Development & Redevelopment – The Transit Friendly Planning Newsletter

Ming Zhang’s TOD 2.0 (Next-Gen Transit-Oriented Development) reimagines urban planning by expanding the traditional framework to address income inequality, climate change, and emerging transportation technologies through five key dimensions: Efficiency, Equity, Eco-Adaptability, Evaluation, and Education.

Development & Redevelopment Recommended Reading

Unlocking the TOD Potential of the MARC Penn Line Corridor

July 1, 2025

Report Link: Unlocking the TOD Potential of the MARC Penn Line Corridor

This report discusses the potential economic benefits of TOD projects in station areas along the Maryland Area Rail Commuter (MARC) system’s Penn Line.

Case Studies & Guidebooks Development & Redevelopment Housing Recommended Reading

Gentle Density and Missing Middle Housing in New Jersey

March 7, 2025

Report Link: Gentle Density and Missing Middle Housing in New Jersey

NJ TRANSIT’s Transit Friendly Planning (TFP) program released Gentle Density and Missing Middle Housing in New Jersey: A Guide for New Jersey Communities in July 2025, providing municipalities with guidance on how to implement gentle density and expand missing middle housing.

Case Studies & Guidebooks Development & Redevelopment Financing & Economics

Guide to Joint Development for Public Transportation Agencies

July 14, 2021

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.

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Reimagining Bloomfield Streets

March 31, 2021

Report Link: Reimagining Bloomfield Streets

This fall 2018 studio led by VTC’s Stephanie DiPetrillo and Leigh Ann Von Hagen explored ways to improve access by all modes of travel to the Watsessing Avenue Station and provided recommendations to enhance existing assets in support of overall health, wellness, and equity in Bloomfield Township, New Jersey.

Active Transportation Development & Redevelopment Health & Environment

Are We There Yet? Creating Complete Communities for 21st Century America

June 3, 2020

Report link: Are We There Yet?
Reconnecting America’s 2012 research study on complete communities across the United States provides a timely look into how cities can recover from the COVID-19 crisis in the coming months and years. The study focuses on city characteristics that allow their residents to live, work, move, and thrive. Indicators used in the study provide a baseline to show what was making cities successful before the pandemic hit, and where they can begin building complete communities.

Development & Redevelopment Equitable TOD

Communities are Embracing Development near Transit

November 6, 2018

Report link: Communities are Embracing Development near Transit
A 2017 AARP report provides a snapshot of the policy and planning supports employed by state, regional, and local actors to support transit oriented development (TOD) from 2015 to 2016 and suggests that the number and variety of TOD programs and policies at all levels of government have grown significantly.

Development & Redevelopment Financing & Economics Housing

Rutgers Regional Report: The ‘Burbs’ Bounce Back: ‘Trendlet’ or ‘Dead Cat Bounce’?

October 24, 2018

Report link: Rutgers Regional Report: The ‘Burbs’ Bounce Back: ‘Trendlet’ or ‘Dead Cat Bounce’?
A 2018 Rutgers Regional Report examines whether a recent increase in suburban population in the New York metropolitan region is an irregularity or a notable shift from a larger, post-2010 reurbanization trend.

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Development & Redevelopment

Four Communities Share Key Lessons Learned from Creative Placemaking on Vacant Properties

October 2, 2018

Report link: Creative Placemaking on Vacant Properties: Lessons Learned from Four Cities
Center for Community Progress, with Metris Arts Consulting, shows how creative placemaking can be used as a critical tool to support equitable revitalization.

Development & Redevelopment Housing

School-Age Children in Rental Units in New Jersey: Results from a Survey of Developers and Property Managers

September 19, 2018

Report Link: School-Age Children in Rental Units in New Jersey

A study completed in July 2018 by the Rutgers Center for Real Estate estimates the number of school-age children associated with recent constructed New Jersey market-rate and affordable rental units.

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