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Proposed guidelines released last week for Los Angeles’ affordable housing incentive program include a tiered typology based on the distance to a transit stop and the type of transit service provided. TOD typologies are a helpful way to determine the different needs of different station areas.
This week, the town of Chapel Hill, NC considered development suggestions for 18 stations along its new 17-mile light rail line. The planning report was the result of feedback from community workshops and supported by a federal grant from the FTA. Several resources are available in the TODresources.org library to help with station area and corridor planning specifically.
In 2007, the City of Charlotte, NC opened its Lynx light rail line and this week, the Charlotte Business Journal took a look at what’s happening along the line 10 years later. In short: increased development of offices and housing in the South End. So this week we’re featuring two items from TODresources.org that take a look at development along rail corridors, including in Charlotte.
What impact could a potential $1 trillion infrastructure package have on transit-oriented development? How can TOD staff, real estate developers, and local elected leaders work together to improve infrastructure, create jobs, and rebuild neighborhoods for the future?
This week we’re featuring two resources that get more specific on details related to financing for housing or infrastructure in TOD.
This week came new research from Georgia Tech looking at the value of homes near Atlanta’s BeltLine project. Atlanta is planning to build 22 miles of streetcar line parallel to the popular bike and walking trail, and housing prices near the project are rising faster than the rest of the city.
In this week’s edition we take a look at upzoning—a strategy that allows for higher density near transit stations. We’re highlighting this because Seattle, WA moved forward with plans to upzone its University District this week.
Introducing a new weekly newsletter all about the best practices in transit-oriented development.
TODresources.org is home to a trove of information about equitable transit-oriented development projects from across the country. These resources showcase the best, most innovate approaches to TOD nationwide. We want to better highlight those strategies and help more people across the country use them in the year to come.
Five communities working to support development around transit projects will get a big boost this year thanks to technical assistance from the Federal Transit Administration (FTA), in partnership with Smart Growth America.
The National Public Transportation/Transit-Oriented Development Technical Assistance Initiative is a four-year project of FTA in partnership with Smart Growth America that helps communities across the country build equitable, compact, mixed-use development around transit stations or along transit corridors, with a focus on development in economically disadvantaged areas.
An underserved Kansas City neighborhood is receiving assistance from the Federal Transit Administration to attract new development around a proposed transit line and raise the neighborhood’s economic fortunes. In the last five to ten years, Kansas City’s downtown has experienced an economic rebound due in part to millions invested in transit projects like the KC Streetcar, opened … Continued