About Ventura:

• Population: 106,433 (2010)
• Location: Ventura County
• Area: 32.25 square miles
• Disadvantaged community:Westside Ventura
• Poverty rate: 11.2%
• Median household income: $72,859
• Language other than English spoken at home: 27.4%

BOOST Activities:

• Provide education and consultation to inform the city’s public engagement approach for upcoming planning efforts, which may include General Plan Update, Local Coastal Plan and/or Climate Action and Resilience Plan
• Provide grant application support to identify and craft competitive grants for the city’s local planning efforts indirect potable water use project, housing and other climate and resilience projects.
• Conduct research to better understand air quality issues and identify best practices and opportunities to address any disparities. 
• Promote the city’s efforts to become more energy efficient, climate-ready and resilient community. 

BOOST Successes:

ILG helped Ventura develop five grant proposals, which led to more than $1 million in funding to support the city’s comprehensive planning efforts. The funding included a $200,000 grant from the Prop. 84 Wildfire Resiliency and Recovery Planning Grant Program to develop a Climate Action and Resilience Plan, which will help the city prepare, respond and recover from increasing wildfire threats. Through BOOST, ILG connected Ventura with the non-profit advocacy group, CAUSE, which will help inform public engagement efforts through the planning process to ensure voices of vulnerable populations are integrated into these plans.