Land Use Resources

Washington Regional Network for Livable Communities

* Traffic & Transportation

Making Streets That Work: A Neighborhood Planning Tool. City of Seattle, 1996. This workbook presents tools that can be used for individual streets but also emphasizes the importance of integrating these small-scale tools into larger neighborhood planning efforts. http://www.ci.seattle.wa.us/td/mstw.asp

Street Design Guidelines for Healthy Neighborhoods. A strategic guidebook for communities who want to create safe, efficient and aesthetically pleasing neighborhoods. Developed by a team of experts including a traffic engineer, a transportation planner, an architect, an attorney and a community activist. Available for $25 through http://www.walkable.org

City Routes, City Rights: Building Livable Neighborhoods and Environmental Justice By Fixing Transportation. Conservation Law Foundation, 1998. This report/how-to manual outlines plans for safe, livable streets, better, cleaner transit service and sustainable development around transit stations. Call 617-350-0990 or visit http://www.clf.org/pubs/order.htm

Parking Solutions: A Comprehensive Menu of Solutions to Parking Problems. TDM Encyclopedia. Victoria Transport Policy Institute. http://www.vtpi.org/tdm/tdm72.htm

*Design & Development

The Next American Metropolis: Ecology, Community, and the American Dream. Peter Calthorpe. Princeton Architectural Press, Inc. 1993.

Best Development Practices: Doing the Right Thing and Making Money at the Same Time. Reid Ewing. Planners Press. Chicago, Il, Washington, D.C. 1996.

How to Turn a Place Around. Project for Public Places. www.pps.org

Strategies for Successful Infill Development. Northeast-Midwest Institute & Congress for a New Urbanism. http://www.nemw.org/infillbook.htm

*Station Area Planning

A Community-Based Plan for Columbia Heights Metro Station Area. Washington Architectural Foundation. 1998. Call: 202-667-1798.

Twinbrook Metro Station Charrette.
http://www.mc-mncppc.org/planning/cbp/shadygrove_files/frame.htm

Court House Sector Plan. Department of Community Affairs, Planning, Housing, and Community Development Division, Planning Section. Arlington County, Virginia. 1981. Call: 703-358-3520.

Seattle Light Rail Station Area Atlas. City of Seattle Station Area Planning Program. This atlas presents maps, diagrams, photographs, tables, and other key information about Seattle's light rail system. http://www.ci.seattle.wa.us/planning/SAPatlas.htm

Planning and Design for Transit Handbook: Guidelines for implementing transit supportive development. Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon (TRI-MET). 1996. http://www.tri-met.org/communitybuilding.htm

*Affordable Housing

Towards a Balanced Housing Strategy for D.C. and Its Region. Margery Austin Turner and Mark Rubin. The Urban Institute. Prepared for DC Agenda. Call: 202-223-2598.

Housing Policy for the City: Proposals to Meet the Crisis in Affordable Housing in the District of Columbia. Lists policies and programs that will help the District provide a comprehensive, city-wide, community-based affordable housing strategy. http://www.washingtonregion.net

*Regional Smart Growth

A New Approach: Integrating Transportation and Development in the National Capital Region Washington, D.C.: Washington Regional Network For Livable Communities, 1993. This proposal provides the only alternative vision for land use and transportation planning in the DC region. Call 202-244-1105 or e-mail staff@washingtonregion.net

A Network of Livable Communities: Evaluating Travel Behavior Effects of Alternative Transportation and Community Designs for the National Capital Region. Chesapeake Bay Foundation and Environmental Defense Fund, Annapolis, MD, 1996. Using the "New Approach" scenario (see above), this study found that daily vehicle trips in the D.C. region could be reduced by 15%. Call 202-387-5000 and ask for publication #00264W. $5. Or visit http://www.edf.org/pubs/reports/network/index.html