Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Transit-Oriented Development

Bay Area Advocates Unveil New VMT Reduction Incentive for Developers

By Matthew Roth | Dec 22, 2009 | 6 Comments

Photo: Michael Patrick Among the many strategies to reduce vehicle miles traveled (VMT) and attendant greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from private vehicles, Bay Area smart growth advocate TransForm has developed a new certification called GreenTRIP to encourage architects, developers, and municipal officials to build transit-oriented development and implement transportation demand management (TDM) solutions for future […]

A Message from Copenhagen: Climate Plan Must Include Walkable Urbanism

By Ben Fried | Dec 9, 2009 | No Comments

The energy-saving benefits of transit aren’t limited to the transportation sector. Image: Jonathan Rose Companies via Richard Layman. At a panel discussion yesterday at the Copenhagen climate summit, American policymakers and transit experts delivered a clear message: Walkable urban development must be part of any effective plan to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions. Thanks to […]

Planning Chiefs: Urban Planning Still Hindered by Politics, Past Mistakes

By Michael Rhodes | Nov 6, 2009 | 19 Comments

Over 200 people showed up to hear planning directors speak. Photo: Michael Rhodes City planners have been on the hook for some of the last century’s greatest metropolitan mishaps: urban freeways and "slum clearance," arbitrary minimum parking requirements, and land use laws that have left little room for the mingling of uses. Understandably, today’s planners […]

CNU Transportation Project Raises Bar on Planning for Livable Cities

By Matthew Roth | Nov 5, 2009 | 1 Comment

Photo: npGreenway The Congress for the New Urbanism’s Project for Transportation Reform summit in Portland, Oregon, has brought together transportation engineers, city planners, and transportation reform advocates to share best practice policies for reforming transportation metrics, funding mechanisms, and regional practices that isolate transportation planning from land-use and growth targets. The highlight of the first […]

TOD Stalls as Lenders Continue to Bank on Parking

By Brad Aaron | Oct 16, 2009 | No Comments

Elana linked to this story out of Salt Lake City in the Capitol Hill headline stack this morning, and it’s worth everyone’s full attention. Derek Jensen reports on what may be the biggest impediment to urbanism of them all: the widespread bias of banks against walkable development. Salt Lake City’s new-urbanism epiphany — fervently backed […]

Study Finds Most of SF’s Publicly Assisted Transit-Oriented Housing at Risk

By Michael Rhodes | Oct 12, 2009 | 2 Comments

The 2007 launch of the T-Third Muni Metro line along the eastern waterfront coincided with a development boom. Flickr photo: Schaffner An eye-opening report recently released by AARP , Reconnecting America and the National Housing Trust identifies the Bay Area as a national leader in placing affordable housing near high-frequency transit, but also points out […]

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