Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Transit Oriented Development

Can Transit-Oriented Development Lift All Boats?

By Tanya Snyder | Mar 25, 2011 | No Comments

Streetsblog San Francisco reported earlier this week that the Metropolitan Transportation Commission has made a $10 million funding commitment to a mixed-use affordable housing project in the Tenderloin neighborhood, a convenient two-block walk from the nearest Muni stop: The development at 168 Eddy Street would provide 153 new apartments reserved for low-income families and space […]

The Secrets to Success for Transit-Oriented Development

By Tanya Snyder | Mar 24, 2011 | No Comments

“Transit alone is insufficient to make a real estate market,” said Dena Belzer, the president of Strategic Economics, an urban design consulting firm. Her group is a partner in the Center for Transit-Oriented Development (CTOD), which this week released a new report on the effects of transit expansion on real estate markets. Transit won’t, on […]

Transit-Oriented Development and Communities of Color: A Field Report

By Gen Fujioka | Mar 23, 2011 | 13 Comments

(This article first appeared in Progressive Planner, the official magazine of the Planner’s Network and is reprinted with the author’s permission. Gen Fujioka is the senior policy advocate with the National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development. This article was written in collaboration with the Urban Communities of Color Caucus which seeks to advance […]

Moving Beyond the Automobile: Transit Oriented Development

By Damien Newton and Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Feb 15, 2011 | 4 Comments

This Streetfilm, by Clarence Eckerson Jr., is an important one for Los Angeles as we consider how our city and county are going to grow as a result of the expected transit boom in the coming decade(s). This film focuses on Transit Oriented Development, with a focus on how a light rail line transformed Jersey […]

The Lorenzo Project in South L.A. Is Controversial, But Is it T.O.D.?

By Damien Newton | Jan 20, 2011 | 12 Comments

Last week, at a packed meeting of the City of Los Angeles Planning Commission, the Commission punted on a proposed $250-million residential development known as the Lorenzo. The developer, Geoffery Palmer of Palmer Construction, is known for his other Italian-themed apartment developments Medici, Visconti, Orsini and Piero. He’s also known for successfully challenging a local […]

BRU Celebrates Anniversary of Montgomery Bus Boycott with Concert, Rally and New Alliance

By Damien Newton | Dec 2, 2010 | 7 Comments

For part two of our interview, click here. Or, see all our video from the event at our YouTube page. If there’s any doubt that housing and how the city grows will be a dominant issue in transportation and development circles, a new alliance of the Bus Riders Union and The L.A. Human Right to […]

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