Denver 9/27 Kate Lowe

EQUITY & TRANSIT-

ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT

LINES, SITES & SYSTEMS

Catherine Lowe ■ PhD Candidate

City & Regional Planning, Cornell University

Presentation at Partners in Innovation:

Including Affordable and Workforce Housing

within TOD.

September 27, 2010 ■ Denver, CO

Research team: Rolf Pendall, Juliet Gainsborough,

Mai Nguyen & Catherine Lowe.

Support from the Support from the John D. &

Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

CONTEXT Ongoing research on fast growth regions’ preparation for

future.

Regions Denver, Houston, Charlotte=major system expansions

Miami=proposed expansion and TOD

Boston corridor=CBO & CDCs secure investment

Opportunities and challenges

Lines: Rail investment

Sites: TOD challenges

Systems: Ensuring resources & system equity

Importance and potential for advocates and housing community involvement in each

LINES: EQUITABLE RAIL ROUTING

CHALLENGES

Today’s projects from yesterday’s planning

Building support for rail investment areas require

compromises in complex metros

Happy accidents?

SITES: TOD LAND ASSEMBLY CHALLENGE

Talbot Station,

Fairmount Line, Boston

SITES:

TOD & INDUSTRIAL LAND, HIGHWAYS

Belleview Station, Southeast

Corridor, Denver

SITES: LIMITS TO AFFORDABLE TOD

THROUGH VALUE CAPTURE

Assumption: Transit raises land value that can

be recaptured to subsidize housing

Reality: Not that simple

Therefore: Affordability will require more

and redirected subsidies

SYSTEMS:

SMART GROWTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

Civil rights and

environmental

justice goals

“Smart growth”

goals driving

“equitable TOD”

Reconciliation:

Plan systems, not

just stations

http://www.cityofboston.gov/dnd/images/NR

_Norwell_5-10-05_dig.jpg

Boston Mayor Tom

Menino at ground-

breaking for Norwell

Homes, a project of

Codman Square NDC on

the Fairmount Corridor

http://www.inside-lane.com/wp-

content/uploads/2010/02/DSCN3772.JPG

Ismael Guerrero,

Denver Housing

Authority

Pat McCrory,

Charlotte

Mayor,

1995-2009

http://politics.mync.com/wp-

content/uploads/2008/11/080515_pat_mccrory.jpg

Dorchester Bay EDC’s Dudley Village, with 50

affordable units and ground floor retail (Boston).

http://www.denverhousing.org/development/curtispark/Publ

ishingImages/CurtisParkandBean506054.jpg

Denver Housing Authority’s Curtis Park

development, a downtown transit-accessible

HOPE VI project

SYSTEMS: SUPPORT FOR MIXED INCOME

TOD PART OF METRO SUPPORT FOR

Public sector commitment

Experienced affordable housing

builders

LESSONS: SITES, LINES & SYSTEMS, Lines

Ensure transit serves low/moderate income communities

Coalition opportunities

Sites

Challenges of land assembly and supporting amenities

Value capture can’t support all workforce/low-income housing needs

Systems

EJ & smart growth in metro housing & transport system

Support & resources for workforce/low-income housing generally

EQUITY & TRANSIT-

ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT

LINES, SITES & SYSTEMS

Rolf Pendall, The Urban Instituterpendall@urban.org

Juliet Gainsborough, Bentley Universityjgainsborough@bentley.edu

Mai Nguyen, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hillmai@unc.edu

Catherine Lowe, Cornell UniversityCRL64@cornell.edu

Support from the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.