Sustainable Communities: Local Initiatives Support Corporation

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Sustainable Communities Local Initiatives
Support Corporation
Residential TOD site 7th Ave/Buckeye
Commercial TOD site Central Ave
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Our Mission

• LISC is dedicated to helping nonprofit community
  development organizations transform distressed
  neighborhoods into healthy and sustainable
  communities of choice and opportunity good
  places to work, do business and raise children.
• LISC mobilizes corporate, government and
  philanthropic support to provide local community
  development organizations with
• loans, grants, and equity investment
• local, statewide, and national policy support
• technical and management assistance capacity
  building
• best practices.

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Our New Vision

• Our attention has increasingly turned to the
  next phase of neighborhood building - not just
  focusing on building healthy places, but also on
  creating sustainable communities - places of
  choice - where human opportunity and
  socio-economic vitality combine with a continuous
  process of growth, adaptation, and improvement.
• Our goal is to build Sustainable Communities in
  LISC communities across the country.

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Our Role

• We underwrite real estate developments, but
  also integrate those efforts with other
  strategies, all in the context of a given
  neighborhoods overall vision.
• We will also become more engaged in building
  integrated relationships among residents,
  funders, policy makers and others.

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LISC Phoenix Timeline for Transportation
Involvement

• 2007 LISC Phoenix convenes forum on Creating a
  Sustainable Future for our Communities, Changing
  our Patterns of Development, Valley Metro
  attends Steering Committee formed to create
  civic engagement project
• 2008 (spring) LISC national convenes workshop
  on transportation issues LISC staff get primer
  on accessing transportation funding with focus on
  neighborhoods encouraged to get involved in
  local transportation issues.

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LISC Phoenix Timeline for Transportation
Involvement

• 2008 (summer) LISC Phoenix begins participating
  in I-10 West extension Community Working Group.
• 2008 (summer) LISC Phoenix attends ADOT public
  hearing learns about TIME Coalition, files
  public comments of concern about lack of
  participation.
• 2008 (summer) LISC Phoenix meets with Sonoran
  Institute/ AARP/Gov. Smart Growth Cabinet to
  discuss bringing in national experts to vet TIME
  Coalition proposal for ballot

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LISC Phoenix Timeline for Transportation
Involvement

• 2008 (summer/fall) TIME Coalition ballot
  proposal fails to make ballot Shannon Scutari
  cites need for grassroots coalition to increase
  participation in transportation planning and
  policy.
• 2008-2009 (fall/winter) Emerging coalition
  holds forums on transportation, casts wide net.
• 2009 (spring) LISC Phoenix attends Friends of
  Transit forum and Arizona Town Hall on
  Transportation Let the collaborating begin!

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Transportation and Livable Communities (TLC)
Conveners

• Bringing new partners to the transportation/transi
  t discussion
• Community development and neighborhood
  non-profits
• Environmental and conservation groups
• Mobility issues for aging populations
• Education institutions, civic and philanthropic
  foundations

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Transportation and Livable Communities (TLC)
Next Steps (from 9/25/08 forum)

• Public hearings being scheduled for
  transportation plans need to expand community
  outreach for these
• Identify key legislators for Joint advocacy -
  generate
• political will
• Upcoming election is critical to get
  transportation changes
• Need toolbox for cities to connect land use and
  transportation
• Visioning Activity (State/Region)

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Transportation and Livable Communities (TLC)
Next Steps (continued)

• Look at neighborhood level planning
• Integrate transportation into other issues
• Coordinate efforts
• Need to educate and explain scenarios (visually?)
• Raise funds

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Next Steps
New Issues, New Opportunities

• T4America re-authorization of federal
  transportation legislation LISC is a national
  partner in broad coalition of sectors advocating
  reform
• Center for Neighborhood Technologies creates new
  tool to educate consumers about
  housing/transportation link

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Next Steps
New Tools
EPA/Phoenix/Mesa workshop and tools for TOD
2008 Housing Transportation Survey OF ARIZONA
EMPLOYERS
Click on the following Link http//www.azfoundati
on.org/File/content/HTSurvey_Sept08_Small.pdf
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Next Steps

• Potential new partners
• ULI/Valley Forward/Phoenix Community Alliance
  all have transportation committees who want to be
  involved
• Arizona State University Stardust
  Center/GIOS/PURL
• Capitol Mall Association/West Mesa CDC
  neighborhood non-profits whose residents are
  affected by transit extension