Encouraging Transit Villages

6 November 2003 - 9:00am

Livable Places has developed a fact sheet with incentives cities and counties can provide to assist transit-oriented development.

While everyone from urban planners to environmentalists and community activists is singing the praises of transit-oriented development, getting TODs actually built is still a difficult task. Livable Places has put together a brief fact sheet with a number of incentives cities and counties can provide to assist developers of TODs and encourage the creation of urban transit villages.

Source: Livable Places, November 5, 2003
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This is in fact the kind of self-sufficient, self-sustaining 'village' community that Mahatma Gandhi -- the Father of the Nation -- dreamt of and wrote about in his books on India’s path to development.