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Valley Metro Model Transit-Oriented District Overlay Zoning Ordinance

Phoenix Metropolitan Region, Arizona

Communities within the Valley of the Sun and the Regional Public Transit Authority are planning and engineering a light rail system connecting Phoenix, Tempe, and Mesa - the Central Phoenix/East Valley (CP/EV) light rail corridor. To complement these efforts,

Community Design + Architecture worked with the cities of Phoenix, Tempe and Mesa, and the Regional Public Transit Authority (RPTA) to develop a model overlay zoning ordinance to guide them in formulating policies and regulations that would encourage transit-oriented development (TOD) around the planned rail stations. The document offers a comprehensive understanding of TOD from formulating policies and regulations, to key design considerations and their rationale, to case studies highlighting issues and the experiences of other communities on implementation. The document balances public policy and regulation with market and community perspectives, which the cities can customize for their individual implementation processes. Extensive primary and secondary research was conducted in order to create a comprehensive document that allows the reader to understand the qualities of and the process by which successful TODs can be created.

Since the completion of the model ordinance the three cities, Phoenix in particular, have been working to integrate TOD into their planning policies and ordinances. Following the completion of their General Plan update, Phoenix developed its own interim overlay ordinance concurrently with the start of their station area planning efforts around specific stations. CD+A, in partnership with Economic and Planning Systems, subsequently worked with the three communities to define the market-supported potential for TOD around the approximately 26 stations on the CP/EV Corridor.

The Model Transit-Oriented Development District Overlay Zoning Ordinance 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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