Lakeland: Planning Commission Rejects TOD Changes
The Ledger
The Polk County Planning Commission gave county planners a rare rebuff on a major growth plan change Monday, voting 4-2 to recommend denial for three of the five proposed amendments to the plan....
(March 10, 2010)
Blogosphere: Local Lesson in Transit Orientation
NRDC Switchboard
Several weeks ago, I ran a post making the case that transit-oriented development requires more than just transit and development. As the phrase implies, it also requires orientation: the development must relate to and be convenient to the transit....
(March 9, 2010)
National: Dodd Promises Support for Smart Growth
Hartford Courant
Acknowledging that he's running short on time, U.S. Sen. Christopher Dodd on Monday promised that he'll step up his work for a law to promote networks of affordable housing and mass transit....
(March 9, 2010)
Utah: State Could Pass TOD Bill
Standard Examiner
A bill on Capitol Hill is aiming to make it easier for Utah Transit Authority to develop transit-oriented communities near its rail stations. Senate Bill 272, sponsored by Sen. Jerry Stevenson, R-Layton, allows a transit agency to subordinate properties to development companies that will build transit-oriented developments on the properties....
(March 8, 2010)
Blogosphere: Demolishing Density in Detroit
Grist
So it's come to this: Unable to provide basic services for all of his constituents, Detroit mayor Dave Bing is drafting plans starve his city down to a manageable size. Using proprietary data and a survey released by Data Driven Detroit, Bing and his staff will pick "winners and losers" amongst the city's neighborhoods and seek to resettle residents from the losers, those deemed most unlivable....
(March 8, 2010)
Utah: Framington Gets HUD Funding for TOD
A $36 million transit-oriented development adjacent to Station Park has been approved for funding through a Housing and Urban Development program, says one of the project's planners. Ernest Willmore, a principal with Willmore Development, told city officials he has received an invitation letter from HUD providing funding to facilitate the construction of Park Lane Village, a 324-unit apartment development at approximately 500 North and 1000 West...
(March 8, 2010)
National: Big Ideas for Midsize Cities
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
In the thick of Pittsburgh's first massive snowstorm last month, mayors from seven Midwest cities bravely made their way here Feb. 10 for the Mayors' Institute on City Design, hosted by the Remaking Cities Institute of Carnegie Mellon University...
(March 8, 2010)
Los Angeles: Near Freeway TOD, Black Lungs
Los Angeles Weekly
On a recent afternoon in the Eastside neighborhood of Lincoln Heights, Fay Green stands in the hallway of her apartment complex, which sits just feet above the bumper-to-bumper traffic of the I-5 freeway....
(March 8, 2010)
Oakland: Resident Growth vs Industrial Preservation
Wall Street Journal
Meanwhile, across the bay, Oakland's doing a bit of soul-searching on downtrodden West Oakland, and thinks it may want to revitalize the area as a clean-tech and manufacturing/industrial hub....
(March 5, 2010)
Blogosphere: The Great TOD Swindle
Fog City Journal
Over the past ten years, The San Francisco Department of City Planning has rezoned much of the east side of San Francisco for greater densities of market rate housing based on the theory of Transit Oriented Development:...
(March 5, 2010)
