Comments on: NJ Expands Urban Transit Hub Tax Credit http://blog.tstc.org/2009/07/02/nj-expands-urban-transit-hub-tax-credit/ News and opinion from the Tri-State Transportation Campaign Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:36:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Newark at night: It's not a surprise anymore that the city is alive after dark - New Jersey (NJ) - Page 5 - City-Data Forum http://blog.tstc.org/2009/07/02/nj-expands-urban-transit-hub-tax-credit/comment-page-1/#comment-1325 Newark at night: It's not a surprise anymore that the city is alive after dark - New Jersey (NJ) - Page 5 - City-Data Forum Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:00:34 +0000 http://blog.tstc.org/?p=5616#comment-1325 [...] [...] [...] [...]

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]]> By: Thomas Marchwinski http://blog.tstc.org/2009/07/02/nj-expands-urban-transit-hub-tax-credit/comment-page-1/#comment-1327 Thomas Marchwinski Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:39:59 +0000 http://blog.tstc.org/?p=5616#comment-1327 I note that the bill specifically excludes development at Newark Airport, which may include the Airport station on the NEC. Not clear if the station is excluded, my reading is that the station is excluded. IT also appears to allow some credit for residential development, if it meets the $50 million minimum, unless I am reading this wrong. This will also extend the amount of area covered to include major new parts of Hudson County (ie LRT stations), and in Newark as shown above. Overall this is good, however, getting out to a mile starts to water down the impact of transit. By this definition, the auto centric Campbell Soup expansion in Camden gets a credit, whereas before it did not. This site is almost impossible to walk to from Rand Transportation Center.Further expansion to a one mile radius starts to lose the relationship to transit, 1 mile is not a walkable distance (about a 20 minute walk vs. 10 minute for 1/2 mile radius). I hope TSTC monitors this. Also, any new development should be required to undertake a survey of any project that is built to document what the impact on transit ridership is. That way we can monitor what the impacts of the program are. Unfortunatly there are a lot of requirments in the legislation, but nothing requires showing what the impact on transit is of a Urban Transit Hub credit. Maybe future versions can include this provision. " Within 2 years of the investment, a statistically valid survey of workers and residents will be conducted to doucment the impact of the project on weekday transit ridership on all modes as well as other transportation modes such as walking, biking, and auto useage. There also should be an allowance to waive up to 10% of local municipal parking requirements for employee or resident parking based on the fact these areas have high transit usage and building more parking is a burden to having development near transit. I note that the bill specifically excludes development at Newark Airport, which may include the Airport station on the NEC. Not clear if the station is excluded, my reading is that the station is excluded. IT also appears to allow some credit for residential development, if it meets the $50 million minimum, unless I am reading this wrong. This will also extend the amount of area covered to include major new parts of Hudson County (ie LRT stations), and in Newark as shown above. Overall this is good, however, getting out to a mile starts to water down the impact of transit. By this definition, the auto centric Campbell Soup expansion in Camden gets a credit, whereas before it did not. This site is almost impossible to walk to from Rand Transportation Center.Further expansion to a one mile radius starts to lose the relationship to transit, 1 mile is not a walkable distance (about a 20 minute walk vs. 10 minute for 1/2 mile radius). I hope TSTC monitors this. Also, any new development should be required to undertake a survey of any project that is built to document what the impact on transit ridership is. That way we can monitor what the impacts of the program are. Unfortunatly there are a lot of requirments in the legislation, but nothing requires showing what the impact on transit is of a Urban Transit Hub credit. Maybe future versions can include this provision. ” Within 2 years of the investment, a statistically valid survey of workers and residents will be conducted to doucment the impact of the project on weekday transit ridership on all modes as well as other transportation modes such as walking, biking, and auto useage.
There also should be an allowance to waive up to 10% of local municipal parking requirements for employee or resident parking based on the fact these areas have high transit usage and building more parking is a burden to having development near transit.

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