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Los Angeles Equity Atlas

With a $40 billion voter-approved transit investment being deployed over the next 20 years, the Los Angeles County transit system expansion will add 102 miles of rail transit and almost 100 new...

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Transit-Oriented Development Typology Strategy for Allegheny County

Cities and regions from coast to coast are pursuing transit-oriented development (TOD) strategies as a way to achieve many goals, including increased economic competitiveness through improved quality...

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Moving To Work In The Bay Area

Low-income workers face multiple barriers to advancementMoving to Work examines the critical role of transit - as well as development clustered around transit (TOD) - in linking low-income communities...

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A Station Area Typology of Economic Opportunity: A Guide to Better Connecting...

IntroductionMost of the emphasis to date on TOD has been around residential development – building compact, mixed-use, mixed-income housing near transit, with shops and services nearby and a variety of...

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Enhancing Economic Opportunity through Transit: Lessons Learned from Denver’s...

IntroductionThe Denver region is currently embarking on one of the most ambitious and extensive investments in new rail and bus service in the United States. In less than a decade, the $7.8 billion...

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4th And King Street Railyards, Final Summary Memo

Report websiteDear Interested 4th & King Railyards StakeholderThe Planning Department is pleased to send you the attached 41h/King Railyards Final Summary Memo. The overarching purposes of the...

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Olde Town Arvada TOD Request For Qualifications

(Report website)Executive SummaryThe future Olde Town Station (the Station), scheduled to open in 2016, will be located on RTD’s Gold Line, a fully-funded and under-construction electric commuter...

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Infrastructure Financing Options for Transit-Oriented Development

Report websiteExecutive SummaryMetropolitan areas form economic regions that benefit from passenger rail systems. Communities have learned that the benefits of public transport can be enhanced when...

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Transit-Oriented Development Typology Stratedgy for Allegheny County

Cities and regions from coast to coast are pursuing transit-oriented development (TOD) strategies as a way to achieve many goals, including increased economic competitiveness through improved quality...

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Creating Equitable, Healthy, And Sustainable Communities: Strategies for...

Report websiteExecutive SummaryCommunities across the country are integrating smart growth, environmental justice, and equitable development approaches to design and build healthy, sustainable, and...

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Encouraging Public Transportation Through Effective Land Use Actions

Introduction This document is a companion to Metro's Transportation Service Guidelines, which describes the conditions for establishing and evaluating new and existing transportation services, and the...

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Ahwahnee Principles for Resource-Efficient Communities

The Ahwahnee Principles for Resource-Efficient Communities, written in 1991 by the Local Government Commission, paved the way for the Smart Growth movement and New Urbanism. These principles provide a...

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Transit-Supportive Land Use Planning Guidelines

This document contains a set of guidelines which show how all forms of urban development and redevelopment can be made more accessible by public transit. The guidelines are a distillation of...

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Transit Friendly Design Guide

The Transit Friendly Design Guide flows from the Calgary Transportation Plan 1995 and the Sustainable Suburbs Study. It has been developed with the help of community stakeholders to describe how...

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Transit-Oriented Development in San Diego County: Incrementally Implementing...

Abstract While transit-oriented development (TOD) has become an increasingly popular planning idea, very few studies have examined how localities plan for and implement transit-oriented projects. This...

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Seattle Station Area Planning: Summary of Developer Focus Groups

To help craft policies that will support transit-oriented development around light railstations, the City of Seattle’s consultant team conducted small group interviews over thecourse of a day with...

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Measuring the Success of Transit-Oriented Development: Retail Market Dynamics...

Abstract Transit-oriented development (TOD) has become the dominant urban growth planning paradigm in the United States. Yet scant evidence has been proffered to indicate that it will produce...

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Mixed Use Zoning & Streets Standards: Executive Summary of the Diagnosis of...

Colorado Springs retained Clarion Associates, teamed with Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership, LSA Associates, and ThermoRetec, to help the city implement the Comprehensive Plan’s vision of mixed-use...

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Statewide Transit-Oriented Development Study: Factors for Success in California

Provides a state-of-the-practice review of TOD and outlines strategies to encourage broader implementation

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How to Make Transit-Oriented Development Work

Instead of branding anything that is built near transit a successful TOD, this report suggests that projects should be judged against specific desired outcomes

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