{"id":1444,"date":"2013-07-30T19:55:21","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T19:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mirror.lgc.org\/wordpress\/?p=1444"},"modified":"2015-01-06T17:50:41","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T01:50:41","slug":"building-transit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mirror.lgc.org\/wordpress\/building-transit","title":{"rendered":"Policymaker&#8217;s Guide to Transit-Oriented Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><a ref=\"magnificPopup\" href=\"http:\/\/lgc.org\/wordpress\/images\/freepub\/g_tod_cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/lgc.org\/wordpress\/images\/freepub\/g_tod_cover.jpg\" alt=\"Transit-Oriented Development Cover\" width=\"160\" height=\"122\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>Policymaker&#8217;s Guide to Transit-Oriented Development<\/h4>\n<p>Book<br \/>\nFree<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-align: left;\">ONLY AVAILABLE ONLINE<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lgc.org\/wordpress\/docs\/freepub\/community_design\/guides\/blc_tod_dev_guidebook_1999.pdf\">Download PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Before you plan, design or build it, order your copy of &#8220;A Policymaker&#8217;s Guide to Transit-Oriented Development&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Center for Livable Communities has followed up its instructive &#8220;Building Livable Communities&#8221; guidebook on infill development with a companion volume on transit-oriented development.<\/p>\n<p>More and more, community leaders are recognizing that building residences, stores and work places near transit stops can play a major role in creating places where we enjoy living, working and playing.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the questions of &#8220;why build near transit&#8221; and &#8220;why should elected officials, land use agencies and developers pay more attention to development near transit than to any other kind of development,&#8221; this new 84-page guidebook is filled with helpful advice, model examples, and resources to help create livable, transit-oriented communities in your region.<\/p>\n<p>The guidebook includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Economic, social and environmental reasons for building near transit.<\/li>\n<li>The elements that make for good transit development: land use, site design, and pedestrian\/transit facilities.<\/li>\n<li>A summary of some of the best implementation tools.<\/li>\n<li>Options for financing transit-oriented development.<\/li>\n<li>Helpful examples of model transit-oriented developments from across the country.<\/li>\n<li>Extensive description of resources to help your community.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Authors:<\/strong>\u00a0Judy Corbett and Paul Zykofsky<br \/>\n<strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0August 1999, Second Printing<br \/>\n<strong>Pages:<\/strong>\u00a077<br \/>\n<strong>SKU:<\/strong>\u00a0TOD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Policymaker&#8217;s Guide to Transit-Oriented Development Book Free<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[29,32],"class_list":["post-1444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resource","tag-community-design","tag-guidebooks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mirror.lgc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mirror.lgc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mirror.lgc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mirror.lgc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mirror.lgc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1444"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/mirror.lgc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6268,"href":"http:\/\/mirror.lgc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions\/6268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mirror.lgc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mirror.lgc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mirror.lgc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}