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The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) approved 26 grants totaling $7.3 million to support local plans for higher-density development, including an $800,000 grant to update the existing...

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OAKLAND, CA — The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) this month teams up with AC Transit to begin offering residents of select transit-oriented development (TOD) complexes around the East...

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OAKLAND, CA — As part of their preparations for the Rail~Volution conference (that will bring more than 1,000 transportation and urban planning professionals to San Francisco next week), the...

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OAKLAND, CA — It makes good sense to place compact, affordable housing at transit hubs, and now the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) is giving a substantial financial boost to the cause...

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MTC this week announced the release of $60 million in planning and capital grants to support local implementation of MTC’s Transit-Oriented Communities (TOC) Policy and Climate Initiatives Program...

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Former Richmond Mayor Irma Anderson , who represented the Cities of Contra Costa County at the Metropolitan Transportation Commission from 2003 to 2007, died Sunday at 93 During her tenure at MTC, Ms...

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The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) today adopted a new Transit-Oriented Communities Policy designed to boost the overall housing supply and increase residential densities in transit-rich...

Transit-oriented communities (TOCs) enable people to access and use transit more often for more types of trips by centering housing, jobs, services and shopping around public transit. They are places...

MidPen Housing and Eden Housing, two non-profit organizations, for providing affordable transit-oriented developments for low-income residents including families, the formerly homeless, disabled...