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Fi4S7 iIICS<br />
Transit OrientedDeve opment<br />
t Status Report 20<strong>07</strong><br />
12 Planning and Zoning Activity<br />
121 Station Area Planning<br />
In light of all this development activity land use planning at station areas has become a pri<br />
ority for local jurisdictions See Exhibit 18for summary After the passage of FasTracks<br />
the Denver Regional Council of Governments DRCOGI the Denver region s metropolitan<br />
planning organization established a pool of 2 million in federal congestion mitigation and<br />
air quality CMAQ matching funds available to local jurisdictions to encourage station area<br />
planning Prior to this incentive very<br />
few jurisdictions had initiated any planning at proposed<br />
or even existing station areas<br />
DRCOG has awarded 1 695 million in federal matching funds for planning<br />
at 21 station<br />
areas and has made additional funding available for new applications this fall In addition<br />
<strong>RTD</strong> has committed 251 500 to local jurisdictions for planning<br />
eas<br />
studies at nine station ar<br />
In part due to these resources five additional station area plans were adopted by local<br />
governments in 20<strong>07</strong> Arvada splans for Sheridan Olde Town and Kipling on the Gold Line<br />
Boulder sfor <strong>30</strong>th Pearl on the Northwest Rail Corridor and Denver sfor Louisana and Pearl<br />
on the Southeast Corridor The adoption of station area plans by local governments is impor<br />
tant because they become official policy to guide development within station area neighbor<br />
hoods and they can provide input to the corridor planning during the project environmental<br />
documentation phase<br />
Planning efforts are currently underway on the Central Corridor at 10th Osage<br />
Auraria West stations Southeast Corridor at Louisiana<br />
Alameda and<br />
Pearl Colorado Boulevard and South<br />
moor Stations West Corridor at Decatur and Sheridan East Corridor at 40th Central<br />
Park Boulevard and 40th Airport stations on the Gold Line at Federal and Pecos stations<br />
and on theI225 Corridor at Nine Mile Station The adoption of station area plans by local<br />
governments is important because they become official policy to guide development within<br />
station area<br />
neighborhoods and they can provide input to the corridor planning during the<br />
project environmental documentation phase<br />
Funds are committed by local jurisdictions to begin station area plans<br />
in 2008 on the South<br />
west Corridor at Evans Station East Corridor at Peoria Smith Station Gold Line at 38th Inca<br />
Station Northwest Rail Corridor at South Westminster North Metro Corridor at Commerce<br />
City and 124th Avenue stations andI225 Corridor at Colfax Abilene and Iliff stations<br />
Draft 1 10 December 20<strong>07</strong><br />
Rev 2
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