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Baseline Scenario
Quality Growth Strategy
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Quality Growth Strategy Review

• Traffic Congestion decreases 12
• Auto Emissions decreases 7
• Total open land preserved 171 square miles (160
  square miles of Ag land)
• Decreased water demand

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Assessment and Renewal Process

• Findings
• Public Transportation
• Water Conservation
• Housing
• Economic Development

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Assessment and Renewal Process

• Findings
• Public Transportation
• Water Conservation
• Housing
• Economic Development

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Water Supply and DemandGreater Wasatch Area
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Mountain View CorridorEIS

• 16 Cities
• 2 Counties
• 2 MPOS
• Lots of traffic

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The Wasatch Fronts pinch points
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Mountain View CorridorEIS

• Workshop format was table top exercise with
  diverse people discussing land use and
  transportation solutions

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Mountain View Corridor Vision Model Results
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Mountain View Corridor Vision Model Results
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Mountain View Corridor Process

• Changes to land use will impact transportation
  system significantly
• Cities in specific locations now have opportunity
  to modify plans
• All entities with land use changes have signed
  on
• 1 to 1 ½ year time frame to make changes

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WFRC Long Range Plan an integrated road and
transit plan
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Benefits of Public Transportation

• Issue Long Range Plan would require increases in
  funding for both roadways and transit
• Question Do potential benefits of the plan
  outweigh the costs?
• Many benefits are well understood road benefits,
  transit impact on air pollution, etc.

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Other Public Transportation Benefits?

• Effect on business development
• Reductions in the cost of doing business (freight
  mobility improvements, parking reductions, air
  quality improvements)
• Effect on workforce attraction
• Impact on individuals and households (value of
  time spent in traffic, transportation expenses)
• Generating development activity, especially
  moderately priced housing, near transit nodes and
  associated reductions in sprawl
• Economic impact of air quality improvements
  (e.g., health benefits, business benefits, road
  building benefits)

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Other Public Transportation Benefits?

• Effect on business development
• Transit projects alone, almost never the sole
  impetus for economic development and community
  transformation
• Codes and ordinances
• Ease of building permits etc.

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Other Public Transportation Benefits?

• Reductions in the cost of doing business (freight
  mobility improvements, parking reductions, air
  quality improvements)
• Effect on workforce attraction
• As the size of a regions workforce doubles, a
  companies productivity increases by about ½
  percent- can be significant in certain industries

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Other Public Transportation Benefits?

• Impact on individuals and households (value of
  time spent in traffic, transportation expenses)
• Factors affecting willingness to ride transit
• Quantifying savings to individuals by utilizing
  transit
• REMI Model will forecast economic impact of
  increased disposable income (saved by using
  transit) by citizens

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Importance for disabled, young, old and poor

• By 2020, 40 of U.S. will be seniors- many will
  be unable to drive
• Over 54 million Americans have disabilities- 75
  unemployment due in many cases to lack of
  transportation options
• Gets former welfare recipients into the
  workforce- 94 do not own cars

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Other Public Transportation Benefits?

• Generating development activity, especially
  moderately priced housing, near transit nodes and
  associated reductions in sprawl
• TOD impact on housing costs and sprawl
• LEM (Location Efficient Mortgages)

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Public Transportation and Homeownership

• Cost of owning one car per year 8400
• In Mortgage Calculations, Fannie Mae credits
  households near transit with 200 additional in
  monthly income to account for transportation
  savings
• QUESTION how might the LRP affect auto ownership
  for those living in station areas?
• What does this do for home ownership?

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Other Public Transportation Benefits?

• Economic impact of air quality improvements
  (e.g., health benefits, business benefits, road
  building benefits)
• Transits influence may help the region avoid non
  conformance
• Might enable the continued construction of
  roadways

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Economic Development

• Impetus for study
• Smart Sites
• EU residential and retail focus
• Toolbox Document (Study)
• Region wide cooperation
• Job locations
• Quality Jobs
• Potential Impact to transportation

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Estimated Statistics between Salt Lake, Davis and
Weber Counties Number of acres within the ½
mile transit nodes 80,030 Number of units
within the ½ mile transit nodes _at_ 8 DU/acre on
half of the acres 320,120 units Population
estimate _at_ 3 persons per household 960,358
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Population Within 1/2 Mile of Rail Transit 2020
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