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Transportation for Livable Communities
Through its Transportation for Livable Communities program, MTC has since early 1998 been providing planning funds and technical assistance to communities that want to make their environments friendlier to pedestrians, bicyclists and public transit riders. The programs acronym, TLC, is no accident; it indicates MTC's intent to lavish some tender loving care on town centers, public transit hubs, key streets and the like as a way of fostering community vitality and recapturing some of that small-town atmosphere that has been lost in many Bay Area cities. Planning/technical assistance grants can range from as low as $5,000 to as much as $50,000. A number of the grants have gone to efforts to provide housing, offices, shops and other desirable land uses in the vicinity of existing or future transit stations. One of the more unique beneficiaries is a proposed campus for a consortium of agencies serving disabled persons that would be built adjacent to the Ashby BART station in Berkeley. In late 1998, the program entered a new phase when MTC began soliciting applications for capital grants to implement TLC-type projects. MTC has set aside $54 million in flexible federal funding for such grants over the next six years. -- Brenda Kahn |
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