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is currently creating a truly comprehensive
blueprint, entitled Transportation for a Livable
Region (TLR), which will identify how we can
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building vibrant and healthy communities. |
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Hot
Item!
CALL FOR INPUT AND
REVIEW OF TALC'S
Instant Advocate Toolkit CD-ROM & WEBSITE |
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Send us
your County's "Top Three Land Use Priorities" for TALC's
TLR Report!
Think David Letterman top ten
list, but even better! We will compile a "Top Land Use
Priorities List" that represents the three most
important land use priorities which help ensure the
future livability of each county. A land use priority
can relate to any aspect of the way land is used (open
space, housing, planning processes, affordability,
parking, etc) and can be anything of regional or
countywide significance (a specific project, a land use
policy, a parcel of land that should be preserved, what
type of land use should happen in a certain place, etc).
To submit your Top Three Land Use Priorities, please
email
Amber Crabbe,
TLR coordinator, with 1-your name, 2-for which county
you are submitting a list (more than one county is OK),
and 3-your Top Three Land Use Priorities for that
county.
Example:
Name: Ima Busrider
County: San Francisco
Top Three Land Use Priorities:
1-Make sure new housing going up in Transbay
Terminal and Rincon Hill areas are well designed, offer
affordable choices, and contribute to building a real
neighborhood, not just a cluster of housing
developments.
2-Make it easier to build second units
(“in-laws”) near transit.
3-Use Neighborhood Plans (specific plans) to
engage communities in the management of housing and job
growth in their neighborhoods. |
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What is TLR?
In January 2000,
TALC released the 120-page World
Class Transit for the Bay Area. This report specified $12 billion of cost-effective projects that would provide transit that is
fast, convenient, affordable, and could be ready within just a few years from the time they are funded. World Class Transit has
been invaluable in shaping the debate over transit investments and bringing both validity and unity to
TALC'S position, but it
is quickly becoming outdated, since many of its key recommendations have been funded or are in the early planning phases, including:
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A tripling of MTC's Smart Growth incentive program
known as "Transportation for Livable Communities" to $27 million per year,
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The development of a regional express bus network,
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An extension of Caltrain to an inspiring new Transbay
Terminal in downtown San Francisco, and,
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A pilot program of free transit passes for low-income
youth,
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Promoting compact, infill, transit-oriented, mixed-use and mixed-income development, and,
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Locating quality jobs in areas of existing work force
housing, and along major transportation lines
and hubs
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Rather than simply updating World Class Transit,
TALC is currently creating a truly comprehensive blueprint, entitled Transportation for a Livable Region, which will identify
how we can redirect our transportation investment towards building vibrant and healthy communities. Transportation for a Livable
Region will provide a broader scope than just transit recommendations by including bike and pedestrian projects and incorporating
smart growth incentives along with sustainable and affordable housing. This initiative will attempt to focus more than $16 billion of
future transportation investments on projects that promote sustainability and social equity instead of subsidizing more sprawl.
The final products of Transportation for a Livable
Region will also look much different than the World Class Transit report. To inspire immediate action and to get our
recommendations across as clearly as possible, we will produce a friendly, readable publication that frames only the
most important information but leaves clear instruction as to how to get more details or clarification. An outline of the structure for
this publication can be found
here. To complement this easily digestible document, Transportation
for a Livable Region will also publish a CD-ROM toolkit of strategies (named
Instant Advocate
Toolkit)
containing detailed research about proposed projects and programs, and the rigorous analysis that has become TALC’s trademark.
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Why Now?
Transportation for a Livable Region
is scheduled to
be released in April of 2003, which will allow it to engage in the debate around several upcoming transportation events, including
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The release of ABAG's Regional Smart Growth Projections;
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Efforts to pass half-cent transportation sales taxes in
San Francisco, San Mateo, and Contra Costa counties, and possibly Marina and Sonoma as well; and
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MTC's 2004 update of the Regional Transportation Plan |
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Progress!
We are
currently in the process of writing the TLR report, and
finalizing the elements of the
Instant Advocate Toolkit! The final
draft of our platform of recommendations will be available
for review in early September 2003, and the report itself
will be available for review in late September or early
October 2003. Thanks to everyone who has already reviewed the
brainstormed list of projects-if you haven't looked through
the list, there is still time to get your opinion in before
we finalize the platform!
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Got Questions?
For more information about Transportation for a Livable
Region, please contact:
Amber Elizabeth Crabbe--amber@transcoalition.org--(510)750-3105.
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Or send us a comment online:
TLR
Comment Form
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Update:
10.03.03
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