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APA California Northern News, November 2011
How “Less is More” in solving the parking dilemma
This is not a one-size-fits-all program. Innovations in transportation amenities, tailored to the community, can help justify lower parking requirements. Those in turn will lower development costs, reduce
San Francisco Business Times, December 3, 2010
GreenTRIP projects take road not driven
GreenTRIP is beginning to gain traction among housing developers. It started out with the five-project pilot and just ended its first application period on Nov. 15.
Program director Ann Cheng said she expects the program to certify at least 10 projects in the next year. GreenTRIP is sponsored by TransForm, a Bay Area group that advocates public transportation and walkable communities.
The program gives developers points for adding features such as providing discounted transit passes, car sharing on premises and proximity to public transportation and bike lanes. Developers are also encouraged to separate the cost of parking from the cost per unit and to limit parking spaces.
The idea is to encourage residents to drive as little as possible and make it easy to not drive. Another goal is to help developers design their projects and secure entitlements.
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GreenTRIP rates projects by their transit links
Most green certification programs such as the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED certification or the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Energy Star rankings look at a building’s systems and materials while GreenTRIP focuses just on transportation.
“We provide a one-page scorecard that shows whether the developer is doing much more to ensure transportation for the life of a project,” said Ann Cheng, director of the program based in Oakland.
GreenTRIP is sponsored by TransForm, a Bay Area group that advocates public transportation and walkable communities.
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Silicon Valley Business Journal, October 21, 2010
Public help from nonprofit
TransForm, a nonprofit organization in Oakland working to expand public transportation and walkable communities, is offering help to developers who want to build multihousing projects in inner cities.
"Neighbors’ biggest fears are about traffic, which is legitimate, but we’re trying to show what will actually happen rather than their worst-case scenario," [Program Director Ann] Cheng said.
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Planetizen, May 20, 2010
GreenTRIP Sustainable Transport Building Certification Program
The GreenTRIP (Traffic Reduction + Innovative Parking) program provides a good model for consideration of transport and parking management in building location and operation. This program certifies new residential and mixed use developments that incorporate traffic and parking reduction strategies, with standards tailored to specific land use types. It was developed by TransForm (formerly the Transportation and Land Use Coalition), a San Francisco Bay Area smart growth advocacy group, with funding from the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, The Rockefeller Foundation and The Silicon Community Foundation.
GREEN SPOTLIGHT: GreenTrip certifies more projects!
As a follow-up to the article we posted on the GreenTrip certification of the Ohlone project in San Jose, GreenTrip just listed a few more certified projects.
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Encouraging developers to take a “GreenTRIP”
Smart Growth America coalition member TransForm has developed a certification program called GreenTRIP to encourage building the kinds of places we need to reduce our carbon emissions.
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Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal, December 30, 2009
Higher density but less traffic
The Ohlone, an 800-unit housing development proposed for 8.25 acres along West San Carlos and Sunol streets in San Jose, is the first Bay Area project to be officially certified for reducing traffic.
Ann Cheng, senior planner at TransForm, said her organization, formerly the Transportation and Land Use Coalition, seeks to recognize developers who build projects that accomplish these goals.
The environmental movement in construction has convinced developers of the importance of earning certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. TransForm, based in Oakland, wants to do the same thing with cars.
“How people get to and from their new homes is just as important as what those homes are made of,” Cheng said.
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