Metropolitan Council Annual TOD Report 2018
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Metropolitan Council Annual TOD Report 2018 Transit Oriented Development (TOD) is walkable, moderate to high density development served by How TOD advances the Council’s Mission frequent transit with a mix of housing, retail and TOD forwards each of the five outcomes employment choices designed to allow people to live contained in Thrive MSP 2040. and work without need of a personal automobile. • Stewardship: TOD maximizes the As the regional planning agency and transit provider, the effectiveness of transit investments with Metropolitan Council has engaged in TOD-supportive higher expectations of land use. It also activities for decades. With the adoption of a TOD Policy can generate long-term revenue for in 2014, the Council formally recognized this role. To transit operations and tax base for local coordinate Council efforts to implement the TOD Policy, communities. the Council established a TOD Office as a part of its Metro Transit division in 2014. • Prosperity: TOD encourages efficient and economic growth through redevelopment The TOD Policy calls on the Council to advance four and infill development. TOD goals, highlighted below. To forward these goals, the Council pursues five implementation strategies: • Equity: TOD locates jobs and housing at prioritize resources, focus on implementation, effective various levels of affordability in transit station communication, collaborate with partners, and areas, thereby facilitating access to regional coordinate internally. These implementation strategies opportunity for all. recognize that the Council has a role as a convener, an advocate, and an implementer of TOD. • Livability: TOD supports the development of walkable places. This report highlights the key TOD efforts undertaken by the Council in 2018. These efforts included pursuing • Sustainability: TOD promotes compact, Joint Development on Council-owned land, encouraging pedestrian-friendly development patterns TOD through strategic funding sources, conducting that provide alternatives to single-occupant studies of topics related to TOD, hosting and attending vehicle travel. events, and collaborating with partners. Metropolitan Council TOD Goals 1 2 3 4 Maximize the Support regional Advance equity Support a 21st century development impact economic by improving multimodal transportation system of transit investments competitiveness access opportunity through increased by integrating by leveraging private for all. ridership and revenues. transportation, jobs investment. and housing. 1 Allianz Field – Minnesota United Stadium Fridley Station Joint Development Projects Construction continued throughout 2018 on the Fridley Station on the Northstar Commuter Rail has Council’s first Joint Development project. Allianz Metro Transit park & rides on both sides of the tracks The TOD Policy calls on the Council to prioritize Field, the future home of the Minnesota United creating two TOD opportunities. In 2018, Metro TOD in the development of Council-owned land Major League Soccer team, is currently being built Transit determined it could reduce the size of the and facilities. To achieve this goal, the Council near the intersection of Snelling and University park & ride on the east side of the tracks allowing investigates and pursues Joint Development, “public in Saint Paul on land owned by Metro Transit and the property owner to sell the land to Sherman transportation projects that integrally relate to, formerly used as a bus barn. Associates, a notable TOD developer. Metro Transit and often co-locate with commercial, residential, is also exploring reducing the size of the park & ride mixed-use, or other non-transit development.”1 Joint on the west side of the station to allow for a Joint Development facilitates TOD on Council-owned Development. The TOD Office is working closely land creating ridership, maximizing the development with the City of Fridley to determine the best time impact of transit, and generating a source of long- to release an RFP for TOD on the west side of the term revenue for transit. Raymond Avenue Station on the METRO Green Line station. TOD Priority Site Metro Transit’s TOD Wayzata Park & Ride Office leads the Council’s Existing Transitway METRO Blue Line (LRT) Metro Transit owns a 102-space surface park & ride efforts to implement Joint METRO Green Line (LRT) Allianz Field Coon Rapids- METRO Red Line (BRT) in the City of Wayzata. Located near Wayzata’s Development projects. The Riverdale Station A Line - BRT The nearly 20,000-seat stadium is expected to open downtown and the shores of Lake Minnetonka, TOD Office focuses on a list Northstar Commuter Rail W River Rd in Spring 2019 and will host all Minnesota United this park & ride is in an amenity rich area that of Council-approved “TOD & 117th Ave Planned Transitway P&R home games as well as concerts and other events. makes it appealing for residential and commercial priority sites” located near METRO Green Line Extension METRO Blue Line Extension The stadium is served by the adjacent METRO Green development. Metro Transit staff are currently existing or planned transit METRO Orange Line (BRT) Line and A Line BRT and is expected to generate exploring opportunities for TOD on the park & ride service. Map 1 shows the Gold Line (BRT) C Line (BRT) a large number of transit riders. Long-term plans site that will maintain existing bus service. current TOD priority sites. 65th Ave & Rush Line (BRT) Brooklyn Blvd P&R for the area envision the remaking of a former Hwy 252 & 73rd Ave Fridley auto-oriented superblock into a mixed-use, transit 28th Avenue Station The first step to implement P&R Station 63rd Ave & P&R oriented village surrounding the stadium. Bottineau a Joint Development Blvd P&R 28th Avenue Station on the METRO Blue Line project is performing due Central Station Block contains a 1,585-space park & ride divided between diligence in collaboration a 5-story parking ramp and two surface lots. The site Robbinsdale I-35W & with local communities Transit Center County Rd C P&R Maplewood Mall The 1.66-acre Central Station Block site in downtown is located in the City of Bloomington’s redeveloping and stakeholders. If a Joint Transit Center Saint Paul is intersected by one of the busiest South Loop district near MSP International Airport Development project is likely Como & stations on the METRO Green Line. The currently and the Mall of America. The long-term vision for Wayzata Blvd & Eustis to be in the Council’s best Barry Ave P&R P&R vacant site is owned by both the Council and the the area calls for a mix of uses and increased density interest and is supported Cedar-Riverside Snelling City of Saint Paul HRA and is within a short walking centered around the district’s four light rail stations. 2425 Bus Barn by the local community, Franklin OMF Minnehaha distance of many of the unique features of downtown Metro Transit staff are currently assessing the a competitive solicitation Blake Rd Lift Station 38th Central Saint Paul including Lowertown, Rice Park, Mears feasibility of TOD on both the surface parking lots as Street Station may be released. A Station Block Park and the Mississippi Riverfront, making the well as integrated with the parking ramp. Woodbury competitive solicitation for Theater P&R location prime for infill development. Following a Fort Joint Development seeks Snelling thorough due diligence effort and coordination with Como and Eustis Park & Ride P&R to identify a development the City of Saint Paul, a Request for Proposals to Como and Eustis is a 38-space park and ride with partner who shares the redevelop the Central Station Block is expected to local bus service to the University of Minnesota, Council’s vision for the site 28th Avenue be released in early 2019. and who has the capacity Station downtown Minneapolis, downtown Saint Paul and north Minneapolis. The TOD Office has to implement the Joint S. Bloomington Transit Center 2425 Minnehaha Avenue Cedar Cottage been working with the City of Saint Paul and The Development. Grove Grove Station P&R Metro Transit’s police force will be relocating from Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) The following pages contain their existing facility along Minnehaha Avenue in to explore a TOD on this 0.9-acre site located in the an update on several Joint Minneapolis to a new building adjacent to Metro desirable St. Anthony Park neighborhood. MnDOT Development projects at Transit’s Heywood Office Building in mid-2019. As has an easement over a portion of the property and various stages in the process. the site will no longer be needed by Metro Transit, is considering vacating the easement to make a Joint the building will be offered for Joint Development. Development feasible at this location. The site is within a half-mile of the METRO Blue 1 Federal Transit Administration Z For more information, please visit www.metrotransit.org/tod May 2018 Line’s Franklin Avenue station and is served by local Circular 7050.1A Map 1: The Council’s TOD Priority Sites bus route 9. 2 3 2018 TOD Funding by Program Hennepin County TOD Program plans for the METRO Gold Line, while Hennepin County has been working on implementation plans LCDA-TOD Through its TOD program, Hennepin County for the METRO Blue Line Extension station areas. TBRA-TOD Site Investigation supports projects that enhance transit usage, TOD Pre-Development In 2019, under the METRO Blue Line’s TOD Pilot increase density along key transit corridors and Hennepin County TOD Planning Grant, the Council’s TOD Office will lead LCDA-TOD Zoning reinforce the community. Council staff supported the efforts to determine innovative financing strategies Implementation review of applications for Hennepin County’s TOD for the implementation plans for these station TOD Funding Eligible Areas program in 2018. A total of $2.2 million in grants and areas. The planning efforts under these grants are financing were distributed to seven projects in 2018.