Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Transit-Oriented Development

De Blasio Team Gradually Beefing Up Its Parking Reform Proposals

By Stephen Miller | Feb 24, 2015 | 20 Comments

New York is one step closer to overhauling a discredited policy that drives up the cost of housing and makes traffic congestion worse, but the scope of the reforms the de Blasio administration is pursuing remains limited. Last week, the Department of City Planning came out with the broad strokes of a major update to […]

Planning For Growth and Safer Streets at Bronx Metro-North Stations

By Stephen Miller | Aug 28, 2014 | 6 Comments

Once the MTA’s East Side Access project is finally complete, a few additional upgrades will allow Metro-North’s New Haven Line trains to stop at new stations in the East Bronx and cross the Hell Gate Bridge before heading to Penn Station. The Bronx is also expected to grow faster than any other borough in the coming years. With both […]

De Blasio Housing Plan Meekly Suggests Parking Reform

By Ben Fried | May 7, 2014 | 20 Comments

There’s a deep connection between parking policy and housing affordability. The more space New York devotes to car storage, the less space is available to house people. And yet, 50 year old laws mandating the construction of parking in new residential development persist in most of the city, driving up construction costs and hampering the […]

Restricting Housing Near Transit Won’t Make NYC More Affordable

By Stephen Miller | Feb 3, 2014 | 31 Comments

Weeks into his first term on the City Council, Antonio Reynoso is beginning to negotiate the tricky politics of housing and development in the neighborhoods he represents. So far, it’s tough to decipher whether his office will support the construction of walkable, transit-accessible housing that New York needs in order to keep the cost of […]

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ITDP Study: “A Coming Out for Bus-Based Transit-Oriented Development”

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 26, 2013 | No Comments

In a new report making the rounds this week, “More Development For Your Transit Dollar: An Analysis of 21 North American Transit Corridors,” the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy does two things. First, authors Walter Hook, Stephanie Lotshaw, and Annie Weinstock evaluate which factors determine the impact of urban transit on development, coming up […]

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How to Sell Developers and Employers on Transit-Oriented Development

By Tanya Snyder | Aug 27, 2013 | No Comments

Developers and employers think transit access is great. But if the hurdles are too high, they’ll forgo it — choosing locations that shackle people to car dependence. That’s the finding of a recent report by University of Minnesota researchers Yingling Fan and Andrew Guthrie. Fan and Guthrie propose a number of policy changes for the […]

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