The TOD Marketplace 2007 Report summarizes all the presented plans and each ULI Panel's recommendations.
MTC, ABAG, Reconnecting America, the Urban Land Institute, and The Non-Profit Housing
Association of Northern California co-sponsor an annual TOD Marketplace, connecting
city planners with developers who can help them realize their vision. In addition to
a context-setting panel and case studies on successful plans, the 2007 TOD Marketplace
featured six Bay Area cities presenting their plans to a team of development
professionals and the audience. The workshop-style event gives city planners the
opportunity to get immediate, dynamic feedback on the feasibility and potential of
making their plan a reality.
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Agenda
2007 Featured Cities
ULI San Francisco has organized tours of seven Bay Area TOD sites. To learn more about
these tours, please click on the links below.
City Descriptions:
San Pablo
This six-part series kicked-off in the East Bay City of San Pablo. City Planning Manager Avanindra Gangapuram took us on a walking tour of the City's 23rd Street corridor to show us the existing conditions of the 22-acres of opportunity sites-mostly single-owner shallow lots. The corridor benefits from transportation access (both to the Richmond and El Cerrito BART stations and also to the freeway through two access points). The City is seeking new market-rate housing and commercial development along this neighborhood commercial corridor.
Richmond
The second event in this TOD tour series took place in the East Bay City of Richmond. The City's Redevelopment Agency Project Manager Gary Hembree and Principal Planner Joe Light took us on a walking tour of the City's Transit Village. This successful urban redevelopment project is located on approximately 16.7 acres and is centered on the Richmond BART and Amtrak Station. The City is now seeking input on Phase II and how to best link the site with the Civic Center area along Nevin Street.
Fairfield
City Planner Brian Miller took us on a walking tour of the City's Main Street and Bus Transfer Station at West Texas/North Texas streets. Since the 1980s, this aging commercial corridor has been impacted significantly by competing commercial districts such as the Solano Mall. The City faces a number of challenges in revitalizing this site, including how to ensure that a new bus transfer station sparks TOD growth rather than increasing blight. As Solano County develops at rapid rates, this site and its transportation growth will become increasingly important.
Santa Clara / San Jose
The fourth tour in the series took place in the heart of Silicon Valley. City representatives from both cities took us on a walking tour of the 432 acre transit site (roughly 1.3 miles by 0.5 miles) that straddles the boundary between the cities of Santa Clara and San Jose. At the center of this site is the Santa Clara Transit Center, the City's current Caltrain ACE, and VTA station, which has over 1,400 and 2,300 daily boardings respectively. This will also be the site for the new Santa Clara BART station, which is projected to be one of the busiest in the corridor. The two cities hope to work together to develop Santa Clara Transit Center Station into a vibrant destination where people desire to live, work, dine, shop and be entertained.
More background available at: www.santaclarasap.com/workingpapers.php
Fremont
City Planner Jeff Schwob will take us on a walking tour of the City's BART station area. This site, currently an "end of the line" station that BART plans to extend southward, is zoned for mixed use development. Many sites around the station area have potential for intensified office and retail development. There are a number of conflicting opinions and interests surrounding this site; while BART's interest lies largely in housing and some service retail development in this area, the community interests span from a desire for increased parking to seismic concerns due to station's proximity to the Hayward fault.
Santa Rosa
For the final tour in our TOD series, we will be going to the City of Santa Rosa's Downtown Railroad Square, which is also the location for the City's future SMART station. The City's Downtown area has witnessed economic decline relative to Santa Rosa on the whole. Two-thirds of the plan area is located within one of the City's five established redevelopment project areas. The City hopes to re-brand its Downtown as a favorable location for retail, cultural, and restaurant uses, market rate housing, and office uses attracted to the Downtown environment.
For more details on the site, please see the Santa Rosa Draft Downtown Area Specific Plan, available at: www.stationareaplan.net
Proceedings of the 2006 TOD Marketplace
For additional information, contact Marisa Cravens
510-464-7926 . marisac@abag.ca.gov
