Transit Oriented Development
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Mayor Breaks Ground on Westlake/MacArthur Park Development…But Is It TOD?
The good news is that there are 90 affordable housing units putting it miles ahead of the W and there are plans for retail on the ground level. A level of skepticism should be involved on the promises of on-street development can be excused because some of the developers are the same ones that were involved with the Hollywood and Western TOD, which currently has a fifty percent vacancy rate a full five years after the development opened.
April 14, 2010
The Urban Land Institute Takes Its Look at L.A.’s T.O.D.
One thing that the National non-profit the Urban Land Institute and Streetsblog have in common is we both have strong views about Transit Oriented Development. Another thing we have in common? We both think the state of transit oriented planning in Los Angeles could really use improvement.
April 7, 2010
National TOD Organization Offers a Hand to Los Angeles
Yesterday, the Center for Transit Oriented Development, the leading national non-profit dealing with T.O.D. issues, released a report full of recommendations for Los Angeles as the local transit system grows in the coming years. The study looks at 71 existing and under construction station areas in Los Angeles, not the stations that will be built because of Measure R, and provides guidelines and a tool box to help insure that the future projects do a better job of integrating and supporting the existing community.
April 1, 2010
TAD or TOD? A Look at the W at Hollywood and Vine
One of my favorite transportation rhetorical devices has always been the relationship between Transit Oriented Development, or TOD, and its evil brother, Transit Adjacent Development, TAD. TAD breaks all the rules that make TOD work, but because they can look similar they often get confused. Unfortunately, TAD can give TOD a bad name.
March 31, 2010
Fight Brewing Between Council and Mayor Over Street Furniture Funds
With all the bleak news about the City of Los Angeles' budget woes, and the ridiculously poor state of the same city's Transit Oriented Development program; the last thing one might expect to hear out of city hall is a fight over how the city spends its "Street Furniture Revenue Fund." Yesterday, when Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced a veto of Councilman Tony Cardenas' request to use street furniture funds to pay for his office staff, that's exactly what we got.
March 9, 2010
U.S. DOT Previews How New Transit Rules Could Define ‘Livability’
When the Obama administration announced an ambitious revamp of transit funding rules to, as the Transportation Secretary put it, “take livability into account,” urban planners and transit advocates alike were pleased — but also uncertain. Baltimore’s rail network, with the proposed new Red Line — which could get a boost from the U.S. DOT’s livability … Continued
January 21, 2010
Does Transit-Oriented Development Work Even Without Transit?
Yes, says urban planner Neil Payton. From his guest column today on Reconnecting America's blog:
January 8, 2010
New Study Quantifies High Personal Costs of Building CA Cities for Cars
(editor's note: The section with area specific data for Southern California isn't done yet. When it is, we'll have a post specific to our region. In the meantime, this statewide article prepared by Matthew Roth in San Francisco is a great read.)
November 20, 2009
The Power of Transit-Oriented Development
Back in the late 1970s, when Washington's Metrorail system first
began operating in Arlington County, Virginia, the future of Arlington
and other old, inner suburbs was far from certain. Across the Potomac,
the District of Columbia was suffering from depopulation, rapidly
rising crime rates, and serious fiscal difficulties.
August 26, 2009
Eyes on the Street: Transit Adjacent Development
When people around the country discuss "transit oriented development" they describe tall buildings surrounding a bus or train station that are designed to discourage car commuting. In its definition of T.O.D., Streetswiki even states:
May 13, 2009