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Public art often provides iconic landmarks, reflects community values and provides aesthetic opportunities to improve the public realm while cultivating a sense of place. Art can contribute to an...

Provide safe, direct and interesting routes to transit. A transit rider’s commute is often part of their daily physical activity. Employ Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED)...

The transit-first policy will be implemented in one of the following ways:

• On a specific date
• Following completion of a transit-first implementation study
• As signals and/or pavement is replaced...

Bring together various community development stakeholders to identify shared project objectives and transit integration opportunities and challenges at the earliest stage in the process to...

Create a critical mass of activities such as clustered amenities near transit stops and mobility hubs to encourage “access by proximity”.

Enable easy, attractive, visible...

Target growth and development (intensified and mixed land uses) to bus routes, light rail lines, and transit stations and provide pedestrian- and bike-friendly access.

• Ensure developments...

Implement policies that support healthy, active, and engaged communities.

• Manage parking through Transportation Demand Management measures (e.g., parking reduction incentives...

Plan for neighborhood integration to ensure that new development and the proposed urban pattern provide a natural transition in size, scale, and character to adjacent neighborhoods.

Integrate Tra...

Parking at or near stations should be structured, leaving surface areas available for active uses, including community gathering.

Promote neighborhood vitality and a balanced mix of uses through standards for jobs/housing ratio, adjustments to setbacks, provision of public open space, and maximum parking requirements.

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Cross-training engineers and planners creates a collaborative environment for designing and developing streets.

• Planners’ role. Generally, planners work with the community to define the goals...

Build in flexibility. Use engineering design discretion to design streets in context with surrounding land uses. Look at the full range of values provided in design manuals, rather than default to...

• Develop an outreach plan and expect lots of comments. Quick-build projects are public beta tests. They allow local agencies to get input on a design and modify it before it becomes permanent...

With completion of initial assessments, projects can move into the corridor planning stage. Corridor planning studies consist of several distinct phases, with each typically taking one or more years...

Support Transit in Operations

VTA strongly recommends establishing transit first policies that favor rail and bus operations. Strong signal priority for transit operations in major corridors is...

System Design

VTA must balance highly technical aspects of planning, design, construction, operations, and maintenance with community needs and expectations alongside the needs and expectations of...