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Smaller Zones for Individual Uses

A photo of a commercial center with people walking. — Paseo de San Antonio, San José, CA. (Source: Flickr - Sergio Ruiz)

Transit Zones

An aerial illustration of the Berryessa BART map with the different districts. — Berryessa BART Urban Village Plan (Source: BART)

Parking at or near stations should be structured, leaving surface areas available for active uses, including community gathering.

A photo of a multi-story parking structure at the Berryessa BART Station. — Structured Parking - Berryessa Station, San José, CA

Community Centered Development Standards

A photo of light rail traveling with high-rises in the background. — MUNI TOD, San Francisco, CA (Source: Flickr - Jim Maurer)

Promote neighborhood vitality and a balanced mix of uses through standards for jobs/housing ratio, adjustments to setbacks, provision of public open space, and maximum parking requirements...

Accessory and Attached Dwelling Unit Incentives

A photo of an modern ADU. — Accessory Dwelling Unit (Source: Flickr - Sightline Institute)

Master Plans

An illustration of a community with a mixed-use buildings and parks. — Lawrence Station Area Plan, Santa Clara, CA (Source: City of Santa Clara)

Unified Development Ordinance

A graphic of a showing that public life, developers, land-use, transit standards, local jurisdictions, urban patterns, and environmental standards are all inter-related. — Unified Development Ordinance

Overlay Zones

A graphic of the Berryessa BART Urban Village Plan land-use map showing mixed-use, residential, etc zones. — Berryessa BART Urban Village Plan (Source: BART)

Performance Zoning

A photo of lawn area and water feature next to mixed-use developments. — Santana Row, San José, CA

Interdisciplinary Approach

A graphic showing that schools, fire department, developers, transit agencies, government agencies, and land architects are all connected to each other and a street. — Layered Approach to Street Design

Cross-training engineers and planners creates a collaborative environment for designing and developing streets.

Planners’ role. Generally, planners work with the community to define the goals...

Functional Classifications

A graph showing the trade off of increasing access and increase mobility. For example local streets have high access, but low mobility and freeways have high mobility and low access. — Access vs. Mobility

Build in flexibility. Use engineering design discretion to design streets in context with surrounding land uses. Look at the full range of values provided in design manuals, rather than default to the...

Speed Limits

A photo of a local street with a 20 mph sign, neighborhood greenway sign, trees, and a cyclist. — Neighborhood Greenway

Quick Build Projects

Develop an outreach plan and expect lots of comments. Quick-build projects are public beta tests. They allow local agencies to get input on a design and modify it before it becomes permanent. Because...

Tort Liability

A graphic showing how document, design, and decisions can deviate from standards but take steps to prevent tort liability. — Document design rationale and mitigation measures to ensure safety.

Multi-Modal Perspective at the Agency Level

An illustration of a city block pointing to multi-modal, pedestrian-priority, transit-priority, and bicycle-priority areas. — Multi-Modal Approach to Street Design

Modernize Transportation Analysis Policies

Graphic showing map with yellow, orange, red, and green colors indicating with higher or lower levels of VMT — Sample VMT heat map which can be used in CEQA screening; green and yellow areas have lower VMT, orange and red areas have higher VMT

Adopt Performance Standards for Active Modes

Photo of a person riding a bicycle with a helmet in a protected bikeway with planter boxes of large grasses between the bikeway and a vehicle lane — Protected bike lane, which would improve Bicycle Level of Traffic Stress (Source: Flickr -Dylan Passmore)

Update Level of Service (LOS) Analysis Practices

Graphic of a map of the North Bayshore Area of Mountain View with green, yellow, orange, and red areas — Examples of land uses with trip caps or robust TDM programs - Mountain View North Bayshore area

Photo of older brown stone building with red roof and ornate archways — Examples of land uses with trip caps or robust TDM programs - Stanford University main campus (Source: Flickr Madhan Kumar)

Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) and Multimodal Improvements

Photo of two bicyclists using a bicycle lane between a vehicle lane and parked cars on a partly sunny day — Bicycle infrastructure can contribute to reducing Vehicle Miles Traveled

Consider Broader Mitigation Frameworks

Graphic of a bus approaching a signalized intersection and the bus is able to use an optical emitter to call to the optimal detector to request priority at the signal — Examples of items that could be funded with a broader mitigation framework - Transit Signal Priority

Graphic showing an artists rendering of a reconstructed intersection with landscaping on all four corners, short pedestrian crossing distances, separated bikeways, and cars and buses traveling — Example of items that could be funded with a broader mitigation framework - Complete Streets Improvements

Develop a Program Environmental Impact Report (EIR)

Graphic with blue text explaining the process for developing an Environmental Impact Report — Process for developing an Environmental Impact Report

Graphic showing the process for developing a Program EIR with blue icons and white text — Process for developing a Program Environmental Impact Report

Changing the Cost of Commuting

Photo of Express Lane pricing on a Bay Area freeway — Freeway Express Lane Pricing

Helping Communities Leave Their Cars at Home

Graphic of a map of a downtown with callout boxes of policies and programs that incentivize people to not drive for traveling — Support transportation demand management and reduce single occupant vehicle use

Transportation Demand Management and the Development Process

Photo of two train station platforms with signs and trees with a taller building in the background — Diridon Station Area, Transit Oriented Development, San José, CA (Source: Flickr - Sergio Ruiz)

Transportation Management Associations

Transportation Management Associations

COVID-19 Vaccination Policy Frequently Asked Questions

Updated on 03/07/22

*clarification on exemption process with regards to an appeal (question C.9)

A. Overview

1. What is VTA’s vaccination requirement and where can I find more...