Twin Cities TOD Toolkit

The Twin Cities region has a tremendous opportunity to use existing and planned transit to create strong, livable neighborhoods with easily accessible connections to regional employment, educational, and recreational activities. Understanding the various elements, players and opportunities surrounding successful transit-oriented development (TOD) can be a challenge. The Twin Cities TOD Toolkit takes lessons learned from the Hiawatha Corridor and other transit projects around the country to provide technical assistance and information for people interested in the ways in which transit-oriented development can help the Twin Cities region shape growth.

What is It?

The TOD Toolkit is a collection of materials that can be used together to provide an overview of the central issues, definitions, and policy recommendations that encompass successful TOD from the regional to the neighborhood level. The TOD Toolkit includes such general resources as a map of proposed key transit corridors including light rail, commuter rail and express bus service; to a links to regional and national resources on TOD and detailed presentations focused on efforts to date in the Twin Cities to develop TOD projects.

How to Use It?

The TOD Toolkit is organized into four major categories: general TOD materials, regional opportunities and issues, corridor-scale overviews of Hiawatha, Central and Northstar corridors, and a spotlight on issues of importance at the neighborhood or station area scale. The materials are designed to be used individually or as a comprehensive basic TOD curriculum, with text included to help guide potential presenters. For most topic areas, the TOD Toolkit includes a powerpoint presentation and a 2-page summary that can be reprinted and used has handouts. Slides from any PowerPoint presentation can be copied and inserted into other presentations