- Business areas and robust neighborhoods are predicted to develop around stations.
- Project supports rails made in Pueblo, ties manufactured in Adams County, and Xcel energy from the rocky mountains instead of oil from the middle east sold in a French gas station.
- Must be possible to walk, for instance, from offices to housing around bus stations. In places like San Diego, multilane highways have come in between important places in developments.
- Fannie May is considering giving mortgage rate incentives to homeowners who live within a quarter mile of transit in the Denver Metro area. Since these people need to use cars less, they have less payment, and can thus take on more mortgage liability.
- New Urban design style elements
- Establishment of urban growth boundaries
- Channeling urban development toward "in fill" (underdeveloped areas within the urban growth boundary).
- "Transit oriented development" along urban rail corridors, higer population density, and higher employment density.
- Little if any expansion of street or highway capacity.
- Retail developments less oriented toward the automobile (smaller stores with less parking generally in town centers rather than suburbs). (United States. Congress. Senate. Committe on Environment and Public Works.)
Source:
United States. Congress. Senate. Committe on Environment and Public Works. Open space and environmental quality: hearings before the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, One Hundred Sixth Congress, first session, March 17 and 18, 1999, July 7, 1999-Las Vegas, Nevada. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 1999.
          
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