Building Support for Transit-Oriented Development: Do Community Engagement Toolkits Work?

2009

By: Erin Machell, Karen Chapple, Troy Reinhalter, University of California, Berkeley

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Transit-Oriented Development

This report evaluates the efficacy of common community engagement tools that planners use to build support for transit-oriented development (TOD). It presents the results of focus-group research suggesting that building trust, humanizing the message, and respecting local context are the most important success factors, regardless of the specific engagement tools.