Honorable Council Members,
As you may know, at its upcoming board meeting on Thursday, Caltrain is kicking off a process to set its strategy and policies for
land around Caltrain stations, including and especially land owned by Caltrain. This is a healthy component feeding into
Caltrain’s business plan, and helping Caltrain be a good financial steward of its assets and a good institutional citizen of a
region.
BART has set a solid precedent for such planning, having created a set of transit oriented development guidelines covering issues
such as business goals, affordable housing, density, and relative need for parking.
Pilot cities – add Mountain View?
Caltrain is planning to use three cities – South San Francisco, Belmont, and
Redwood City – to create case studies to test Caltrain’s evaluation method and evaluate the results of various policy options.
This case study process is good, but all of the cities identified are in San Mateo County.
Meanwhile, Mountain View is planning to update its transit center, and considering transit-oriented development on land currently
used for Caltrain parking.
Does it make sense to seek to include Mountain View in the pilot phase, or is it ok for the overall timing to follow Caltrain's
business plan.
Linked below is the staff presentation and a blog post with some additional ideas on the topics.
http://www.caltrain.com/Assets/__Agendas+and+Minutes/JPB/2018/2018-06-07+JPB+TOD+Presentation.pdf
[http://www.caltrain.com/Assets/__Agendas+and+Minutes/JPB/2018/2018-06-07+JPB+TOD+Presentation.pdf]
http://www.greencaltrain.com/2018/06/caltrain-kicks-off-tod-strategy/
[http://www.greencaltrain.com/2018/06/caltrain-kicks-off-tod-strategy/]
Thanks,
- AdinaAdina LevinFriends of Caltrainhttp://greencaltrain.com [http://greencaltrain.com]650-646-4344
