The Urban Land Institute San Francisco report "10 Strategies for Attracting Investment Near Transit" has been added to the Resource Center best practices database. The 2011 report compiles five years experience from the ULI San Francisco TOD MarketPlace program.

The January 2007  "Gentrification Trends in New Transit Oriented Communities: Evidence from Fourteen Cities that Expanded and Built Rail Transit Systems" has been added to the Resource Center best practices database.

We have piles of documents our researchers have come across that merit inclusion in our Best Practices database. For the next week or so we'll be adding at least one a day.  After each report is uploaded, we'll post a short explanation here.

Reconnecting America and its partners in the Center for Transit-Oriented Development are out at Rail~Volution in Washington, DC, Oct. 16-Oct. 19.  A list of their workshops and seminars is here.

The U.S. PIRG Education Fund has released "Tax-Increment Financing: The Need for Increased Transparency and Accountability in Local Economic Development Subsidies," a research report exloring the pitfalls of tax-increment financing used by cities to fund community development.

The Denver region is currently embarking on one of the most ambitious and extensive fixed-guideway transit expansions in the country. Other regions are watching closely to see how the network gets built out and if development patterns reorient themselves around new transit stations, hoping to emulate our success. The region’s cities and counties have been busy preparing land use plans for new stations over the past few years, yet so far most remain long-term visions, lying in wait until stations open or developers line up to build. There are also concerns that transit-oriented development will not benefit the populations which need it most—low-income households and communities of color--which typically spend a greater percentage of income on housing and transportation.

Several papers that seek to measure the impact of transit on home values have been added to the best practices Research Aricles.

The LISC Green Development Center, in partnership with TransForm, will hold a free webinar Sept. 28 at 2pm EDT that explores the new GreenTRIP certification program. Register here.