Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Transit Oriented Development

Los Angeles and the Case for Transit Oriented Development: Building and Funding TOD

By Joel Epstein | May 25, 2012 | 6 Comments

This is the third part of a three part series on Transit Oriented Development written by Joel Epstein. Part I ran on Wednesday and introduced the series and looked at Metro’s current role. Part II ran yesterday and focused on the TOD history of L.A. since construction of the Red Line. The series was originally […]

Los Angeles and the Case for Transit Oriented Development: TOD Since the Red Line

By Joel Epstein | May 24, 2012 | 2 Comments

This is the second in a three-part series on Transit Oriented Development and Los Angeles by Joel Epstein. Yesterday’s piece was an introduction and a look at Metro’s role. Today, Epstein looks at the history of TOD on the Red Line. Tomorrow, he examines what L.A. has to do to embrace true Transit Oriented Development. […]

Los Angeles and the Case for Transit-Oriented Development (Part 1 of 3)

By Joel Epstein | May 23, 2012 | 4 Comments

This is the first in a three-part series on Transit Oriented Development and Los Angeles. Today’s piece is an introduction and a look at Metro’s role. Tomorrow looks at the history of TOD on the Red Line. Friday examines what L.A. has to do to embrace true Transit Oriented Development. For those of us who […]

Part 1: City Planner Claire Bowin Answers Streetsblog Reader Questions on TOD, Affordable Housing and City Planning

By Damien Newton | Jan 31, 2012 | 2 Comments

Over the past couple of years, the name “Claire Bowin” has been attached to many of the most important projects that Streetsblog regularly covers. For that reason, we decided to feature a reader question and answer with Bowin so readers could both get to know her and learn a little more about how the city […]

New Coalition Looks to Reform L.A.’s Transit-Oriented Development

By Joe Linton | Jul 13, 2011 | 5 Comments

Yesterday, Tuesday July 12th 2011, marked the first meeting of a fledgling coalition re-examining the way Southern California does Transit Oriented Development (TOD.) Over 100 people, representing nearly as many organizations, attended the Los Angeles Summit on Community-Oriented T.O.D. which took place at the Asian Pacific American Legal Center near downtown Los Angeles. The event was organized by […]

A.B. 710 Sails Through Committee, No Date Yet for Full Assembly Hearing

By Damien Newton | Apr 27, 2011 | 9 Comments

Earlier today, A.B. 710, the Infill Development and Sustainable Community Act of 2011, sailed through a hearing of the California State Assembly Committee on Housing and Community Development. If adopted, A.B. 710 would drop minimum parking requirements for infill development in “transit intensive areas” down to one car per residential unit or per 1,000 square […]

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