Smart Growth in the Bay Area: Five (Not So) Easy Pieces

1. Smart Growth in the Bay Area: Five (Not So) Easy Pieces Steve Heminger, Executive Director Metropolitan Transportation Commission Partners in Planning Conference April 11, 2003

2. Follow the Money

3. Regional Transportation Plans Top 19 Metropolitan AreasAverage Expenditures • 1 Transit 35% • Operations and Maintenance • 2 Transit 15% • Expansion • 3 Road 28% • Operations and Maintenance • 4 Road 21% • Expansion • 5 Other 1% Source: FHWA, 2002

4. Regional Transportation Plans Top 19 Metropolitan AreasOperations and Maintenance vs. Expansion Source: FHWA, 2002

5. We’ve Been Working on the Railroad

6. Resolution No. 1876

7. Resolution No. 3434 Map of Projects

8. Resolution No. 3434 Service Characteristics • 140 new route miles of rail • 600 new route miles of express bus • 58% average increase in service levels for existing corridors • 38.6 million new riders per year (estimated for fully funded projects) • Average cost effectiveness of $20.35 per new rider (estimated for fully funded projects)

9. TLC

10. Overview of TLC Program • Purpose • Link transportation investments with land-use decisions • Forge partnerships with a diversity of community stakeholders • Create transit-, bicycle-, and pedestrian-oriented projects • Support livable communities Stockton Street in San Francisco’s Chinatown

11. Rendering of Coliseum BART station area revitalization project Plans for Guadelupe River Park Trail in San Jose Mixed-use Dublin Transit Center with high-density housing and retail Overview of TLC Program(continued) • TLC offers three kinds of funding assistance Planning Grants • Planning Grants • Capital Grants • Housing Incentive Program (HIP) • Projects funded to date • 49 planning projects at $1.7 million • 59 capital projects at $48.6 million • 31 HIP projects at $9 million

12. Planning Grant Program • Funds community planning, outreach, and conceptual design for transportation projects related to community development • Grants range from $5,000 to $75,000 • Local match is required • Project criteria emphasize community outreach, concept designs/plans that promote walking, bike, and transit trips, and connections to housing and mixed-use development • Grant Cycle: $500,000 in local TDA funds available for programming per cycle Community planning in Richmond Public involvementin Sebastopol

13. Rendering of Unity Plazain downtown Vallejo Coggins Square walkway to Pleasant Hill BART Capital Grant Program • Funds design and construction of streetscape and transit-, bike-, and pedestrian-oriented projects that are part of a larger community development effort • Grants range from $150,000 to $2 million • Local match of 11.5% of total TLC project cost is required • Project criteria emphasize community involvement, connections to housing and mixed-use development, and quality of project design • Grant Cycle: $9 million in federal STP, CMAQ, and TEA funds available for programming per cycle

14. New multi-family housing in the east Bay Area New multi-family housing in the east Bay Area Housing at the proposed Dublin Transit Center Housing at the proposed Dublin Transit Center Housing Incentive Program • HIP grants awarded to local agencies that plan and build compact, transit-oriented housing • Proposed housing must be within 1/3 mile of major transit station with service intervals of 15 minutes or less during peak commute times • Number of units per acre determines total grant award: • 25 units/acre: $1000 per bedroom • 40 units/acre: $1,500 per bedroom • 60 units/acre: $2,000 per bedroom • HIP funds are spent on TLC capital projects anywhere within the applicant’s jurisdiction • Grant Cycle: $9 million in federal STP, CMAQ, and TEA funds available for programming per cycle * Additional $500 per bedroom awarded to affordable units

15. Regional Visions

16. Smart Growth Strategy Total Population GrowthPercentage Change2000–2040 Source: California Department of Finance

17. Smart Growth Strategy In-CommutingThousands of commuters from outside the Bay Area Source: 1990 & 2000 Census, MTC Forecasts 2020 1990 2000

18. Smart Growth Strategy The Alternatives in Black and White • These maps show in bold relief the impacts of the three smart growth alternatives — as well as the Current Trends Base Case — on urbanization in the Bay Area in the year 2020. They indicate primary areas of change in each alternative and the Base Case, including redevelopment of already developed areas (“infill”) and construction on currently undeveloped lands (“greenfields”).

19. Smart Growth Strategy Open Space

20. Smart Growth Strategy Air Quality

21. Smart Growth Strategy Transportation

22. Renewing The Vows

23. MTC/CMA Partnership on Transportation/Land Use Integration • Builds on decade of success implementing flexible funding and multi-modal transportation planning. • Acknowledges CMA statutory role in mitigating effects of land use decisions on roadway network. • Respects local control of land use decisions, but engages local officials on CMA boards in new activities.

24. Potential Work Program • Incentives–expanded or redefined TLC/HIP programs • Mitigation–explore strategies to reinforce CMA statutory mandate • Planning–corridor or station areas plans to implement Smart Growth Vision and Resolution No. 3434

25. Best Practices–growing list of examples at BART, Caltrain, and VTA rail stations • Housing Needs–dialogue with ABAG about delegation to willing CMAs, as in Los Angeles Region