Opportunities for equitable transit-oriented development
November 17, 2008|Reconnecting America and Somerville Community Corp. study for city of Somerville
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Somerville: Reconnecting America worked with the Somerville Community Corporation to identify needs and opportunities for equitable transit-oriented development in the City of Somerville, with a focus on the planned extension of the Green Line. The report highlights demographic and real estate trends, and outlines a series of strategies for achieving mixed-income TOD.
Financing Transit-Oriented Development
November 17, 2008
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The Center for Transit-Oriented Development prepared this white paper to help the Metropolitan Transportation Commission consider alternative methods for providing regional funding for transit-oriented development in the San Francisco Bay Area. The report outlines the need for such a funding source, case examples of other Metropolitan Planning Organization programs, and key considerations in implementing a new program targeted to this purpose.
Alternatives to TOD funding
November 17, 2008|Center for Transit-Oriented Development prepares white paper for Metropolitan Transportation Commission
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The Center for Transit-Oriented Development prepared this white paper to help the Metropolitan Transportation Commission consider alternative methods for providing regional funding for transit-oriented development in the San Francisco Bay Area. The report outlines the need for such a funding source, case examples of other Metropolitan Planning Organization programs, and key considerations in implementing a new program targeted to this purpose.
Charlotte’s Rapid Transit System: Leveraging Public Investment To Transform Land Use
October 1, 2008
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Indirect Investment
North Corridor Commuter
Tax Increment Financing
Direct Investment
LYNX Blue Line
Providing land
Providing transit station & infrastructure
Construction of major amenity
Adopted by Council in 1994 to address accelerating growth
Five primary transportation and development corridors
Goals:
Focus growth
Maximize use of public transportation
Encourage redevelopment & reuse of underutilized sites
Discussion Paper On The Evaluation Of Economic Development
October 1, 2008
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Introduction
In the interest of receiving robust public input and comment on the topic, this document is intended to present one possible method for evaluating the potential economic development impacts of projects applying for Federal Transit Administration (FTA) Section 5309 New Starts funds. After receiving feedback on how it might evaluate economic development impacts of New Starts projects , FTA intends to prepare proposed policy guidance at some point in the future that would be published for notice and comment before any particular approach is finalized.
For the purposes of the economic development criterion, FTA defines economic development as the extent to which a proposed New Starts project is likely to contribute to additional, transit-supportive development within the new station areas to be constructed as part of the project. In 2005, FTA initiated a study of the economic development impacts of transit investments with the objective of developing a quantitative measure…
Reconnecting America in the news
September 30, 2008|President CEO Shelley Poticha is interviewed for MassTransit Magazine
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Shelley Poticha, President and CEO of Reconnecting America, is featured in an article on MassTransit magazine that profiles transportation professionals.
Here's some of what she had to say:
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“Not only are people ready for change, we actually know what to do. We have been practicing these ideas in communities around the country for years and we hear about them at our sustainability conferences, all of the innovations that are starting to take place where developers are recognizing that there is a tremendous shift in the marketplace.”
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“We created the Center for Transit-Oriented Development because what we were finding was that each agency had to do all of the research themselves about what is happening in transit-oriented development. We basically created a clearinghouse of information that practitioners can link into about whatever stage of that process they are in.”
“When we started five years ago…
Transit-Oriented Development
September 25, 2008|Sam Zimbabwe
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A presentation to the APA Florida Chapter, Transit-Oriented Development Workshop, September 4, 2008, by Sam Zimbabwe, LEED AP, Technical Assistance Director, Reconnecting America
Equity and Transit-Oriented Development
September 25, 2008|Sam Zimmerman-Bergman
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Presentation by Sam Zimmerman-Bergman, Project Director, Reconnecting America, to the Good Jobs First National Conference, May 8, 2008
Encouraging transit-oriented development
September 25, 2008|Tri-State Transportation Campaign announces grant program
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The Tri-State Transportation Campaign, supported by the One Region Fund, a partnership of private funders from Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey, has created a TOD Grant Program to support initiatives in municipalities that are interested in retail, mixed-income housing and open space that foster walkable, compact and vibrant communities centered within one-quarter to one-half mile of a transit stop. The Tri-State Transportation Campaign is a non-profit advocacy and policy organization working for a
more balanced, equitable, and environmentally friendly transportation system in New York, New Jersey,
and Connecticut.
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Trends favor renewed interest in transit-oriented development
September 19, 2008|Multi-Housing World Conference in Denver takes on Transit-Oriented Development
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Senior editor Eugene Gilligan at Commercial Property News reports that a panel at the Multi-Housing World Conference in Denver took up the topic of transit-oriented development Sept. 19, concluding that a number of factors -- changing tastes, gas prices and commute woes -- are forcing developers to turn away from sprawl and focus instead on sustainability and creating livable neighborhoods.
With mass transit gaining ground even in car-centric Los Angeles and sustainability a key selling point for many projects, builders are finding new impetus to work through the resistance to denser occupancy rates and unnecessary parking space requirements that typically work against transit-oriented developments.
Panel: Bright Future for Transit-Oriented M-F Developments
