It Takes a Transit Village
How Better Planning Can Save the Bay Area Billions of Dollars and Ease the Housing Shortage
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A coalition of environmental, transit, and housing groups launched a new effort on November 12, 2004 to condition over $12 billion of new transit investments on cities approving significant housing and designing walkable communities around existing and future transit stations. Cities that want to continue putting big-box retail and regional malls in these “Transit Opportunity Zones” would no longer be eligible to receive regional funding for transit expansions, if the Metropolitan Transportation Commission agrees to the policy.