Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Transit-Oriented Development

Podcast: Cleveland BRT's 10th Year

By Jeff Wood | Jan 10, 2019 | 1 Comment

This week, Cleveland RTA interim CEO Floun'say Caver and former CEO Joe Calabrese take a bow.

Sacramento's 23 light rail stations will have restrictions on what kind of development can happen nearby. Image: City of Sacramento

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Sacramento City Council Passes a Citywide TOD Ordinance

By Melanie Curry | Dec 14, 2018

City removes required parking minimums and restricts car-oriented uses near its light rail stations.

Minneapolis Moves to Eliminate Mandatory Parking

By Angie Schmitt | Dec 12, 2018 | 18 Comments

The end of single-family zoning rule has gotten all the attention. But Minneapolis's new plan is groundbreaking on transportation as well.

Bus rapid transit in Chrystal City. Photo: Dan Malouff/GGwash

Amazon’s Choice of Crystal City Powered by Good Transit

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 6, 2018 | 2 Comments

Good transit and a highly educated workforce make sense — but couldn't Amazon have spread the wealth instead of picking suburbs where it already has a large presence?

A vision for redeveloping the parking lots at Keybank Center, where the Buffalo Sabres play. Photos: Fred Frank

Buffalo May Turn Parking Craters into Neighborhoods

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 23, 2018 | 4 Comments

A city on the rise considers using its wasted space near transit for housing.

The vacant lots encompassing the 8400 and 8500 blocks on Vermont have held the community hostage to blight for over 26 years. The 8300 block (from which this photo was taken) had also remained vacant for a number of years and was originally going to be incorporated into the Vermont Entertainment Village project. In the mid-2000s, Eli Sasson sold off his 8300 block parcels (helping to doom the mall project) and the County services building rose on it instead in 2007. Source: County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas

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Transit Public School Set For Blighted L.A. Lots

By Sahra Sulaiman | Oct 22, 2018

For black stakeholders eager to shed the despised "Death Alley" label and address the damage rooted in segregationist policies, the stakes feel especially high

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