Gentle Density and Missing Middle Housing in New Jersey
In New Jersey, as in much of the U.S., prospective homeowners and tenants often face a choice between single-family homes
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Case Studies & Guidebooks
Transit Friendly Planning: A Guide for New Jersey Communities
Report link: Transit Friendly Planning: A Guide for New Jersey Communities
With a goal of supporting sustainable and affordable lifestyles through accessible mobility, NJ TRANSIT’s Transit Friendly Planning: A Guide for New Jersey Communities seeks to empower diverse stakeholders in making land use decisions that support and encourage transit use.
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Guide to Joint Development for Public Transportation Agencies
Report link: Guide to Joint Development for Public Transportation Agencies
TCRP’s recently released report provides detailed guidelines and best practices on the real estate development process that occurs on transit agency property or through some other type of development transaction to which the transit agency is a party.
Promoting Transit-Oriented Developments by Addressing Barriers Related to Land Use, Zoning, and Value Capture
Report link: Value Capture: Capitalizing on the Value Created by Transportation Implementation Manual
Researchers from San Jose State University explore the land use, zoning, and value capture-related barriers that stymy the construction of TODs as well as strategies used or that could be used to surmount these hurdles.
Guide to Facilitate Historic Preservation through Transit-Oriented Development
While transit-oriented development may be seen as acting in conflict with historic preservation, this 2016 Guidebook and Video explain how city officials and planners can use transfer of development rights and other techniques to simultaneously promote both transit-oriented development and historic preservation efforts.
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Linking People to Opportunity: FTA’s Role in Creating Complete Communities
Video link: Linking People to Opportunity: FTA’s Role in Creating Complete Communities
This video from 2017 discusses how transit-oriented development (TOD) can be used to increase access to opportunities via public transportation and how public transportation serves to create more complete communities.
Manual on Bicycle and Pedestrian Connections to Transit
Report link: Manual on Bicycle and Pedestrian Connections to Transit
FTA Report No. 0111 outlines best practices to make transit stations as accessible and safe as possible for bicyclists and pedestrians.
Financing Transit-Oriented Development with Land Values
Report link: Financing Transit-Oriented Development with Land Values
Financing Transit-Oriented Development with Land Values, land value capture (LVC) techniques for developing countries, with application for the US.
Targeting Transit: Assessing Development Opportunities around New Jersey’s Transit Stations
Report link: Targeting Transit
In Targeting Transit, New Jersey Future’s director of research, Tim Evans, presents a tool that can be used to prioritize TOD investments.
TOD 205: Families and Transit-Oriented Development: Creating Complete Communities for All
Report link: TOD 205: Families and Transit-Oriented Development: Creating Complete Communities for All
Families and Transit-Oriented Development presents strategies for creating TOD that supports family-friendly communities and high-quality education.