The Great Communities Toolkit is a free compendium of resources to help those advocating for sound transit station development. The toolkit was developed to help community groups shape Great Communities around transit, by helping them make sure these plans will result in neighborhoods of affordable homes, shops, accessible job centers, and community services. With this toolkit, you will have the tools influence your city’s plans for neighborhoods near transit.

The Tookit has the following:

• Stories of people whose lives improved by living or working near transit.
• Policy Fact Sheets with detailed information on compact development, displacement, and other key issues.
• Handout sheets to get your community informed about key aspects of station area plans such as parking, traffic, affordable housing, compact development, and community benefit agreements.
  

• Step-by-step instructions for creating a station plan campaign.
• Tips for working with the media to get out your message.
  
• Technical tools and references for getting more in-depth information.
  
• Background on why we need to get involved in station area planning processes, who the members of the Great Communities Collaborative are and what the overall Collaborative goals are.

Much of the information presented in the Toolkit is based on the TOD Best Practices Resource Guide, a collection of resources put together by the Transportation and Land Use Coalition.

• Download files from the Toolkit Table of Contents