For five years, pundits, planners, and policy-makers have scratched their heads at Los Angeles’ steep public transit ridership decline: a 21% decrease on buses,15% in total. To explain it, they cite ...

Transit-oriented development—which concentrates high-density housing, commercial activities and public spaces around a rapid transit station—can both be a boon and a bane for communities, suggests a ...

The county also intends to provide research on how communities could pay for new zoning and obtain funding to support transit oriented development. “The county works under the premise of presenting ...

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In the early 1990s, urban planner and visionary Peter Calthorpe promoted transit-oriented development (TOD) as the future of vibrant cities. He was hired by the city of San Diego to help revise its ...

Of the total, roughly $2.35 billion worth of development, or more than 81%, occurred within the City of Cleveland. And of that amount, nearly 88%, or almost $2.1 billion, occurred in downtown and ...

On March 7, 2023, as part of Mayor Todd Gloria’s 2022 Land Development Code Update, five San Diego City Council members voted to adopt the “Sustainable Development Area” (SDA) to apply to local San ...

DART's Mockingbird station is one example of a transit-oriented development in Dallas. North Texas transit leaders say the future of the region's growth involves significant investments in ...

EVIVA at Trinity Mills apartment seen from the DART station nearby in Carrollton. One of the newest housing developments in the city, it's an example of a transit-oriented development built to ...