Transit Oriented Development

Information by State  Print version   Related Information   Sustainable Communities This new initiative outlines six new guiding "livability principles" that will be used to coordinate federal housing, transportation, and environmental protection investments. HUD, DOT, and EPA plan to make planning grants available to metropolitan areas, and create mechanisms to ensure those plans are carried out through localities. more...   Transportation Planning Capacity Building This website is a one-stop clearinghouse for state-of-the-practice transportation planning information and resources. It includes an explanation of the transportation planning process and information on transit oriented development. more...   Fostering Equitable and Sustainable Transit-Oriented Development Briefing papers presented address sustainable TOD and the barriers to achieving it. They were written for a meeting convened by the Center for Transit-Oriented Development (CTOD), Living Cities and the Boston College Institute for Responsible Investment, hosted at the Ford Foundation in February 2009. more...   Fruitvale Transit Village This model project resulted from a broad-based partnership among public, private, and nonprofit organizations working together to revitalize a community using transit oriented development. more... Helpful Tools   Toolkit for Integrating Land Use and Transportation This website offers web-based source of methods, strategies, case studies, and procedures for integrating land use and transportation planning, decision-making, and project implementation. more...   Allocation of Transit Funding This website provides information on projects included in the Federal Transit Administration’s New Starts and Small Starts programs that are part of the Major Capital Investment Grant Program, the Federal government’s primary financial resource for supporting locally planned, implemented, and operated major transit capital projects. more…   Community Wealth Best Practices This website offers information on state-of-the-art strategies for transit oriented development and other democratic, community-based economic development. more...   Puget Sound TOD Workbook Focuses on how local jurisdictions and transit agencies support local land use changes that promote transit-oriented development. more...   MPO Database This site provides links to metropolitan planning agencies that are responsible for transportation planning throughout the United States. more...   Case Studies for TOD A short summary of ten Transit Oriented Development (TOD) tools that are used by communities all across the country. Each tool is featured in a 2-page case study that illustrates how the tools are used and what the expected results were. more...   Tools for Mixed-Income TOD Describes zoning and planning, financing, and joint development and partnership tools, and the application of these tools in California, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Oregon, and Texas. more...   TOD Best Practices Guide This guide has links to resources on the best practices in transit oriented development. more...   Policy Link TOD Toolkit This tool focuses on how to implement TOD in a way that achieves equity goals. more...   Twin Cities TOD Toolkit The TOD Toolkit provides assistance and information to those interested in learning about transit-oriented development and how it can be encouraged in the Twin Cities region. more...   Mixed Income Housing TOD Action Guide This action guide, designed as a tool to help community advocates, practitioners, intermediaries, and jurisdictions, outlines three key steps to comprehensive understanding of the housing needs in a specific transit district and of the range of tools that can be employed to achieve the goals of mixed-income transit oriented development. more...   NGA Growth Toolkit Includes examples of how state, regional, and local governments and planning groups can work with citizens to facilitate joint planning that integrates land use and transportation and encourages transit oriented development. more...

Transit Oriented Development (TOD) is compact, mixed-use development near transit facilities that promotes sustainable communities by providing people of all ages and incomes with improved access to transportation and housing choices, reduced transportation costs that reduce the negative impacts of automobile travel on the environment and the economy. The following examples illustrate how some jurisdictions are using transit oriented development to improve the quality of life in neighborhoods.

Better Coordination of Housing and Transportation

This report outlines strategies developed by FTA and HUD to continue and expand coordination in the area of mixed-income and affordable housing near transit.
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Realizing the Potential: Expanding Housing Near Transit

FTA and HUD funded study examines five case study regions - Boston, Charlotte, Denver, Minneapolis, and Portland to better understand the proactive strategies being undertaken to create and preserve affordable housing near transit.
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Preserving and Promoting Diverse Transit Oriented Development

The report outlines the benefits of mixed-income transit-oriented developments and the challenges to seizing the mixed-income TOD opportunity, and makes a set of practical recommendations to create more mixed-income, mixed-race housing in transit zones.
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Financing Transit-Oriented Development

This report prepared for the Bay Area Metropolitan Transit Commission outlines financial and regulatory barriers that impede transit-oriented development, the role of redevelopment agencies, market and private developers, and the role of county and regional agencies, and several case studies.
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Housing Incentive Program

Bay Area Metropolitan Transportation Commission's Housing Incentive Program (HIP) provides grants of up to $2,500 per bedroom for housing within 1/3 mile of major transit stations.
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Maximizing Investment Around Transit

Provides examples of how transit-oriented development in Boston, Denver, Portland, and the Bay Area has the potential to catalyze community revitalization and private investment.
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Urban Transit Hub Tax Credit

New Jersey initiative designed to encourage investment and job growth around urban transit rail stations in nine urban municipalities – Camden, East Orange, Elizabeth, Hoboken, Jersey City, Newark, New Brunswick, Paterson, and Trenton. The Urban Transit Hub Tax Credit Program provides tax credits equal to 80 percent to 100 percent of the qualified capital investments made within an eight-year period.
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Summary of TOD Incentive Programs

Provides a summary of incentive programs in the regions of Atlanta, Georgia; Austin, Texas; and Sacramento, San Francisco, San Diego, and San Mateo, California.
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Austin TOD

Explains how Austin has made a direct commitment towards focusing growth around transit facilities by supporting Transit-Oriented Development (TOD). The TOD Guidebook and other documents outline the Station Area Planning process and lists several TOD resources.
TOD HOME | Guidebook

California Blueprint Planning

The California Blueprint Planning Grant program contributes to the vision of improved quality of life by addressing future growth through the integration of transportation, housing, land use, environmental resources, other infrastructure, and services. This integration addresses the need for integrated planning requirements included in Regional Transportation Guidelines and the Regional Housing Needs Allocation Process.
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Denver Coordination of Housing and Transportation Planning

Denver's 2008-2012 Consolidated Plan indicates city agencies whose funds are not covered continue to be a part of its development and implementation. The city's Office of Economic Development and Department of Community Planning and Department work in partnership on a Transit Oriented Development Initiative to create workforce housing near current and future transit locations. Objective 1.4 in the plan targets TOD funding for renter households with incomes at or below 30 percent of the area median. The City of Denver is establishing a $15 million TOD Fund that will provide financing to preserve affordable housing within one half mile of existing and new rail service and a quarter mile of frequent bus routes.
Consolidated Plan | TOD Fund

Hennepin County, MN

Since 2003, Hennepin County has provided $9.9 million in Transit Oriented Development funding for 50 projects that links housing and economic development with transit corridors, increased density near transit corridors, increased ridership of transit services and leveraged other public and private resources.
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King County TOD Projects

Provides examples of transit oriented development projects, including Overlake Park-and-Ride TOD project in Redmond, WA, a joint development of King County, the King County Housing Authority, and a private developer using tax-exempt financing and federal housing tax credits.
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Federal Transit Administration

Provides overview of transit oriented development, links to FTA programs, and reports.
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Transit Oriented Development and Jobs

Identifies 25 examples of how community groups, CDCs, and developers helped provide working families with affordable housing and employment opportunities through transit oriented development.
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Saving Affordable Housing Near Transit

This report identifies strategies for preservation of federally assisted affordable housing near existing or proposed public transportation in 8 cities.
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Preserving Affordable Housing Near Transit

This report analyses potential loss of affordable housing near transit in 20 metropolitan areas during the next five years and contains policy recommendations for federal, state, and local policy makers.
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TOD in St. Clair County

In St. Clair County, IL, near St. Louis, a transit oriented development project is underway to create a transit oriented village around Emerson Park station. All the completed units are already leased, over 400 units of affordable housing are for sale. A new park has opened in the area and a small commercial area is beginning to develop around the station The project is helping to revitalize East St. Louis, an area that has been economically depressed for years.
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