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Moving From TOD Planning to Implementation:
The Twin Cities Story
Gretchen Nicholls Housing + Transit Conference Austin TX
October 2010
• BOSTON: mature system, hot housing market, state leadership
• CHARLOTTE: new line under construction, rapidly growing region and active housing market, city and transit agency leaders
• DENVER: expanding new system, hot housing market, city/county partnering with MPO and transit agency
• PORTLAND: expanding multi-modal system, hot housing market, regional approach
• TWIN CITIES: new system with plans to expand, warm housing market, ridership and development responding to TOD, multiple public actors
Overview of Five Case Study Regions
• Development has far exceeded expectations
• Tremendous potential for neighborhood transformation – redeveloping industrial lands but also negatively impacting affordability
• No real strategy for looking at how to keep this area affordable.
• How could affordable housing help trigger the market?
• Challenges of disposing/transitioning land acquired in building the line
• Need to determine how to keep the market going, but also make good places.
• Part of joint development is setting up the context for the private sector to maximize its investment and for the highest and best transit use (not just the highest dollar amount).
• Localities cannot do it alone, need larger regional and state support
What does the Hiawatha Story Tell Us So Far?
Corridors of OpportunityProgrammatic & Geographic Areas of Focus
Affordable housing preservation & advancing opportunities for equitable TOD Hiawatha, Central, Southwest: building off inventories
Small business support to grow customer base before, during, and after LRT construction New loan products to create affordable space for new entrepreneurs Central, downtown St. Paul, next-in-queue
Using SWLRT to institutionalize new approaches: Long-term investment frameworks New coordination structures w/transit project office and Community
Works Process
Enhance region’s decision-making structure around transportation investment & land use decisions.
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Regional Initiatives
Community Development
Both/And (not Either/Or) Community development works Community development is about R & D for systems change
Green / sustainable development Cross-disciplinary partnerships Multiple purpose (mixed uses)
CONNECTION
BUILDING CONSENSUS
Sponsored by:
Getting it Done:
A workshop series on Transit-Oriented Districts and Walkable Communities
March – June 2010
Regional Initiatives
Workshop Topics:
Workshop I: Infrastructure and the Public Realm
Gary Toth, Project for Public Spaces
Workshop II: Connecting Land Use and Transportation
Joe Shilling, VirginiaTech Metropolitan Center
Workshop III: Equitable Development and Community Benefits
Leslie Moody, Partnership With Working Families
Workshop IV: Financing – Building Public / Private Partnerships
Dena Belzer, Strategic Economics
Who participated?
• 16 cities• 5 counties• Met Council, state and federal agencies.• 19 developers• 58 advocacy groups and community-based
organizations• 35% attended 3 – 4 sessions.• Cross-disciplinary and cross-sector involvement.
Summaries and Next Steps • Findings and policy recommendations from the series
will be shared with city councils, planning commissions, legislative committees, and other key partners.
• A web site that contains all of the presentations, links, and information gathered at the Getting it Done TOD series is available at www.reconnectingamerica.org/static/twincitiestodtoolkit/workshop
• A shared definition of transit-oriented development.
• A collection of local TOD case studies that provide information on what it took to get there (including capstone projects to further our on-the-ground learning).
Top Ten TOD Policy Strategies
1. Zoning revisions - minimum FAR, maximum parking 2. Invest in a system of transit improvements 3. Prioritize investment areas by identifying regional
growth centers and conducting regional market analysis 4. Pass TIF for TOD 5. Make Livable Communities Act more explicitly a TOD
program.6. Use planning, urban design policy to influence design,
engineering of LRT, BRT 7. Land banking resources (patient capital) and strategies 8. Land trust options for residential and commercial sites.9. Improve watershed planning and coordination with cities. 10. Advocate against decentralized employment locations.
July – November 2011
The Big Picture Project:Aligning housing plans along the Central Corridor
Central Corridor / Subareas
Adding it up to achieve goals
What will it take?
Framing DocumentsSpreadsheet of existing plans, policies and recommendations
MAPS
Affordable Housing near Transit / National Case Studies and Strategies
Project Team
Government Development
Finance Community
The Process
Final Product:
Central Corridor Affordable Housing
Coordinated PlanOutcome:
To provide a coordinated set of strategies for the Central Corridor that government, community, finance, and development partners can work toward to achieve affordable housing options, and identify policies that will enable those strategies to succeed.
Providing a framework for higher density housing and mixed-use development
along transportation corridors
Corridor Development Initiative
Community Development
Proactive Planning
Production
Partnerships
CDI Block Exercise
An interactive exercise for community members to explore different development options and find out if the are financially viable.
CDI Block Exercise: What it is
CDI Block Exercise: Community Impact
Participants leave with a deeper understanding about the economic constraints of development and design opportunities in their neighborhood
Block Exercise: Community Impact
Block Exercise: Products Summary Sheet of all Scenarios Created
Final Recommendations Submit to city officials
Brooklyn Park / Huntington Pointe Site:Development Guidelines
Sponsored by the Brooklyn Park Economic Development Authority,Hennepin County Housing, Community Works, and Transit and the
Corridor Development Initiative/Twin Cities LISC
•Change is natural evolution of past and future•Ground discussion in shared values•Experts on tap, not experts on top•Translate technical terminology
Lessons Learned
• Connect vision with financial realities• Use local images • Neutral facilitator essential
“The Corridor Development Initiative provides a great education to community members, makes visions more concrete, increases comfort with
housing options and provides a venue for community members to work together to identify their goals.”
Amy Sparks, St. Anthony Park Community
“The Corridor Development Initiative gets residents
meaningfully engaged in shaping the future of their neighborhoods. Any community looking for a new
way to resolve controversial neighborhood redevelopment and infill issues should consider using
this as a model,”
APA Awards Jury Chair Carol Rhea.
For more information go to:
www.corridordevelopment.org
gnicholls@lisc.org