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LIVABILITY AND SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES – TAKING ACTION FOR A CLEAN ENERGY FUTURE
Reconnecting America Participates in White House briefing

FTA LIVABLE COMMUNITIES WEBSITE
Federal site links to many Reconnecting America resources for the development of sustainable communities, affordable housing and transit-oriented development

TIGER GRANTS FUND WAVE OF TRANSPORTATION INNOVATION
TIGER program demonstrates Administration’s continued commitment to livability, says Reconnecting America CEO John Robert Smith

Best Practices 
Legal Handbook For The New Starts Process
Overview of the FTA’s New Starts project development process and the legal issues associated with it · PDF

Moving Toward Implementation: An Examination Of The Organizational And Political Structures Of Transit-Oriented Development
Explores the costs and impacts of Transit Oriented Development and addresses the rationale for designing transit-oriented neighborhoods · PDF

Overlooked Density: Rethinking Transportation Options in Suburbia
The potential exists to create more integrated, sustainable, and multi-modal development in suburbia, by capitalizing on existing suburban multifamily development densities and locations. · PDF

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MAKING THE TWIN CITIES MORE WALKABLE
New CTOD report provides methodology for assessing and boosting the walkability of a place

CAPTURING THE VALUE OF TRANSIT
New report by Center for Transit-Oriented Development released

FINANCING TRANSIT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT
Policy Options and Strategies in the San Francisco Bay Area

Los Angeles: El Monte Still in Spotlight

Pasadena Star News

State and local elected leaders have for years championed a $1.2 billion Titan Group development that would bring homes and retail shops around the city's bus terminal.  And many of them also have received money from the developer's CEO John Leung, who has since resigned his post. The resignation came after El Monte police announced one week ago that Leung and business partner Jean Lang were under investigation in a fraud and embezzlement case....

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Posted June 30, 2009

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