Getting from today to TOD – Adjoining land uses
by Fred Davis, on Flickr I’ve recently written about the challenges of transitioning from a car-dependent drivable suburban land-use pattern to the walkable urban pattern of a transit-oriented...
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by rosipaw, on Flickr When I was in third grade, I posed a question to my father. “If time is the fourth dimension, then what’s the fifth dimension?” This would have been in 1962, so I wasn’t asking...
View ArticleFrom today to TOD – Impact fees
Walkable Downtown. Photo from the author. Over the past few weeks, I’ve written about the hurdles of converting from drivable suburban to walkable urban, with particular reference to the pending...
View ArticleFrom today to TOD – The next steps
View at E. Washington and Lakeville Streets A few years ago, a poll was taken about which planning departments in the Sacramento area were the most responsive and helpful. The City of Sacramento came...
View ArticleBART TOD: The range of alternatives
View from Pleasant Hill BART Station The Petaluma Station Area plan will be taken up by the Petaluma City Council on Monday, May 6. If you care about urbanism, it would be a good meeting to attend....
View ArticleBART TOD: Design matters
First block from Amtrak/BART station In my last two posts (here and here), I wrote about a recent visit to transit-oriented developments (TODs) on the BART system. The outing, in which I was joined by...
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