Land Use and Transportation – Enhancing Livability

1. Land Use and Transportation – Enhancing Livability James Cheatham FHWA Director, Office of Planning NASTO June 15, 2010

2. HUD/DOT/EPA Sustainable Communities Partnership’s Guiding Principles • Provide more transportation choices. • Promote equitable, affordable housing. • Enhance economic competitiveness. • Target resources to existing communities. • Coordinate and leverage federal policies and investments. • Value unique characteristics of communities no matter their size.

3. Integrating Land Use, Transportation and Livability • Choices: Mixed use, higher land use densities facilitate walking, biking, transit use • Housing: Housing with access to transit, non-motorized modes, and easier access to goods, services and jobs • Economic competitiveness: Alternatives to single travel mode, shorter trips, fewer trips, reduced transportation costs for households

4. Integrating Land Use, Transportation and Livability • Target Resources: Increases community revitalization, improve the efficiency of investments, and safeguard rural landscapes. • Leverage Federal Policies and Investments: Align federal policies and funding to remove barriers to collaboration, leverage funding and increase the accountability and effectiveness. • Value Unique Characteristics of Communities: Enhance by investment in healthy, safe, and walkable neighborhoods –rural, urban, and suburban.

5. Land Use in Statewide and Metropolitan Planning Programs • Requires relationships w/ Other Planning Officials • Coordinate with State/local planned growth, economic development, environmental protection • Use transportation to achieve land use and other community goals, policies, and plans • Planning Factors - of the 8, will highlight • A) Economic Vitality • D) Increase accessibility and mobility • E) Enhance environment, energy conservation, quality of life

6. Land Use in FHWA Planning Programs • Environmental Mitigation • Discussion in Transportation Plan • Activities and areas to carry out • Consult w/federal, state, tribal land management agencies • Bicycle and Pedestrian Policy and Planning • Reissued US DOT policy (March 2010) • Non-motorized plans – required as part of multimodal systems planning • Land use patterns, densities, design critical in making alternative modes feasible and attractive

7. FHWA Outreach and Training • Internal training for FHWA staff on Land Use • PEAR Conference (Sept. 2009) • FHWA/FTA Webinars • FHWA/FTA Planners’ Seminar (Aug. 2010) • CTE Livability Webcast (Nov. 2009) • NHI Course, “Land Use and Transportation” • FHWA Resource Center Land Use Seminars • Land Use Peer Exchanges • Strategies for Livable Communities Research

8. FHWA Outreach and Training: Case Studies and Tools • Livability in Transportation Guidebook • Available this summer • Livability Website: http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/livability • Latest activities and information • Case studies • Land Use/Transportation Website http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/ppasg.htm • List of many resources and related websites • Access to the land use/transportation toolkit (including many case studies)

9. Case Studies • The Linkages Program - Capital District Transportation Committee (Albany, NY MPO) • MPO funding and other support to better integrate regional transportation plan and local land use plans • PlanCheyenne - Cheyenne, WY MPO • MPO lead in developing integrated city-county plan, including transportation, community, and parks/recreation elements

10. Case Studies, cont. • MetroVision - Denver Region Council of Governments (DRCOG) • Direct link between regional vision plan and fiscally constrained MTP • Interchange Analysis/Plans - Mecklenburg-Union MPO (Charlotte, NC) • Approach to guide development around interchanges along I-485 outer loop • Smart Transportation Guidebook – PennDOT • Tool to implement “Smart Transportation” policy

11. Contact Information: Contact Your Division Office or: James.Cheatham@dot.gov 202-366-0106 Gabe.Rousseau@dot.gov 202-366-8044 Shana.Baker@dot.gov (Livability) 202-366-4649 Robin.Smith@dot.gov (Land use) 720-963-3072

13. Partnership for Sustainable Communities: Progress to Date • Three-Agency and White House Tour • Outreach to Key Stakeholders • HUD’s Brownfields Policy Change • Executive Order (EO 13514) on Federal Facilities • Grant Coordination • EPA’s Smart Growth Implementation Assistance Program

14. Partnership for Sustainable Communities: Progress to Date • TIGER Discretionary Grant Program • HUD’s Sustainable Communities Planning Grant Program • DOT Urban Circulator Projects

15. Existing FHWA Programs that Support Land Use and Transportation -Livability • Context Sensitive Solutions • Bicycle and Pedestrian Programs • Transportation Enhancements • Green Highways Initiative • Exemplary Human Environment Initiative • Safe Routes to School • Intelligent Transportation Systems

16. Boulevard of the Allies Bridge Project • The community design advisory team guided the Boulevard of the Allies Bridge project to: • Replaces a severely deteriorated bridge and ramps • Connects Pittsburgh’s downtown area with Oakland • Provides a regional center for culture, higher education, and health care

17. Plan Cheyenne The Transportation Master Plan defines a transportation vision for the Cheyenne Area and needs analysis and vision plans. This Vision Plan defines the roadway, transit, bicycle, and pedestrian facilities.

18. Livable Communities

19. What are Livable/Sustainable Communities? “Livable Communities are where people have access to many different forms of transportation and affordable housing…..” Secretary Ray LaHood, DOT