What does equitable transit-oriented development look like?
☑️ Affordable homes ☑️ Urban agriculture ☑️ Activated vacant lots ☑️ Green infrastructure ☑️ Walkable station areas ☑️ Urban agriculture ☑️ Community centers ☑️ Business incubators ☑️ Grocery stores ☑️ Murals and art ☑️ Health clinics ☑️ Locally-owned businesses And more!
How do we integrate the east west crossing at Main Street and make that smoother, easier, safer?
LaSalle Station has a diverse range of visitors and users. There are unique opportunities to connect regional multi-modal paths/parks and provide greater access to Main Street retail to create a cohesive and more enjoyable experience for users. The redevelopment has unique opportunity as a combination of city and NFTA-owned parcels. Would you support this vision for LaSalle Station area?
This is a good place to connect East and West sides into the midtown area: "A community living room." - Participant
Utica Station is a highly active place for transit transfers as well as for the community to gather. DOTF Coalition members would like to see infrastructure improvements, public amenities, and activities to make people feel welcome and wanted. We hope to see Utica Station transform to a community and transportation hub. There are an abundance of parcels and buildings with adaptive reuse potential within the immediate area. During the design workshop, coalition members expressed a desire for healthier food options, service businesses, health services, and preserving historic and culturally-significant buildings.
Would you support this vision for Utica Station area?
Recent developments here look nice, but they're not affordable for me or my community.
This station area could benefit from investing in wayfinding to better support existing businesses as well as encourage new essential and service businesses in the neighborhood. Infill developments should be considered where parking lots exist. Coalition members desire mixed-use near the Summer-Best Station, such as ground floor storefronts and residential units above. Desired uses include service-oriented, and pedestrian-scaled businesses surrounding the station. The Coalition recommends developers be required to follow a Community Benefit Agreement for bigger lots to ensure new projects serve the community.
Would you support this vision for Summer-Best Station area?
Station Map (DOTF StoryMap)
2023
What is possible when we build eTOD together? Let's make development work for our neighborhoods.
2022
Community engagement partners Highland Planning, GObike, and LISC NY launch the Developing Our Transit Future series to activate a network of community members to understand and communicate the benefits of TOD. The goal of this type of engagement is to build the coalition needed to support equitable transit-oriented development efforts throughout the region.
2019
The Comprehensive Transit-Oriented Development Plan was completed with praise from local officials and FTA. The plan was used to support a second round of Transit-Oriented Development funding.
2018
WSP hosted a series of three charrette style workshops with developers, real estate professionals, government officials, economic development agencies, businesses, stakeholders in the transportation, housing, academic, and community development sectors, and members of the communities along the Metro Rail corridor to identify opportunities and challenges for Transit-Oriented Development. Several follow up meetings were held with various organizations, not-for-profits, and community groups to expand the outreach and engagement of the TOD planning effort. Based on input from the charrette workshops, station area plans for six existing and proposed Metro Rail stations were developed- DL&W, Summer-Best, Utica, LaSalle, Boulevard Mall, and Audubon, which composed of varying neighborhood and market typologies. The station area plans portray a concept for context appropriate, equitable Transit-Oriented Development and identifies the strategies local communities should take to achieve the vision.
