PROJECT SUMMARY: In September 2018, California’s AB 2923 granted BART power to use land use zoning to enable transit-oriented development (TOD) on BART-owned property. BART can now set development standards for residential density, building height, building mass, and parking. The law seeks to address the Bay Area housing shortage, and support BART in creating new opportunities for housing and commercial development in station areas. With this new power, AB 2923 also required that BART set Transportation Demand Management (TDM) requirements to minimize traffic generated from developments on its property.

In 2020, BART contracted Nelson\Nygaard to support development of its new TDM Program, including demand management requirements and an implementation toolkit to fulfill this charge. The TDM Requirements were unanimously adopted by the BART of Directors on August 27, 2020. The implementation toolkit provides a menu of TDM strategies for developers and management companies to choose from, valued with a point system indexed to estimated reductions in vehicle miles traveled (VMT).

TEAM: Nelson\Nygaard

ROLE: As a member of Nelson\Nygaard’s project staff, I researched TDM best practices, drafted the TDM requirements language, composed the implementation toolkit structure, developed performance metrics, and advised BART staff on the direction of the project.

TOOLS USED: Google MyMaps and Streetview; Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and OneDrive