Patrick Sisson reports on the fruits of a 2013 effort by the city of Chicago to codify transit oriented development.
Before getting to a map of current transit oriented development (TOD) projects, Patrick Sisson notes that some cynics don't buy the premise of TOD: "…opponents of some of the current proposals being debated by aldermen and neighborhood groups take a more, shall we say, pessimistic view of these projects. Many feel that despite prognostications of car-free living, new apartments won't suddenly create a new paradigm for urban living but will inevitably bring more cars, saying that TODs will just introduce traffic logjams without responsible provisions for additional parking spots."
Sisson also notes that Streetsblog Chicago has been providing news about Chicago's TOD projects as it breaks.
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