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2009‐2010 Final Report: Leonard Transportation Center Funded Research and Development for California SB375 Implementation and Integration of Transportation and Land Use Planning
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2010-01-01
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Abstract:The just‐completed (2009‐2010) phase of this project corresponds to the second year of an envisioned three‐year initiative on integrated transportation and land use planning supported by the Leonard Transportation Center (LTC) and USDOT, and performed by faculty and staff at Cal Poly Pomona under the leadership of Professor Michael Reibel. In the first phase of the project, Dr. Reibel’s team engaged in research regarding local government GIS capabilities for integrated planning and specifically strategic compliance with the new transportation and land use planning mandates of California SB375. SB 375, which affects local agencies and metropolitan (regional) planning organizations (MPOs), requires far more integration of land use planning with transportation planning, and far more geospatial analysis than was previously necessary. In the 2009‐2010 phase, a customized GIS computer application (the Toolkit) has been completed that significantly contributes to optimal SB375 compliance as well as to general local land use and transportation planning integration. A third and final year of the project has been funded by the LTC which will focus on the development and promotion of a training sequence and documentation materials to assist users in deriving maximum benefit from the Toolkit. The SB 375 GIS Toolkit The SB 375 GIS Toolkit is designed to offer maximum analytic power with the smallest possible learning curve, while still preserving the reliability of model outcomes and enabling extensive customization by more experienced users. The Toolkit comes loaded with a comprehensive database of relevant urban features pertaining to the six‐county region of the Southern California Association of Governments. The user can interactively choose the default data and model parameters or load data and define model parameters for the desired study region. The data must be a 50 m2 grid with cells coded to existing land cover; model parameters are the acreage to be developed in each of ten defined land use categories. The land use categories are defined so as to optimize land use density (and particularly residential density) and thus transit use potential per the requirements of SB375. Consequently the land use categories are broken out in considerable detail when it comes to transit‐oriented developments (TODs) and other high density use patterns. The categories are, in order of precedence within the allocation models: Mixed Use TODs. Residential‐only TOD. Non‐TOD High Density Mixed Use. High Impact Commercial. High Density Residential. Non‐TOD Low Density Mixed Use. Low Impact Commercial. Medium Density Residential. Low Density Residential. Industrial.
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