Developing Around Transit, Planning for Growth

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Developing Around Transit, Planning
for Growth

• Maureen McAvey
• Senior Resident Fellow, Urban Land Institute

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Coming Attractions

• 90 million more residents by 2030
• Mostly in South and West
• Virtually all in cities/metro areas
• About half of the homes, office buildings, stores
  and factories needed by 2030 dont exist today.

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Changing Trends

• 70 of American households do NOT have children
  18 years of age and younger
• 70 of married women work
• 20 of workforce (some 23 million people) now
  work at home at least some significant part of
  their work week
• Congestion and quality of life rated as one of
  top 5 issues

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Other Considerations

• Rising price of gas/oil
• Increasing world demand for oil
• High price of housing
• transportation Too much for most households

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Source Rebecca Sohmer and Robert Lang Downtown
Rebound, 1990-2000 US Census
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Changing Public Perspectives

• 75 of daily traffic NOT work/home commute
• To reduce traffic, make it easier to park once,
  walk or bike
• OR.use transit

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Land Use and Transport Options Best if Built in,
Not Added on Later

• Transit Now
• Transit Coming
• Transit?
• Pedestrians?

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Minimum Densities and Transit
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Think Transit.Think Development Options

• Infill
• Mixed-Use
• Public/shared parking
• Public/private partnerships
• Multi-modal transit

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DAT The Developers Perspective

• Longer development cycles
• More expensive
• Unproven Market
• High Risk
• Uncertain Profits
• Brain Damage

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DAT Transportation View

• Move people near transit
• Enhance transit service
• Increase ridership
• Expand income from land
• Shared Parking

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Critical Issues

• Compact/appropriate density
• Planning for Transit
• Flexible regulations
• Parking
• Community education

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1. Encourage Appropriate Density

• Planning for growth
• Different housing types, styles, markets
• Office retail uses
• Open space, amenities

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2. Plan for the Future
Transit Ready

• Think connections
• Public realm
• Parking
• Sidewalks
• Future stations
• Development clusters around future transit

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Use multiple connections to enhance mobility and
circulation
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Planning Transit Ready

• What is the access and mobility SYSTEM?
• Walking
• Biking
• Bus
• LRT

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Arlington County Concept Plan

• Move Transit from Freeway to Main St
• Cluster Development

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Rosslyn Ballston Land Use Plan
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Arlington County Then

• Declining corridor
• Lumber yards
• Pawn Shops
• Oil Tanks

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And Today
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Source Metropolitan Washington Council of
Governments
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3. Flexible Regulations

• Most important Public Realm
• Street width, streetscape
• Sidewalks
• Lighting
• Parking/paths to transit
• Upper storiesleft to the market.housing,
  office, hotel

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Build it and They will walk

• Home, Work, ?
• Compact, connected
• Attractions
• Sidewalks
• Streetscape
• Essential for Transit

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4. Get the Parking Right

•    Move
•    Share
•    Deck
•    Wrap

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Shared Parking

• Right-sizing parking is crucial
• Public use
• Private or shared pay
• Parking districts
• Park once, walk 2-3 blocks

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Walking at Work The Washington Suburbs
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5. Community Education

• Increase access and mobility
• Improve livability index --housing
  transportation
• Increase CHOICE
• Visualize the future

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Property Value Benefits
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Transit-Oriented Areas
Urban-Advantage.com
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Good Development Around Transit Does Not Just
Happen

• It Takes
• Planning by BOTH developers and communities
• Regulations
• Incentives (possibly)
• And, of course, Good MARKET

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