Community Involvement

• Engage local groups to co-lead efforts and to build list of supporters.

• Identify, recruit, and train local advocates.

• Create site-specific working groups to share information and coordinate activities of local and regional advocates.

• Share GIS technology to allow groups to target action alerts to members who live near station areas or developments.

• Support community involvement with Leadership Institutes on growth and development.

Education

• Distribute materials on best practices, such as fact sheets, a guide, and sample presentations.

• Conduct walking tours of exemplary station areas.

• Organize public workshops and trainings on best practices in community design and equitable development.

• Coordinate presentations to city staff, commissions, and elected officials.

• Include latest developments and best practices in regional and local newsletters.

Analysis

• Provide analysis for community groups that compares proposed plans, zoning changes, and developments to best practices.

• Endorse plans that have exemplary programs to reduce driving and promote alternatives.

• Use trip generation models to show regional benefits of proposed developments.

• Prepare comments during environmental review.

• Coordinate with planning agencies to track the status of development activities near primary transit corridors.

Media

• Assist local advocates with media work, including media releases and strategic placement of letters to the editor and op-ed pieces.

• Provide media trainings on topics such as how to frame growth issues, becoming a resource for reporters, and generating positive coverage.