Why is TOD Important?
A successful TOD will reinforce both the community and the transit system. Creating a mix of uses within a TOD or easily accessible from a TOD promotes activity around the clock. This in turn promotes the most efficient use of the transit system: travel in both directions, throughout the day.
Transit-Oriented Development also provides an opportunity for stronger linkages and integration between land use planning, transit, and transportation & infrastructure investments. TOD recognizes that investments in transit are not just investments in transportation mode infrastructure, but are opportunities and investments in ‘city building’ and economic development.
Adding TOD to Winnipeg’s toolbox for development supports and enhances several current initiatives, such as:
- OurWinnipeg - Winnipeg’s 25-year blueprint that will guide the physical, social, environmental, and economic development of our city as per The Winnipeg Charter. It sets a vision for the next 25 years and provides direction in three areas of focus–each essential to Winnipeg’s future: A City that Works; A Sustainable City; and Quality of Life. OurWinnipeg integrates four Direction Strategies that provide detailed policies, directions, and strategies necessary for implementation - Complete Communities, Sustainable Transportation, Sustainable Water and Waste, and A Sustainable Winnipeg.
- Complete Community Direction Strategy - An innovative, practical “playbook” that guides land use and development for Winnipeg. Its primary focus is to describe Winnipeg’s physical characteristics and lay out a framework for the city’s future physical growth and development.
- Sustainable Transportation Direction Strategy - Provides a vision for transportation in Winnipeg for the next 25 years. Its emphasis is on moving people, goods and services in a way that is sustainable.
- Sustainable Water & Waste Direction Strategy - Promotes actions required to protect public health and safety, ensure the purity and reliability of our water supply and maintain or enhance the quality of our built and natural environments.
- A Sustainable Winnipeg - An integrated community sustainability strategy that outlines a plan of action, proposes a system of sustainability indicators and measures.Properly planned and designed transit facilities can be instrumental in positively shaping a community’s future. They can set the stage by being a catalyst for implementing the community’s vision and creating economic value.
Last update:
June 10, 2010
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