| Regional TOD Policy for the Metropolitan Transportation Commission |
| Metropolitan Transportation Commission |
| San Francisco Bay Area, California | July 2004 | to | June 2005 |
| The Center for Transit-Oriented Development, including Strategic Economics, worked with the Metropolitan |
| Transportation Commission (MTC) to develop TOD policies requiring local governments to provide |
| transit-supportive land uses along future transit corridors where MTC’s Resolution 3434 funds will be used. |
| Imposing such land use requirements is highly controversial because local governments resist allowing regional |
| agencies to determine land use decisions. However, such policies are also necessary to ensure that the transit |
| investment made by MTC leverages maximum transit ridership. In order to respond to local concerns and ensure |
| that the land-use thresholds meet a basic standard of reasonableness, Strategic Economics further refined its |
| TOD residential demand estimates from “Hidden in Plain Sight for the Bay Area.” The resulting demand numbers |
| were then compared to ABAG’s Projections ’03 and Smart Growth projections to better understand what TOD |
| housing threshold requirements would be appropriate for each county in the region. |