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Area plans are an important part of how the city adapts to change and addresses key issues, such as housing affordability, walkability, and reducing carbon emissions. To learn more about area planning in general\u00a0visit the info page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

They offer a chance to dive deeply into issues and concerns in specific parts of the city. In this case, the focus is on neighborhoods along New Bern Avenue. In addition to thinking about making the most of the BRT investment, this process also recognizes that concerns already existed about housing affordability and displacement in those neighborhoods. This plan is a way to address those issues.<\/p>\n

Equitable Development Around Transit <\/p>\n

We\u2019ve started to think about those issues broadly as part of the\u00a0Equitable Development Around Transit<\/a> plan. That process looked at all four BRT corridors<\/a> and looked to answer two big questions:\u00a0<\/p>\n

1) To what extent should Raleigh grow more around transit, as opposed to driving, in the future?\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

2) How do we ensure the benefits of BRT are shared equitably?\u00a0<\/p>\n

We heard clearly that Raleigh should work toward becoming a much more sustainable and transit-oriented city, and that affordable housing is absolutely critical.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve published the\u00a0Equitable Transit-Oriented Development Guidebook<\/a>, which outlines a path toward meeting those goals.<\/p>\n

It includes strategies and tools for allowing more people to live and work in areas near BRT, to improve housing affordability and choice, and to make it easier and safer to go places by walking or biking.<\/p>\n

This process will tailor those strategies to the New Bern Avenue corridor. <\/p>\n

What are the main tasks involved in the plan?<\/p>\n

We started this process by\u00a0hearing from you on the most important issues<\/a>\u00a0to tackle. We heard that walkability and pedestrian safety are critical, and that thinking about places to live, work, and shop near BRT \u2013 and working to address affordability \u2013 are key topics.<\/p>\n

This process, which separate from the design of the New Bern BRT itself, will involve the following major elements:<\/p>\n

Study\u00a0the current conditions of the area. This includes research\u00a0on housing costs, identifying areas that are challenging to pedestrians, and neighborhoods that have easy access to jobs and shopping.
\nUnderstand\u00a0how area residents, businesses, and institutions would like for their neighborhoods to make the best use of BRT and address other issues.
\nDevelop Strategies\u00a0to help residents of all income levels afford to live in the area, make it safer to walk, and look to identify other goals.
\nCreate a Plan\u00a0for each station area that includes zoning changes, new programs, and funding sources to make the plan a reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Area plans are an important part of how the city adapts to change and addresses key issues, such…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[10],"tags":[104,1684],"class_list":["post-62402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bern","tag-bern","tag-project"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116540764714033432","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}