DATE: May 6, 2025
TO: Mayor and City Council
FROM: Director of Public Works
SUBJECT
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Adopt a Resolution Committing the City to Take Steps Towards Achieving Compliance with the Metropolitan Transportation Commission's Transit-Oriented Communities Policy
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RECOMMENDATION
Recommendation
That the City Council adopts a resolution (Attachments II) committing the City to take steps towards compliance with the Metropolitan Transportation Commission’s (MTC) Transit-Oriented Communities (TOC) Policy, which will allow the City to receive grants for parking management and station access grants.
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SUMMARY
MTC, the metropolitan planning organization for the Bay Area, adopted the TOC Policy as part of a broader strategy to reduce vehicle miles traveled. The TOC Policy seeks to concentrate development around transit station areas, which have trips that are often shorter in length and more easily served by transit, bicycling, and walking.
To help local jurisdictions implement the TOC Policy, MTC released a call for technical assistance in October 2024. The City requested technical assistance for parking management and station access and circulation planning, and was awarded $600,000 in funding for these two studies.
To receive this technical assistance, MTC requires local jurisdictions to adopt resolutions committing to make progress towards compliance with the TOC Policy. The studies will help the City make progress by identifying appropriate parking management strategies around the City’s two BART stations and identifying multimodal access and circulation improvements around the Hayward BART station. The station access and circulation study will support and overlap BART’s ongoing transit-oriented development planning for the Hayward BART station.
ATTACHMENTS
Attachment I Staff Report
Attachment II Resolution