1. TOD and Health:Strategies and Policy Opportunities Partners in Innovation Denver, CO September 27, 2010
2. 2 Who We Are National research and action institute advancing economic and social equity by lifting up what works Center for Health and Place Center for Infrastructure Equity
7. 5 The Dilemma of Improving Distressed Neighborhoods Components of Healthy Neighborhoods/TODs Impact on Housing Prices Transportation access Economic opportunities Parks Safe streets Grocery stores Shopping and services Arts and culture Quality schools + + + + + + + +
8. Strategies to Maximize Health Equity through TOD Ensure access Central Corridor, Saint Paul: Stops for Us! campaign Sources: Alliance for Metropolitan Stability (left):Frogtown/Rondo Action Network Blog (right)
9. Strategies to Maximize Health Equity through TOD Community engagement in TOD planning Westside Alliance/FRESC, Denver:Community Principles - La Alma/ Lincoln Park Station Area Plan ISAIAH/Take Action/PolicyLink: Central Corridor HIA Great Communities Collaborative, Bay Area
10. Strategies to Maximize Health Equity through TOD Community-led TOD Bethel Center, Chicago Fruitvale Transit Village, Oakland Source:Unity Council Source: Bethel New Life
11. Strategies to Maximize Health Equity through TOD Secure community benefits NoHo Commons, Los Angeles: local hire, living wage, job training, child care, affordable housing Railroad Square, Santa Rosa: green design, living wages, 15% affordable homes
12. Strategies to Maximize Health Equity through TOD Commercial stabilization and healthy retail development Mission Corridor, San Francisco: Study of Zoning Impacts LINK Rail Extension, Seattle: $50 million fund for smallbusiness stabilization 7th Street West Oakland BART:Mandela Foods Cooperative
18. Contact Information Sarah Treuhaft Senior Associate, PolicyLink (510) 663-4325 sarah@policylink.org www.policylink.org
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Bethel New Life – Plans to close the green line, community organized around it
regional planningstation area and transit corridor planning,TOD project planning
Bethel New Life has been a leading faith-based community development organization in the West Garfield Park neighborhood for over two decades. When the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) proposed discontinuing Green Line train service through the neighborhood, Bethel New Life realized how valuable their local Lake Pulaski transit stop was to the low-income community. For years, the group had been fighting to keep the station open. Launched a series of development projects in partnership with CTA, opening Bethel Center, a $4.5 million mixed-use facility, in 2005 after 10 years of ground work that included organizing, advocacy, lobbying, and planning. To date, the CDC has built 50 homes within walking distance of the Lake Pulaski station that are affordable to low- and moderate-income homebuyers. The TOD also includes stores, a community technology center, child care services, and a financial literacy center. Bethel Center incorporates a focus on green building design, and is registered under the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Green Building Rating System. Plans to add 66 new affordable condominium units and construct a Lake Pulaski Commercial Center on the site of an old building facing the transit stop.
Community benefits coalitions often secure multiple commitments around TODs. The Valley Jobs Coalition and LAANE, for example, negotiated a CBA around the $200 million NoHo Commons mixed-use, mixed-income development around the North Hollywood Red Line Subway Station in Los Angeles that creates an extensive local hiring system, ensures that 75 percent of jobs pay a living wage, provides job training programs and child care, and constructs 162 affordable housing units, including 28 for very low-income residents. CBAs can require and fund studies of how the TOD and other development efforts will impact land prices and low-income residents in the neighborhood. The Ballpark CBA in San Diego included such a provision.
Transit line going through region’s principal immigrant POC nhsCity commitment to preserving existing nh businesses is genuineActive integration of nh planning process into master plan$50m community development fund targets business preservation