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New Places, New Choices: Transit-Oriented Development in the San Francisco Bay Area

Summarizes the benefits and challenges of TOD and highlights local examples.

Focusing Our Vision (Backgrounder)

A four-page summary of the key concepts and initiatives underlying the ABAG and MTC Focusing Our Vision program (4/2006)

(pdf, 1.5MB)

Report to the Legislature on the Feasibility of Consolidating ABAG and MTC Functions

Responds to a requirement in Senate Bill 849 (Torlakson, 2004) that the Joint Policy Committee consider opportunities for consolidation of functions between the two regional agencies and report to the Legislature by January, 2006 (10/21/2005)

(pdf, 402 KB)

Grant Application to the State of California Regional Blueprint Planning Program

Supports further implementation and refinement of the regional Vision that resulted from the Bay Area's pioneering Smart Growth Strategy / Regional Livability Footprint Project.  The principal deliverable will be a set of regionally adopted Development Priority Areas, where housing planning and production can be focused (9/30/2005)

(pdf, 3.68 MB)

 

A Consolidated Work Program for Implementing and Refining the Bay Area's Smart-Growth Vision

Sets forth a rationale and a set of tasks for pursuing and sharpening the regional vision over the next several years (9/23/2005)

(pdf, 334 KB)

Bay Area Transit Oriented Development (TOD) Study

Links to a compendium of reports, presentations and maps on transit-oriented development and on the new policy relating to Resolution 3434 investments.  Click here to review public correspondence on TOD.

 

Smart-Growth Incentives for Developers and Investors

Identifies ways to encourage development and investment that is consistent with smart-growth principles (6/1/2005)

(pdf, 71 KB)

Smart-Growth Incentives for Neighborhoods

Outlines ideas that may assist neighborhoods in accepting infill development and associated community change (4/5/2005)

(pdf, 125 KB)

Smart-Growth Incentives for Local Government

Lays out a simple framework for organizing and understanding existing and potential incentives and then identifies incentives applicable to local governments (3/17/2005)

(pdf, 170 KB)

Housing Units Permitted 2000-2004 Compared to Regional Policy Targets

Compares housing achievement to two policy targets: the Regional Housing Needs Determination and the Smart-Growth Vision as represented in Projections 2005 (2/1/2005)

(pdf, 77 KB)

Multi-family Development in the Bay Area

A first summary look at a building permit data set and what it can tell us about the quantity and character of housing growth in the Bay Area's counties and cities (12/21/2004)

(pdf, 141 KB)

Maps of multi-family data set

(pdf, 3.05 MB)

 

A Smart-Growth Checklist for Testing Development Projects Against Bay Area Livability Objectives

A draft instrument for use by local governments in assessing developments relative to regional smart-growth principles (10/4/2004)

(pdf, 136 KB)

                         

      

 

 

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