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Valley Metro Rail Station Area Study

Phoenix Metropolitan Region, Arizona

As part of an on-going light rail planning effort with the Regional Public Transit Authority (RPTA) in Phoenix, Tempe, and Mesa, Community Design + Architecture, in partnership with Economic and Planning Systems (EPS), established a range of development opportunities for 21 stations areas by creating a palette of development types and test fit diagrams that illustrate opportunities within the station areas. Opportunity sites were identified within a 1/2-mile walking radius of the stations through field research and meetings with city staff. Concurrently, "marketable" development types were identified for a range of uses and building configurations in the 21 station areas, followed by detailed development prototypes including building types, scale of development and density ranges, as well as a listing of case study projects, both from the Valley Region and elsewhere, which are to be used by Tempe and Mesa in public education and outreach efforts involving stakeholders of the station areas as well as the development community.

Community Design + Architecture also prepared nearly 140 land capacity (“test fit”) diagrams for the opportunity sites. The diagrams illustrate the layout of marketable uses with appropriate parking ratios at two levels of intensity. These diagrams and land use programs will be used by EPS for initial feasibility and programming analysis, presented to staff from the three cities and refined where necessary. Community Design + Architecture was also retained by the three cities to assist them in moving forward with implementation of the Model TOD Overlay Zoning including additional case study research, refinements to the cities’ implementation policies and development of station area illustrative plans.

he Rail Station Area Study received a Transportation Planning Excellence Award for 2004 as part of the larger Comprehensive Program on Transit Supportive Land Use being administered by Valley Metro Rail. The award is sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration and the Federal Transit Administration, and cosponsored by the American Planning Association.

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