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- Accessory Dwelling Units -- Make it easier to build or legalize accessory dwelling units (also known as "secondary," "in-law," or "granny" units) to increase the amount of housing in your community.
- Bike Infrastructure Campaigns -- Learn how to fight for the right kind of infrastructure improvements in your community to increase the safety and appeal of bicycling!
- Bike Sharing --
- Bike Stations -- The safest and most secure kind of bicycle parking is an attended bike station--learn where they make sense and how to fight for one!
- Bike-to-Work Day -- Join the rest of the nation during the second week of May and get a bike-to-work day started in your community!
- Bus Shelter Improvements --
- Car-Free Day -- Organize a dedicated day or event to celebrate the joys of car-free living, or to show people they can live without their car!
- Carpool Ridematching Services --
- Car-Sharing -- Start your own car-sharing program, or attract an existing car-sharing organization to your community!
- Casual Carpooling --
- Charging Market Prices for Parking --
- Childcare Transportation Shuttles -- Help low-income parents stay in the workforce by providing safe and reliable transportation for their children between home and school, daycare, or after-school activities.
- Community Development Block Grants --
- Commuter Choice --
- Congestion Pricing and HOT Lanes --
- Conservation Easements --
- Development Exactions/Development Impact Fees --
- Do-It-Yourself Carpooling and Vanpooling --
- Employee Transit Pass (Eco-Pass) --
- Guaranteed Ride Home --
- Housing Incentives Program -- Learn about the Bay Area's innovative program to encourage housing construction near transit and how to bring a similar program to your community.
- Incentive Zoning --
- Inclusionary Housing -- If your community has a shortage of affordable housing, an inclusionary housing requirement can offer incentives to developers to build it for you.
- Infill Opportunity Zones -- If you are struggling to make infill development financially feasible in your community, you may qualify for flexibility in state requirements by getting classified as an infill opportunity zone!
- Lifeline Transit Guidelines -- Prioritize funding for transportation in your community that allows low-income or transit-dependent people to carry out essential daily activities.
- Low-Income Youth Transit Pass --
- Multipurpose Sales Tax --
- Parking Cash-Out --
- Pedestrian Infrastructure Campaigns -- Learn how to fight for the right kind of infrastructure improvements in your community to increase the safety and appeal of walking!
- Promote Transit Fare Equity -- Work to move your local transit provider toward a fare structure that is unbiased with respect to social, economic, or physical conditions.
- Reduce/Eliminate Parking Requirements --
- Safe Routes to School -- Encourage students to walk or bicycle to school, and your whole community can become a safer, healthier place to live!
- Safe Routes to Transit --
- Shuttle Bus Systems --
- Split Rate Property Tax -- Encourage revitilization and redevelopment by introducing split rate property taxes, which tax land at a higher rate than the building and construction on that land.
- Telecommuting --
- Traffic Calming --
- Traffic Safety Campaigns -- Is unsafe driving a problem in your community? This tool will show you how to educate drivers and raise awareness about the importance of driving safely.
- Transfer of Development Rights --
- Transit-First Planning and Funding Policies -- Convince your community to make transit and other sustainable modes of transportation a funding priority by adopting and enforcing a transit-first policy.
- Transportation for a Livable Community Grants -- Learn about the Bay Area's innovative livability grant program and how to bring a similar program to your community.
- Transportation-Efficient Mortgages -- Encourage homebuyers to locate close to transit (and use their automobiles less) by offering them more favorable financing in "transit efficient" neighborhoods.
- Universal Fare Cards (Translink) -- Persuade your regional transportation authority to provide a universal farecard, or a one-card pass that works on many or all forms of local transit.
- University Transit Passes --
- Urban Growth Boundaries / Urban Limit Lines --
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