By Scott Hansen, MDP Transportation Planning, & David Whitaker, AICP, MDP Communications
Models & Guidelines 30: Planning Tools for TOD
Owning a parcel near transit can open a wealth of development opportunities. Yet, how to achieve the most benefits from those locations can be a challenge. Transit-oriented development (TOD) is not any type of growth occurring near transit station. Instead, TOD features a well-designed and relatively high intensity of mixed land uses within a comfortable walk of a rail or bus transit station. More
Not long after I joined the Maryland Department of Planning, I came across a wall poster of the building where the agency is headquartered, only it didn’t have a picture of the current State Office Building and surrounding state complex but antique photographs of the neighborhood that used to exist at this site. It was captioned, “Before State Center … There Was a City Here.”