What is TOD?
Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) is a strategy available to help Winnipeg manage growth and improve the quality of life by aligning transit investments with the community’s vision for how it wants to grow, creating “livable” mixed-use, denser, walkable places, and providing an alternative to low-density suburban development and automobile-dependent land use patterns.
TOD focuses compact growth within an easy walk of transit stations, bringing potential riders closer to transit facilities, and promotes increased ridership by making riding transit that much easier. TOD can be defined as:
Moderate to higher density compact mixed-use development, located within an easy five to ten minute (approximately 400m to 800m) walk of a major transit stop. TOD involves high quality urban development with a mix of residential, employment and shopping opportunities, designed in a pedestrian oriented manner without excluding the automobile. TOD can be new construction or redevelopment of one or more buildings whose design and operation facilitate the use of convenient and sustainable modes of transportation, including public transit and active transportation.
Simply stated, TOD involves mixed-use, pedestrian-oriented infill development focused within a five to ten minute walk of a transit station.
Last update:
October 29, 2010
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