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LIVABILITY AND SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES – TAKING ACTION FOR A CLEAN ENERGY FUTURE
Reconnecting America Participates in White House briefing

FTA LIVABLE COMMUNITIES WEBSITE
Federal site links to many Reconnecting America resources for the development of sustainable communities, affordable housing and transit-oriented development

TIGER GRANTS FUND WAVE OF TRANSPORTATION INNOVATION
TIGER program demonstrates Administration’s continued commitment to livability, says Reconnecting America CEO John Robert Smith

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Legal Handbook For The New Starts Process
Overview of the FTA’s New Starts project development process and the legal issues associated with it · PDF

Moving Toward Implementation: An Examination Of The Organizational And Political Structures Of Transit-Oriented Development
Explores the costs and impacts of Transit Oriented Development and addresses the rationale for designing transit-oriented neighborhoods · PDF

Overlooked Density: Rethinking Transportation Options in Suburbia
The potential exists to create more integrated, sustainable, and multi-modal development in suburbia, by capitalizing on existing suburban multifamily development densities and locations. · PDF

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MAKING THE TWIN CITIES MORE WALKABLE
New CTOD report provides methodology for assessing and boosting the walkability of a place

CAPTURING THE VALUE OF TRANSIT
New report by Center for Transit-Oriented Development released

FINANCING TRANSIT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT
Policy Options and Strategies in the San Francisco Bay Area

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Quote of the Day

Washington Post

"They laughed," says Villaraigosa. "They said they didn't have a program that could do this."
 
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(March 11, 2010)

San Jose: Milpitas Votes Stop Location, Development

San Jose Mercury News

City officials last week supported Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority's vision of greater development at Milpitas' future Bay Area Rapid Transit station site at the southeast corner of Capitol Avenue and Montague Expressway...
 
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(March 11, 2010)

Quote of the Day

Los Angeles Times

"The only option they presented to us was either losing the condo units or losing our train station,"
 
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(March 10, 2010)

Blogosphere: Rural Senators Skeptical of Livability Bill

Streetsblog DC


Even as the Obama administration ramps up its work on a sustainability initiative that treats transportation, housing, and energy efficiency as interconnected aspects of development policy, the effort remains without an official congressional authorization -- a situation that Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd (D-CT) vowed to fix yesterday. ...
 
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(March 10, 2010)

Blogosphere: Local Lesson in Transit Orientation

NRDC Switchboard

Several weeks ago, I ran a post making the case that transit-oriented development requires more than just transit and development.  As the phrase implies, it also requires orientation: the development must relate to and be convenient to the transit....
 
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(March 9, 2010)

National: Dodd Promises Support for Smart Growth

Hartford Courant

Acknowledging that he's running short on time, U.S. Sen. Christopher Dodd on Monday promised that he'll step up his work for a law to promote networks of affordable housing and mass transit....
 
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(March 9, 2010)

Livability and Sustainable Communities – Taking Action For A Clean Energy Future

Reconnecting America Participates in White House briefing

A desire to advance local livability efforts brought Reconnecting America and about 100 other people to the White House on March 3 for a forum titled, “Livability and Sustainable Communities – Taking Action for a Clean Energy Future." The event brought together private developers, leaders of the faith community, transportation practitioners, local mayors and transit agency CEOs, social equity advocates and federal agency leaders.

(March 9, 2010)

Utah: Framington Gets HUD Funding for TOD


A $36 million transit-oriented development adjacent to Station Park has been approved for funding through a Housing and Urban Development program, says one of the project's planners. Ernest Willmore, a principal with Willmore Development, told city officials he has received an invitation letter from HUD providing funding to facilitate the construction of Park Lane Village, a 324-unit apartment development at approximately 500 North and 1000 West...
 
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(March 8, 2010)

Los Angeles: Near Freeway TOD, Black Lungs

Los Angeles Weekly


On a recent afternoon in the Eastside neighborhood of Lincoln Heights, Fay Green stands in the hallway of her apartment complex, which sits just feet above the bumper-to-bumper traffic of the I-5 freeway....
 
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(March 8, 2010)

National: Do Enviro Regs Hurt Economy?

Governing Magazine


Here in California, we are in the middle of not just a recession, but also one of the deepest and most disturbing crises in government finance since the Great Depression. Our state spending is chronically 20 percent above our state revenue...
 
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(March 8, 2010)

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