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Howard County, MD, Zoning Regulations
July 2023This regulation codifies TOD districts and the development and redevelopment standards in key parcels laid out in (§127.4) that are required to be within 3,500 feet of a station. -
Charoltte, NC, Unified Development Ordinance
March 2024This regulation details how in §13 TOD zoning districts are regulated operate, and what the purpose of them is. -
Transforming the Urban Space through Transit-Oriented Development: The 3V Approach
Understanding Poverty Transport, 2017by: Serge Salat, Gerald OllivierThis report details the how Transit Oriented Development (TOD) can not only create livable and place based communities, but also reduce CO2 emissions, lower transit costs, and housing costs. -
Transit Oriented Development for A More Climate Resilient Connecticut
July 2022This report details the research and analysis of challenges and obstacles that presented themselves along the Metro-North New Haven Main Line. -
SEPTA Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Policy Research
January 2020This report is ways that SEPTA through research can support and promote transit oriented development in the Greater Philadelphia area. -
Promoting Transit-Oriented Developments by Addresssng Barriers Related to Land Use, Zoning, and Value Capture
October 2020by: Shishir Mathur, Aaron Gatdula, AICPThis reports main focus is to promote and advance transit-oriented development by identifying land use, zoning and value capture barriers that impede TOD development. -
From Transactional to Transformative: The Case for Equity in Gateway City Transit-Oriented Development
May 2020by: Tracy Corley, PhD, Ben Forman, Elizabeth Haney, Catherine TumberThis report details how uneven growth patterns and investment by businesses and cities have deepened inequities across race, class and cultures can be rectified by Transformative Transit Oriented Development (TTOD). -
Financing Transit Oriented Development by Value Capture
June 2019by: Erwin Krabben, Ary Samsura, Jinshuo WangThis report details how transit oriented development was garnered as the savior for cities that were auto-dependent, but cities are struggling to finance and effective integrated policy for TOD. -
Financing the Development in Transit-Oriented Development
April 2018by: Leiha EdmondsThis report details how Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI's) can help promote and implement Transit Oriented Development for cities. -
Does Zoning Help or Hinder Transit Oriented (Re)Development?
March 2016by: Jenny Schuetz, Genevieve Giuliano, Eun Jin ShinThis report analyzes the Los Angeles built environment as well as city zoning codes to see whether these are hindering or helping transit oriented development around its existing rail lines. -
MTC [San Francisco, CA] Transit-Oriented Communities Policy
September 2023This standalone policy promotes the Transit-Oriented Communities Policy's goals which are increased overall housing supply, increased density around hubs, prioritize bus transit, and support and build partnerships. -
Transit Oriented Development Policy
April 2020This standalone policy promotes and discusses the tactics that BART employs when acquiring and working with communities that the transit agency services. -
Equitable Transit-Oriented Development Policy Plan
March 2023This standalone policy is a comprehensive framework put out by the City of Austin to help promote and direct development around the Project Connect transit system. -
Los Angeles, CA, Slauson Corridor Transit Neighborhood Plan
2022This sub area plan is to improve and identify land use, zoning, and urban design strategies along the Blue, Silver, and Crenshaw lines to further the Transit Neighborhood Plan. -
Virginia Code
2023This statute required in § 15.2-2223.4 that transit oriented development be included in the comprehensive planning process for cities greater than 20,000 residents and counties greater than 100,000 residents. -
What is Transit Oriented Development?
January 2021This video discusses what and how transit oriented development is situated around transit stations to produce the best possible outcome. -
ITDP What is TOD?
2024This web page is meant for planners and residents to understand and score transit oriented development as well as define TOD. -
Kettering, OH, Zoning Code
Updated June 2023The city’s zoning code includes sign regulations amended in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Reed v. Town of Gilbert. -
Updating Your Comprehensive Plan: 50 Recommendations for Making Plan Updates More Effective
April 2003by: Maine State Planning OfficeThis guide was developed by the Maine State Planning Office to help communities update their comprehensive plans. -
State Funded Outdoor Lighting Regulations
2022This model code dictates local ordinances and codes regulating outdoor lighting regulate for codes to use the Texas Model Outdoor Lighting Ordinance as a basis. -
Design Lights Consortium Outdoor Lighting Ordinances
April 2024This interactive map details which cities in all 50 states have enacted outdoor lighting ordinances. -
Park City, UT, Municipal Code
November 2023This regulation is to regulate the lighting practices and systems that promote and create light pollution for a uniformed ordinance in §15-5-5.J. -
Design Lights Consortium Sample Language for Light Pollution Mitigation Bylaws and Ordinances
April 2023This model ordinance provides a framework to help cities, towns, and counties draft outdoor lighting regulations. -
HUD User Datasets
Updated May 2024This web page contains links to all datasets available through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, a common public data source for housing supply planning. -
Housing Vacancies and Homeownership (CPS/HVS)
Updated January 2020This web page introduces the Housing Vacancies and Homeownership (CPS/HVS), a program of the U.S. Census Bureau and a common public data source for housing supply planning. -
Philadelphia, PA, Housing for Equity: An Action Plan for Philadelphia
Adopted October 2018This functional plan belongs to the Affordable Housing Programs and Housing Supply Planning collections. -
Westminster, CO, Affordable and Workforce Housing Strategic Plan
Adopted October 2017This functional plan shares recommendations developed by the Housing Task Force of Westminster, Colorado, to address the needs identified in the city’s housing needs assessment. -
American Community Survey (ACS)
Updated May 2024This web page introduces the American Community Survey (ACS), a program of the U.S. Census Bureau and a common public data source for housing supply planning. -
Decennial Census of Population and Housing
Updated May 2024This web page introduces the Decennial Census of Population and Housing, a program of the U.S. Census Bureau and a common public data source for housing supply planning. -
American Housing Survey (AHS)
Updated February 2024This web page introduces the American Housing Survey (AHS), a program of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Census Bureau and a common public data source for housing supply planning. -
Building Permits Survey
Updated May 2024This web page introduces the Building Permits Survey, a program of the U.S. Census Bureau and a common public data source for housing supply planning. -
Housing Landscape Portal
Updated 2016This web page includes national, state, and metropolitan area fact sheets on housing affordability by the National Housing Conference. -
Broward County, FL, Housing Broward: An Inclusive Plan
Updated January 2018This functional plan identifies goals and actions to match housing supply and demand in Broward County, Florida. -
Coos County, OR, Housing Analysis and Action Plan
2018This functional plan includes a housing needs assessment for Coos County, Oregon, and shares six recommended actions. -
MVC, MA, Housing Production Plans
Adopted January 2017These functional plans identify housing needs and priorities for the entire island of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, as well as each municipality. -
Charlotte, NC, Housing Charlotte
Adopted August 2018This functional plan summarizes the results of a housing needs assessment for Charlotte, North Carolina, in Section 2. -
GVRHA, CO, Gunnison Valley Housing Plan 2019
Adopted April 2019This functional plan builds upon a housing needs assessment for the Gunnison Valley region of Colorado. -
Los Angeles, CA, General Plan
Adopted September 2016The city’s comprehensive plan belongs to the Housing Supply Planning and Shared Mobility collections. -
Bellevue, WA, Affordable Housing Strategy
Adopted June 2017This functional plan establishes a strategy to address affordable housing needs in Bellevue, Washington. -
Roseville, MN, Comprehensive Plan
Adopted 2019The city’s comprehensive plan shares a summary of a more extensive housing needs assessment in Chapter 5, before listing goals and strategies. -
Bozeman, MT, Community Housing Action Plan
Updated April 2020This functional plan translates the needs identified in the city’s housing needs assessment into strategies. -
Sioux Falls, SD, Shape Sioux Falls 2040
Updated 2019The city’s comprehensive plan discusses current housing conditions and projects future housing need in Chapter 1. -
Leavenworth, WA, Comprehensive Plan
Updated 2017The city’s comprehensive plan shares key findings from a housing needs assessment before listing policies in the Housing Element. -
Hinesburg, VT, Town Plan
Adopted September 2017The city’s comprehensive plan includes housing goals and actions that directly reference findings from their housing needs assessment. -
CMAP, IL, On To 2050
Updated 2020This regional comprehensive plan includes a recommendation to match housing supply and demand in the Community chapter. -
Guide and Data Template for Preparing a Housing Needs and Demand Assessment
April 2013This model plan provides a template to help cities assess and plan to address housing needs. -
Survey of Market Absorption of New Multifamily Units (SOMA)
Updated July 2022This web page introduces the Survey of Market Absorption of New Multifamily Units (SOMA), a program by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Census Bureau and a common public data source for housing needs assessments. -
Housing Statistics
Updated January 2020This web page describes the housing statistics available through the National Association of Realtors and its affiliate state and local associations, a common data source for housing supply planning. -
Developing Downtown Design Guidelines
1988by: Janice PregliascoThis guide offers an older but thorough look at the process of developing historic downtown design guidelines in small communities.