Walk to Work Homes Upward Mobility

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Walk to Work Homes Upward Mobility

• Walk to work apts/condos for tech workers
• The most cost-effective suburban traffic
  reduction policy (ever). SF ?? San Jose (swap)
• Priority access to new housing for short
  commuters
• 50 monthly price incentives for good commutes
• Bad location decision creates negative economic
  externality for society. So, internalize the
  cost
• ? Improve tech worker quality of life and leave
  low income folks farther behind ?
• Low income upward mobility
• package deal job, home, job training, better
  schools for kids, more family time. Boost up the
  ladder.

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3 Steps for Housing Preference

• 1) a city agrees to a preference scheme
  designating
• a) qualifications for entering households to
  achieve preferred status and
• b) financial incentives for developers who adopt
  such schemes
• 2) applicable rental/for-sale housing units are
  priced to ensure high demand (must have a waiting
  list)
• 3) preferred people are granted priority for
  those housing units
• Monthly incent continued co-location
• NOT teacher / police preference
• INSTEAD IT IS commute impact.

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Most cost-effective congestion reduction

• Tumlin most cost-effective peak hour trip
  reduction provide housing for workers. GUP 0
  new net trips
• Anthony Downs (Still Stuck in Traffic) a) learn
  to cope with traffic congestion in the short run,
  b) in the long run, jobs and housing will
  eventually co-locate
• Cervero co-location hasnt been happening.
  "Average journey to work distance has been
  increasing, jobs/hsng continues to exacerbate"
• Thus, need co-location policy
• Potential 1M DUs in 200 largest office parks.

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Active Research Thought Leaders

• Virtual think tank with 50 thought leaders
• William Fulton
• ULI, HUD, EPA, MTC, SVLG, Fannie Mae, TLUC
• Larry Rosenthal, Berkeley Program on Housing
• Jim Grow, National Housing Law Project
• Linda Nichols, CA State Housing Community
  Development housing policy
• Mark Stivers, CA Senate transportation and
  housing committee
• Mariia Zimmerman, Reconnecting America
• Joe Molinaro, National Association of Realtors
• 2 examples Novatos Hamilton Field, Stanford
  Housing
• 17 teacher/police schemes in Bay Area
• 2 SF coffee roundtables, 1 in DC
• Proposal for 25K DU Coyote Valley new town
• 100M annual VMT reduction.

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Culture Low Mileage Community

• Non auto-centric culture
• Good Samaritan-ism (make it easy. Comes out in
  TDM interviews)
• EBays online community phenomenon
• Make friends, achieve social status
• Self polices bad behavior.

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Low Mileage Scheme

• New 100 DU residential complex
• Everyone signs low mileage pledge
• Entry condition to obtain housing
• Manufacture a tipping point its cool to be
  green
• Currently, its often dumb to be green
• Positive peer pressure
• Problem-solving think tank. Online in person
• Carpool to grocery store
• Ex Biking learning curve route, gear, defensive
• People love to share such self-discovered
  expertise
• Delivery services, etc.

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Digital Hitchhiking

• Exploit GIS patterns
• Bus safe hitchhiking
• RFID cellular.

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END Not covered

• Superblock transformation into new urbanist,
  walkable with PRT to span arterials
• Gated, automated, paid smart parking
• Bowling alone
• Small murphy bed housing
• Grocery shopping w/o trunk ?
• Homeless
• Evil office facilities managers
• Kitchen sink green construction, gray water
  recycling, etc..

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Call to Action

• Get 100 folks to view the Redmond/MS animation
• Join an online social network O2 yahoo groups,
  planetwork.net (IT envt)
• 15 to 39 year-olds are crucial
• Live a 62 MBTU / year life. Early green
  adopter
• Get involved in Redmonds Overlake Plan
• Write a thorough efficient city vision paper.