Local Land Use

Windfall for All

How Connected, Convenient Neighborhoods Can Protect Our Climate and Safeguard California's Economy
How Connected, Convenient Neighborhoods Can Protect Our Climate and Safeguard California's Economy

Housing Shortage/Parking Surplus

Lays out Silicon Valley's opportunity to address housing needs and transportation problems with innovative parking policies.
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Best and Worst Developments of the Bay Area

Nine counties, eighteen projects, and a platform for livable communities
Nine counties and eighteen projects help demonstrate what makes smart growth smart.
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Introduction

In 1998, member groups of the Transportation and Land Use Coalition (TALC) implored the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) to initiate a regional "Smart Growth Visioning Process." TALC's goal was, and is, to break the self-fulfilling prophecy of sprawl, whereby we predict sprawl will take place on the far suburban fringe of the region then subsidize that development with billions of dollars of

Great Communities Toolkit

This frequently-updated toolkit helps you to take on a step-by-step process for understanding development near transit and engaging the community. Includes great sample fact sheets, how to run a campaign, and more.
download the report from the Great Communities Collaborative website

GreenTRIP

GreenTRIP is an innovative new certification program that rewards multi-family, mixed-use, in-fill projects that apply comprehensive strategies to reduce traffic and greenhouse gas emissions. Projects meeting GreenTRIP certification criteria provide appropriate amounts of parking and incentives for new residents to drive less and own fewer vehicles.  By creating less driving and using less land for parking spaces, there’s space freed up for services, shops and more affordable homes.

As people move into GreenTRIP-certified developments, we are predicting impressive environmental and social outcomes including dramatically fewer miles of driving per day than the regional average, lower car ownership rates, and a new definition of affordable living that bring families savings on car ownership, free transit and carshare memberships.

In reviewing local transit oriented development housing proposal, Caltrans plans to notify project sponsors and municipalities of the availability of GreenTRIP certification as a means of reducing vehicle trip generation and impacts on the State Highway System.  View March 2011 letter from Caltrans (California Department of Transportation). 

Pilot Project Shows Impressive Results

The first five GreenTRIP certified projects in the San Francisco Bay Area are already exceeding expectations. As explained in detail in this fact sheet, the first five GreenTRIP projects led to:

  • Easier approval for higher density developments
  • More affordable homes than would have otherwise been built
  • The equivalent of 80,000 years of free transit passes and 24,000 years of CarShare for residents of GreenTRIP buildings

Learn More and Get in Touch

Apply for GreenTRIP Certification

GreenTRIP is now available on an ongoing basis for the nine San Francisco Bay Area counties!  See links to more information on the Application Process, Certification Standards and Fees in the upper-left hand corner or contact GreenTRIP@TransFormCA.org for an application packet.

GreenTRIP is a cutting-edge new program by TransForm that certifies residential and mixed-use developments

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