The planning, implementation, and performance of the equitable transit-oriented development (ETOD) is still evolving across the U.S. While the focus of this panel centers on experiences of Texas-based transit agencies, their perspective on how to effectively campaign, fund, and plan for ETOD is exemplary of the challenges and opportunities planners face across the country.
The discussion will help planners understand the evolution of ETOD, navigate political waters with competing interests, and identify ways transit agencies have built long-standing partnerships with host communities and community-based organizations to advance housing, workforce, economic, and mobility investments.
Specific engagement practices, marketing campaigns, comprehensive statistics, storytelling, and key implementation tactics will be discussed. This presentation will offer solutions on:
1. How planners and transit agencies can take deliberate actions to better engage community members in the delivery of mobility resources through a combination of traditional grassroots activism and top-down government reform 2. How planners can apply ETOD to reinvent ways to increase access and opportunity to affordable housing, transportation, jobs, goods, and essential needs 3. How planners can advance and measures performance of anti-displacement, workforce housing, small-business protections, placekeeping, and universal mobility initiatives 4. How to build public-private partnerships dedicated to ETOD and related programs
Understand how public transit agencies have partnered with municipalities to adopt new land use policies to advance transit oriented development.
Learn about how transit agencies have overcome legislative, social, and political barriers to affordable, anti-displacement measures within a conservative environment
Learn innovative tools and methods to engagement, policy planning, and decision-making practices that prioritizes community involvement from start to finish during the TOD process
