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Master of Urban and Regional Planning Workshop Projects

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A Tale Of Two Tods: Transit Oriented Development On The Westside Light Rail Corridor: An Analysis Of Station Area Planning And Development At Orenco And Beaverton Creek, Emily Harnish, Kenneth Itel, Michael Lapham, Matthew Larsen, Ann-Elizabeth Riis Mar 2000

A Tale Of Two Tods: Transit Oriented Development On The Westside Light Rail Corridor: An Analysis Of Station Area Planning And Development At Orenco And Beaverton Creek, Emily Harnish, Kenneth Itel, Michael Lapham, Matthew Larsen, Ann-Elizabeth Riis

Master of Urban and Regional Planning Workshop Projects

The Portland metropolitan region is growing rapidly, as are accompanying environmental impacts which threaten livability. An efficient linkage between transportation and land use planning through transit oriented development has been identified as an important tool for managing growth-related problems. Implementation of this linkage is difficult to achieve.

A transit oriented development (TOD) is a compact, mixed-use community within short walking distance of a transit stop. Significant investment has been made in local TODs, particularly within the Westside corridor station areas of the Portland Metro Area Express (MAX) light rail line. While some of these developments have been criticized for not …