Brief

The Department of Transportation submitted a proposal to implement the Transformative Climate Communities Program in the Rancho San Pedro community, with a focus on mobility wallets—a tool that consolidates transit payment and access across multiple transportation modes. The file was referred to the Transportation Committee on September 10 and is scheduled for committee discussion on September 16, 2026. This appears to be a grant implementation matter requiring council approval to move forward.

Full summary

LADOT is asking the City Council to authorize it to apply for up to $5,014,000 in state Transformative Climate Communities (TCC) Round 6 grant funds, partnering with the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA) as a co-applicant. HACLA would serve as the lead applicant, with a total grant request of $27,500,000 to fund a portfolio of climate and quality-of-life improvements at the Rancho San Pedro affordable housing development in San Pedro — a community where over 90 percent of residents earn at or below 30 percent of the Area Median Income and the majority are people of color. LADOT's $5,014,000 share would fund two specific transportation components. The first is a Mobility Wallet program providing up to 707 Rancho San Pedro households with $3,000 each over two years, usable for public transit, bike-share, rideshare, or other transportation modes of their choosing. LADOT is already running a similar pilot in South LA funded by a state air resources board grant, and an evaluation by UCLA and UC Davis found that the flexible subsidy model improves transportation access and quality of life for low-income residents. A countywide Mobility Wallet program launched in 2025 drew more than 50,000 applicants, signaling strong public demand. The second component would use TCC funds to partially subsidize four years of operating costs for Commuter Express Route 142, an express bus connecting San Pedro to Long Beach that LADOT has already committed to rerouting to directly serve the One San Pedro Phase II housing project. The city's leverage funding — required to match at least 50 percent of the grant request — would come from $1,007,000 in Measure M funds for the Mobility Wallet component and $1,500,000 in existing Proposition A transit operations funds for the bus route subsidy. There is no General Fund impact. If the grant is awarded, implementation would run from Summer 2027 through Summer 2033, and LADOT would return to Council to seek authority to execute a formal agreement with the state and an MOU with HACLA. The report was submitted by LADOT General Manager Laura Rubio-Cornejo on September 4, 2026, referred to the Transportation Committee on September 10, 2026, and remains pending there. No committee action or Council vote has taken place. This is the latest in a series of TCC partnerships between LADOT and HACLA dating to Round 1, when the two agencies collaborated on the Watts Rising Collaborative.

Activity (3)

• 2026-09-11 Transportation Committee scheduled item for committee meeting on September 16, 2026.
• 2026-09-10 Department of Transportation document(s) referred to Transportation Committee.
• 2026-09-09 Document submitted by Department of Transportation, dated September 4, 2026.

Documents (1)

• 2026-09-04 Report from Department of Transportation · report