Transportation
Great Communities Collaborative launches toolkit and website
The Great Communities Collaborative, of which Urban Habitat is a key partner, recently released a new Great Communities Toolkit to take you on a step-by-step process on how to build a better community. The Collaborative has also launched a comprehensive new website, that includes the toolkit, at www.greatcommunities.org. Both these resources focus extensively on transit-oriented development, where the Collaborative is working in the Bay Area, and how you can be a voice for great, walkable communities in your city. To learn more visit:
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Oakland kicks off Community Based Transportation Plans
Counties across the Bay Area are conducting Community Based Transportation Plans (CBTP's) to identify specific transportation needs and viable solutions for 25 low-income communities from throughout the nine counties of the Bay Area. In Alameda County, Hayward, San Leandro (Cherryland), East Oakland, West Oakland, and Berkeley/West Berkeley will all conduct a plan.
Building on top of the community outreach that TALC has already conducted for the East Bay BRT, TALC has recently been contracted to conduct the community outreach portion of the East Oakland CBTP. With additional financial and staff support for outreach from Urban Habitat, TALC and Urban Habitat staff will be spending the next several months coordinating outreach to dozens of community groups and facilities throughout East Oakland, focusing on surveying residents and workers in English, Spanish, Chinese, and Vietnamese.
Building on top of the community outreach that TALC has already conducted for the East Bay BRT, TALC has recently been contracted to conduct the community outreach portion of the East Oakland CBTP. With additional financial and staff support for outreach from Urban Habitat, TALC and Urban Habitat staff will be spending the next several months coordinating outreach to dozens of community groups and facilities throughout East Oakland, focusing on surveying residents and workers in English, Spanish, Chinese, and Vietnamese.
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Advocates needed for Great Communities in Pittsburg
Calling all Pittsburg residents! The Transportation and Land Use Coalition, one of Urban Habitat’s partners in the Great Communities Collaborative, is working in Pittsburg at the proposed Railroad Ave. eBART site. The Draft Specific Plan for the site is nearly ready for release, so now is an important time for local community members and activists to get involved in two key meetings. On April 12th, the city will give an overview of the plan at 7pm in the Pittsburg Senior Center, 300 Presidio Lane. This will be the last workshop before the city expects to release the draft plan in May.
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Improve Transit for Low-income Communities
The next Regional Transportation Plan will determine how over $100 billion in Federal, State and local transportation funds will be spent in the Bay Area over the next 25 years. Bottom line: if a project is not in the plan, then it won’t be funded.
That is why it is crucial that funding for transit serving communities of color and low-income communities is prioritized. Join Urban Habitat, members of the Transportation Justice Working Group (TJWG) and others to ensure that all communities benefit from high quality, affordable and convenient p
That is why it is crucial that funding for transit serving communities of color and low-income communities is prioritized. Join Urban Habitat, members of the Transportation Justice Working Group (TJWG) and others to ensure that all communities benefit from high quality, affordable and convenient p
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Governor's $1.1 Billion in Proposed Transit Cuts Contradict State Goals to Improve Transit Infrastructure
Hearing on Public Transit Budget to Highlight Need for Full State Funding
Governor’s $1.1 Billion in Proposed Transit Cuts Contradict State Goals to Improve Transit Infrastructure, Cut Global Warming Pollution
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Media Advisory: Will MTC Commit to Equalize Transit Spending?
January 8, 2007
MTC Director Flip-Flops on Prior Support for Correcting Transportation Funding Inequities, Despite Recent Findings that Low-Income Bus Riders Get Short End of Stick
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Pleasanton Officials Face Lawsuit for Violating Affordable Housing Laws
Public Advocates Inc. filed a suit against the City of Pleasanton on October 17, 2006 on behalf of Urban Habitat and Sandra De Gregorio, a low-income Latina mother and Pleasanton resident. Pleasanton is an affluent regional job center that has imposed rigid growth control policies that block residential development, particularly the development of affordable family housing. The suit challenges the City’s policies and practices that exclude housing for low-income families, focusing in particular on (a) the City’s failure to implement a program in its Housing Element that committed the City to rezone 30-40 acres of commercial land for high-density affordable housing, and (b) the City’s Housing Cap, which sets a ceiling on growth within its urban boundary at 29,000 units.
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