Community/Neighborhood Development

The Ricmond Regional Equitable Development Initiative (REDI)

The purpose of this research is to:

  • Provide overall research assistance to REDI in their efforts to develop concrete policies in relation to the general plan. Primary responsibility will be for research on land use; secondary responsibility will be for housing and economic development; tertiary responsibility will be for transportation and community health.
  • Provide general access to the resources of the University of California, including forging contacts between REDI and researchers in different departments whose work can benefit the collaborative.
  • Assist REDI in developing in-house planning skills, including the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology.
  • Develop presentations, reports, and white papers that assist REDI in community education, outreach, organizing and lobbying efforts around the General Plan.
  • Review and comment on documents produced by other REDI collaborators.
  • Make presentation to REDI team members on policy issues and the results of the above mentioned research.
  • Conduct REDI Leadership Institute sessions for local activities, leaders and residents as needed.
  • Provide a student intern for nine (9) hours per week who will be the primary person responsible for the above mentioned tasks. This researcher will work both from Urban Habitat and from UC Berkeley as necessary, and will work under their combined guidance.

 

Principal Investigator:
Karen Chapple

Contact Information:
Tel:  510.642.1868
Email:  chapple@berkeley.edu
Website: http://communityinnovation.berkeley.edu

Funding Information:
Urban Habitat

Start Date: 12/1/06

Mixed-Income Neighborhoods and TODs in the Bay Area: Lessons Learned and Strategies for the Future

The purpose of this project was to frame and support the Transit Oriented Development Collaborative (TODC) work advocating mixed-income transit-oriented development in the Bay Area. An initial framing paper made the case for why mixed income housing must be a part of all transit-oriented development and why transit is so important to mixed-income communities by assessing the need for mixed-income housing near the region's transit nodes and demonstrating the potential implementation tools that can be used across the region. Based on the paper, we coordinated a day-long workshop to focus on the opportunities and constraints for producing mixed-income housing at a particular emerging Bay Area TOD. This workshop provided feedback on the regional framing paper and helped to hone the particular tools and strategies that will advance mixed-income development at the identified TOD site.

Principal Researchers:
Karen Chapple

Funded By:
U.C. Transportation Center - Caltrans

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