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Municipalities interested in transit-oriented development: This could be you! (Photo of award ceremony at Stratford, CT.) This Friday is the deadline for municipalities to submit letters of interest for the Tri-State Transportation Campaign/One Region Funders’ Group’s Transit-Oriented Development community assistance grant program. The program provides grants between $10,000 and $50,000 for municipalities interested [...]
Our friends over at the Long Island Index have launched a new website as part of their Build a Better Burb project. In addition to being really, really sleek, the website has tons of information about Long Island downtowns, short backgrounders on transit-oriented development, and lots of profiles of [...] Stratford plans to reorganize the area around its rail station and promote transit-oriented development. (Click to view larger.) Last week, Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy announced the approval of the state’s first ever transit-oriented development assistance grants. During the Rell administration, Tri-State advocated for over three years for the release of $5 million that [...] A conceptual image of what a transit-oriented development near the Ronkonkoma LIRR station could look like. A promising transit-oriented development project around the Ronkonkoma LIRR station in Suffolk County seems to be moving forward, thanks to an unusual amount of cooperation between two bordering municipalities. The Town of Brookhaven (which includes the station [...]  A rendering of what the development could look like, from the Harrison Station Conceptual Master Plan. This summer, the MTA/Metro-North put out its first ever Request for Proposals for transit-oriented development (TOD). Branded “It’s Happening in Harrison,” this project involves transforming 3.28 acres of surface parking adjacent to Westchester County’s Harrison train station [...] As we reported last week, NJDOT’s proposed fiscal year 2012 Capital Plan currently eliminates all funding for New Jersey’s Transit Village program; however, there may be a glimmer of hope that the money for this program will be reinstated. Prompted by NJ Future during an April 7 roundtable discussion at TransAction, a statewide transportation [...] http://www.vimeo.com/19836629 In Streetfilms’ latest video, Tri-State’s Kate Slevin and NJ Future’s Pete Kasabach explain some of the factors behind the success of transit-oriented development in northern New Jersey. The film is the first in a multi-part series called Moving Beyond the Automobile. Areas like Jersey City and Hoboken are blessed with myriad transit options including [...] The competition entries range from neighborhood-level interventions to downtown plans and regional visions. The Long Island Index recently announced the 23 finalists from its “Build a Better Burb” competition. The competition challenged architects, urban designers, planners, students, visionaries and everyone else interested in shaping the future of Long Island to come up with [...] Left to right: Ashley Sklar of the Emily Tremaine Foundation, Yolanda Caldera-Durant of the Fairfield County Community Foundation, Veronica Vanterpool of TSTC, Stratford Mayor James Miron. Yesterday, Tri-State and the One Region Funders’ Group issued the largest of the eight grants in their transit-oriented development (TOD) grant program to the Town of Stratford [...]  The town of Brookhaven will use its grant for an environmental review of its plan to develop around the Ronkonkoma LIRR station. A community visioning process to identify ways to reuse the old Department of Public Works site next to the Ossining Train Station. Changing city ordinances to allow denser development at key locations along Newark’s successful Springfield Ave bus rapid transit “GoBus” route. These are two of the eight projects that will receive funding via the One Region Funders Group, The Fund for New Jersey, and the Tri-State Transportation Campaign’s community assistance grants program announced today. The grants will help towns promote residential and commercial development within a half-mile of bus or rail stations, a concept otherwise known as transit-oriented development. Grants range from $10,000 to $50,000, and the eight winners were selected from over 40 applicants. The Westchester, Long Island, and New Jersey grants were announced today, with funds going to Mount Vernon, Ossining, and Peekskill in Westchester; Babylon and Brookhaven in Long Island; and Newark and Trenton in New Jersey. The Connecticut grant will be announced at a public event next week. The program is supported by The Fund for New Jersey and the One Region Funders’ Group, a partnership of private funders including the Westchester Community Foundation, Surdna Foundation, Fairfield County Community Foundation, Long Island Community Foundation, New York Community Trust, Rauch Foundation, and the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation. The descriptions of winning projects and quotes from recipient town officials, as well as the many applicants we unfortunately could not fund, show that interest in transit-oriented development is strong throughout the region. (Project descriptions and quotes below:) » Continue reading… |
 
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