For cities with regular transit service, require or provide incentives for the siting of retail services at transit/density nodes.
Best Practice of this action
Rating Guideline
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Identify priority transit/density nodes, ensure that retail is a permitted use, require housing projects at these locations to have a mixed use retail component; ensure transit amenities adjacent to retail (indoor waiting areas, real-time schedule displays, etc.); locate new farmer's markets at nodes. |
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Identify priority transit/density nodes, ensure that retail is a permitted use, offer financial or regulatory incentives for retail development at those locations that are not offered elsewhere. |
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Make retail development a conditional use at locations other than transit/density nodes, condition being that retail must demonstrate transit or density connectivity (exempt certain types of retail, such as gas stations). |
Resources
- Infrastructure Financing Options for Transit-Oriented Development (US EPA: 2013).
- Guide for Transit-Oriented Development (Metropolitan Council: 2006).
- Mixed Income Transit-Oriented Development Action Guide (Center for Transit-Oriented Development, Federal Transit Administration).
- Regular transit (as opposed to dial-a-ride service) includes fixed route service and deviated fixed-route service (where buses may stray roughly 1 miles from a fixed route): established times and stops available at least 9 hours/day, 5 days/week.
Order Number
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