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Windfall for All

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How Connected, Convenient Neighborhoods Can Protect Our Climate and Safeguard California's Economy
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How Connected, Convenient Neighborhoods Can Protect Our Climate and Safeguard California's Economy
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There are ways to fight climate change that can save all of us – families, taxpayers, governments, and businesses – huge amounts of money.

How? By creating more efficient neighborhoods that put housing, jobs, shops and services closer together and offer a range of transportation options. As a result, we can save households an average of $5,200 per year on transportation costs – and help meet California's emissions reductions targets.

Households have lower transportation costs and green-house gas emissions when they have better access to mass transit

Our current pattern of growth - sprawl - is costing us too much. It requires taxpayers to spend too much on infrastructure, developers to spend too much on parking, and families to spend far too much to get where they need to go.

Huge savings for all are in reach if we harness the potential of California's new smart growth law, SB 375, and shift transportation and land use policies and investments to support a new paradigm for planning.

Learn how we'll get there, get cutting-edge data, and read inspiring case studies in TransForm's new report, which has both an abbreviated and extended version.

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Getting On the Right Track

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Transportation Choices for the Bay Area
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An old but useful report that dispels myths about transportation, with a very readable Question and Answer section in the first chapter.
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Downward Mobility

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How Location of Bay Area Job Growth Will Exacerbate Congestion and Reduce Job Accessibility.
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Describes how intensive suburban Bay Area job growth will exacerbate congestion and reduce job accessibility.
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Executive Summary

Nearly a million new jobs are projected for the Bay Area over the next twenty years- a 30% increase over existing levels of employment. This report measures the frequency of transit service in each census tract for which job growth is projected. The results indicate that 565,728 new jobs, more than half of all those projected, are expected to locate in areas with infrequent transit service.

Warning Signs

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The Bay Area's Collision Course with Sprawl and How Smart Growth Can Help
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Laid out TransForm's campaign for a Regional Smart Growth Vision, and the Regional Coalition's original platform of recommendations.
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It Takes a Transit Village

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How Better Planning Can Save the Bay Area Billions of Dollars and Ease the Housing Shortage
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How better regional planning, and designing new development to truly support transit can save the Bay Area billions of dollars and ease the housing shortage.
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Executive Summary

The Bay Area faces two worsening crises: a severe lack of affordable housing and a severely strained transportation system. Housing prices continue to skyrocket, as housing construction falls far short of demand. Most newly built housing sprawls over our precious greenfields and open spaces, requires a car for every trip, and is a major reason traffic congestion has spiked over the past 10 years.

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