Printable VersionGold Line Team Coordinates With Local Planning Efforts
As RTD conducts the Gold Line Environmental Impact Study (EIS), many local municipalities are busy conducting or preparing for their own station-area planning efforts.
Development plans for the areas surrounding proposed stations are separate from the Gold Line EIS, but many towns are integrating RTD’s proposed alternatives into their own planning efforts. The RTD FasTracks team has been working with the local municipalities to provide input and guidance.
Transit-oriented developments (TODs) are pedestrian-friendly communities, often built around a mass transit station, that encourage residents and workers to use alternative means of transportation. The City of Wheat Ridge has been working with the non-profit Wheat Ridge 2020 to organize planning meetings for the proposed end-of-line station at Ward Road. Similarly, the City of Arvada held planning meetings last year and recently revealed its conceptual plans for land use around potential station areas in Arvada. Adams County is also working on development plans around the proposed Pecos station. Meanwhile, the City and County of Denver has decided to postpone its planning meetings for the 38th Avenue and Inca station until summer of 2007 to allow time for a preferred alternative(s) to be selected for the Gold Line.
Even though station area planning is managed by the individual cities and not RTD, the Gold Line team will work together with the municipalities to integrate land use plans surrounding proposed stations.
The Related Links section of the website has links to the websites for local municipal station-area planning efforts.
