1. D-O LRT Station Neighborhoods
Chapel Hill Community Meeting
February 22, 2017

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3. A Partnership for Transit-Supportive Walkable Places
A partnership supporting walkable neighborhoods in anticipation of Durham-Orange Light Rail Transit (D-O LRT)
Continuing to engage the community to build on prior local planning
Local land use decisions remain with Chapel Hill, Durham, Duke, Duke Univ. Medical Center, UNC, UNC Health Care and NCCU

4. Steps So Far Durham Comp Plan establishes Compact Neighborhoods
Chapel Hill 2020 Comp Plan establishes Future Focus Areas
Voter approved transit tax takes effect in 2013

5. Steps So Far
2040 Metropolitan Transp. Plan incorporates D-O LRT (2013)
Record of Decision clears D-O LRT (2016)
D-O LRT line extended to North Carolina Central Univ. (2017)

6. Why D-O LRT? Corridor Trips per Acre Map (TJCOG)
The map at the left shows the projected trips per acre for our region in TJCOG assembled the data based on land use plans provided by local governments in Orange, Durham, Wake, and surrounding counties.
White areas have less than 10 trips per acre, which is generally too low for regular fixed-route bus service to be productive. Intensity rises through the yellow and orange zones, with areas of 50 to 100 trips per acre in red, and those over 100 trips per acre in purple.
However, it takes a 3-D map to show how much more intense several of the purple zones with more than 100 trips per acre are, compared to even the category just below. Let’s take a closer look.

7. D-O LRT Corridor Trips Per Acre, Projected 2040
Gateway 98/acre
UNC Hospital 385/acre
Patterson Place 104/acre
Ninth St. 181/acre
Duke+VA 236/acre
Downtown Durham
209/acre
D-O LRT Corridor Trips Per Acre, Projected 2040
NCCU
160/acre
MLK+South Sq. 187/acre
This map identifies those major trip intensity zones in the D-O LRT corridor.
Woodmont: 70

8. Why D-O LRT? Matching values and growth decisions in Durham and Orange Counties

9. Steps Ahead

10. Aligning Plans and Community Goals by building on community policy

11. Extending and leveraging bus and bike/ped

12. Development Oriented Transit (Conventional v. DOT)
Similar level of development both sides; but right side walkable, while left side auto-focused
Right side organized to enable transit-supportive development; left side primarily for work trips
Right side limited, managed parking; left side parking dominant

13. The station areas along the corridor should be grown with intention
Development-Oriented Transit is rail ready, not rail dependent
The potential for more walkable places

14. Walkable Places Benefits
For the Community
Less traffic, cleaner air and a healthier lifestyle
A balanced tax base
More choices for housing, retail and access to jobs

15. Walkable Places Benefits
For the Region
Repositions transit – as part of quality of life
Serves full range of transit customers, from the university service worker to the downtown entrepreneur
Portland

16. Walkable Places Benefits
Walker’s Paradise
Many daily trips do not require a car.
Car Dependent
Almost all daily trips require a car.
100
Durham Chapel Hill

17. Walkable Places Benefits
Nationally, a 20-point increase in Walk Score adds $106,000 to a home’s value

18. 10 Trips 6.67 Trips 3.55 Trips Multifamily Single Family
MF TOD
Daily Vehicle Trips
Single Family
Transit oriented housing generates 50%less auto traffic than conventional housing

19. More housing choice, and an opportunity for sustainable affordable housing

20. Principles for Walkable Places
Sustainable Density
A neighborhood average of 9 to 25 du/ac + to support LRT
Distance to transit matters

21. 10th & Osage LRT station at former public housing site
Denver
LRT station at former public housing site
434 units “for sale” and “for rent,” providing housing options for all
Variety of public spaces

22. Mix of Uses Vertical or Horizontal The Details matter
Limit auto-oriented uses
Housing for everyone
Benefits
More walking / less auto use
Increased transit ridership

23. Pearl District
Portland
Railyard converted to Portland’s most coveted mixed use neighborhood
22% Affordable
58% non-auto work trips
20 Year Performance: $1+ Billion / 3,000 Units

24. Compact pedestrian-oriented
Block sizes for 5-minute walk
Orient buildings to sidewalks
Active street edges

25. Distance & Mode Share Transit share decreases with distance
Lesson: put office & retail closest to station
First 600 feet really matters
Office mode share drops about 1% every 100 feet
½ - mile residential share 300% higher than office
DC Metrorail Mode Share
Office
Residential
At station
35%
54%
¼ mile
23%
43%
½ mile
10%
31%

26. Active defined center
Up to 18 hours of activity with people living in the neighborhood
Compact and walkable
Employment closest to transit

27. Mission Bay 300-acre Mixed Use Redevelopment UCSF Campus + Biotech
San Francisco
300-acre Mixed Use Redevelopment
UCSF Campus + Biotech
Housing diversity with height limits

28. Limited, managed parking
Consider size, location, design and management
No minimum ratios, maximums
Disconnect parking from buildings, manage by district

29. Walkable transit places create less traffic
Residents are:
Twice as likely not to own a car as US Households
5 times more likely to commute by transit than others in region
Self-selection:
Responsible for up to 40% of ridership bonus

30. 6. Public leadership Focus on implementation
Nurture progressive developers
Plans + Capital Budgets aligned

31. Columbia City Public housing redevelopment Mixed-Use 850 units
BEFORE 31
Columbia City
Seattle
Public housing redevelopment
Mixed-Use
850 units
Integrated affordable + market rate
BEFORE

32. A String of Pearls (not one size fits all)

33. University Villages UNC Hospitals Mason Farm Road Friday Center Drive
Duke/VA Medical Center
NCCU
Educational facilities where their presence links economic and social life, and the neighborhood offers a wide variety of living options

34. Neighborhood Destinations
An intentional merging of neighborhoods and integrated places of diverse retail, restaurants, service offerings and employment
Hamilton Road
Woodmont
LaSalle Street

35. Suburban Retrofits Gateway Patterson Place
Neighborhoods intentionally linked through civic spaces to areas of opportunity of mixed use and new economy employment centers
Gateway
Patterson Place

36. Suburban Retrofits MLK Jr. Parkway South Square
Neighborhoods intentionally linked through civic spaces to areas of opportunity of mixed use and new economy employment centers
MLK Jr. Parkway
South Square

37. A New Community Leigh Village
A unique opportunity for creation of a regionally connected community destination that draws new families and investment
Leigh Village

38. Urban Hubs 9th Street Buchanan Downtown Durham Dillard Alston
A dynamic and diverse array of interconnected, walkable mixed-use neighborhoods, centers of government, and city life
9th Street
Buchanan
Downtown Durham
Dillard
Alston

39. Your View What are your hopes and dreams?
To what do you want to be connected?
What do you want to enhance and celebrate?