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Resources

This page contains links to Web pages with information relevant to TOD, beginning with other King County Web pages.

King County

• Home Page
• Department of Transportation
• Metro Transit
• Smart Growth
• Annual Growth Reports

Other Web sites

• Affordable Housing Home Designer—A tool, resource, idea bank, and step-by step guide to design in affordable housing.
• American Planning Association—A nonprofit public interest and research organization committed to urban, suburban, regional, and rural planning.
• Carfree Cities—“Proposes a delightful solution to the vexing problem of urban automobiles.”
• Center for Transportation Excellence—A non-partisan policy research center created to serve the needs of communities and transportation organizations nationwide.
• Smart Communities Network—Creating energy smart communities—a project of the U.S. Department of Energy
• The Citistates Group—A network of journalists, speakers, and civic leaders focused on building competitive, equitable, and sustainable 21st-century metropolitan regions.
• Congress for the New Urbanism—A Chicago-based nonprofit that teaches architects, developers, planners, and others involved in the creation of cities and towns how to implement the principles of the New Urbanism, which include coherent regional planning, walkable neighborhoods, and attractive, accommodating civic spaces.
• Funder’s Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities—A resource to assist funders and organizations interested in advancing more livable communities through smart growth policies.
• The International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI)—Tools for a sustainable community—one-stop guide for U.S. local governments.
• International Economic Development Council—“IEDC’s mission is to provide leadership and excellence in economic development for our communities, members, and partners to build economically strong, sustainable communities.”
• Livable Communities—On the Web site of Oregon Congressman Earl Blumenauer
• National Main Street Center—A clearinghouse for information, technical assistance, research, and advocacy on preservation-based commercial district revitalization.
• National Station Car Association—A nonprofit corporation whose purpose is to guide development and testing of the concept of using battery powered cars for access to and egress from mass transit stations.
• New Urbanism—“We stand for the restoration of existing urban centers and towns within coherent metropolitan regions, the reconfiguration of sprawling suburbs into communities of real neighborhoods and diverse districts, the conservation of natural environments, and the preservation of our built legacy.”
• New Urban News—A professional newsletter for planners, developers, architects, builders, public officials, and others interested in the creation of human-scale communities.
• Oregon Smart Development—Smart development uses land and resources efficiently, is located in cities or areas with full urban services, combines many activities with housing, encourages transportation choices, and uses detailed, human-scale design.
• Planning for Residential Parking: A Guide for Housing Developers and Planners—Intended to help developers, particularly those developing affordable and special needs housing, be more effective around the issue of parking.
• Puget Sound Regional Council—An association of cities, towns, counties, ports, and state agencies that serves as a forum for developing policies and making decisions about regional growth and transportation issues in the four-county central Puget Sound region.
• SimCity 3000—This city computer simulation game can be used as an educational tool; see “Teacher’s guide, an educational companion for SimCity 3000.”
• Smart Growth Network (SGN)—A web-based catalogue of smart growth related news, events, information, and resources. Developed and funded through a cooperative agreement between the US EPA and the Sustainable Communities Network, this tool is designed to advance public understanding of smart growth and how growth can improve community livability.
• Sound Transit—Regional network of express buses, commuter rail, light rail, and transit facilities connecting communities in King, Pierce, and Snohomish counties.
• Sprawl Watch Clearinghouse—“The Sprawl Watch Clearinghouse mission is to make the tools, techniques, and strategies developed to manage growth, accessible to citizens, grassroots organizations, environmentalists, public officials, planners, architects, the media and business leaders.”
• Surface Transportation Policy Project— A diverse, nationwide coalition working to ensure safer communities and smarter transportation choices that enhance the economy, improve public health, promote social equity, and protect the environment.
• Sustainable Communities Network—“Linking citizens to resources and to one another to create healthy, vital, sustainable communities.
• Transportation Choices Coalition —“Seeks to bring Washingtonians more and better transportation choices—real opportunities to take a bus, take a train, ride a bike, or walk—as well as drive alone.”
• Urban Land Institute—Initiates research that anticipates emerging land use trends and issues, proposing creative solutions based on that research.

Documents

Some or all of the documents below are PDF files, which can be viewed or downloaded using Adobe’s free Acrobat Reader software. For more information on getting or using Acrobat, please visit the King County Acrobat help page.

• Travel Characteristics of Transit-Oriented Development in California, produced by the San Fransisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. [PDF, external site]

Last update: November 19, 2007