Funding for California Highways Falls Short
Management of State Infrastructure Programs
- INF17 Integrate the State’s Infrastructure Research and Development Programs
- INF18 Consolidate and Coordinate State Infrastructure Planning and Programming
- INF19 Better Management Needed For California’s Real Estate Assets
- INF20 Deteriorating Highway Quality is Costly for Taxpayers
- INF21 Supply of Affordable Multi-Family Housing is Inadequate
- INF22 Infrastructure Siting for Energy Facilities is Fractured and Inefficient
- INF23 Energy Conservation, Efficiency have not Achieved Full Potential
- INF24 Transportation Hampered by Unhealthy Fuel Market
- INF25 Consolidate the Ratepayer Advocacy and Public Participation Programs at the Public Utilities Commission
- INF26 Building Standards Adoption Reform
- INF27 Shift Responsibility for Railroad Safety at Roadway Crossings to Caltrans
- INF28 Water, Parks and Wildlife Bond Implementation is Inefficient
- INF29 Flood Disaster Avoidance
- INF30 Release State Departments from the Real Estate Services Monopoly
- INF31 One-Stop Shop for School Facility Approval
- INF32 Management of the Department of Transportation’s Projects Needs to Improve
- INF33 Improve School Facility Standards
- INF34 Create a Mechanism for Flexible, Reliable School Facility Finance
- INF35 Early Integration of Infrastructure and Resource Planning Necessary
- INF36 Infrastructure is Necessary for Economic Development
- INF37 Streamline the Environmental Review Process to Discourage Sprawl and Revitalize Older Developed Urban Areas
- INF38 Lengthy Hospital Construction Approvals are Impacting Patient Care