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Walnut Creek Council presses MTC for flexible Transit-Oriented Communities implementation
Summary
City staff told the council the Metropolitan Transportation Commission's Transit-Oriented Communities policy as implemented would be unworkable for Walnut Creek's BART-area planning and asked the MTC board for alternative compliance paths; council voted 5-0 to transmit staff'recommended comments asking for flexibility.
Walnut Creek City Council on Oct. 21 voted to send a comment letter to the Metropolitan Transportation Commission asking that MTC adopt a more flexible approach to implementing its Transit-Oriented Communities (TOC) policy.
Community Development Director Erica Vandenbrand told the council that the TOC policy, adopted by MTC in September 2022, assigns points for jurisdictional compliance based on a half-mile radius around transit stations and sets targets that Walnut Creek cannot meet under the policy's current scoring and geography. Vandenbrand said the policy evaluates an entire circle around the Walnut Creek and Pleasant Hill BART stations rather than the city's established Priority Development Areas and the two specific plans (West Downtown and North Downtown) that were developed with…
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