LTC, Jack R. Widmeyer Transportation Research Conference, Going to San Bernardino A Symposium on Intermodal Transit Stations and Transit-Oriented Design, 11/06/2009, Jeff Mayer

Jeff MayerChair, Urban Land Institute

Orange County / Inland Empire

• Mission: to provide leadership in the responsible use of land and in creating and sustaining thriving communities worldwide.

• “All ULI cares about is density” – No

• ULI @ quality development in a financially viable, responsible & sustainable manner.

ULI

• bringing leaders together

• fostering collaboration

• exploring land use and development issues

• advancing policies and practicessharing knowledge• creating a global network with local impact

• Best Practices

• Lessons Learned

• Objectivity

• Not lobbying org. – Educational, Advocacy

• “go to” organization for unbiased, up-to-the-minute land use expertise.

Priorities

• Infrastructure

• Sustainable Communities

• Housing

• Capital Markets

• Placemaking / Public Realm

• Development at the Edge

• Places of Commerce

Infrastructure

Statewide TOD Marketplace viaULI Community Action Grant - ULI branded program studyingdevelopment along hi speed rail corridor- looking for cities to participate. TAP’sin each region

• TOD Marketplace –Riverside, Corona, Ontario, Placentia. Recommendations

from these four TAPswill be presented at

the ULI Orange County/Inland Empire

TOD Marketplace on January 19, 2010, at the Ontario Convention Center,

from 7:30- 11:30 am.

OC/IE Sustainable Communities Council

• Our Mission: proactively identify and promote best practices in sustainable development in OC – IE through proactive education, awareness, collaboration, outreach and community/stakeholder involvement.

Sustainable Communities

• No. & So. CA focus groups conducted 2007 “California 2020: A Path to Implementation” -

• 2008- paper and blog: “Responsible Land Use: A Path to a Sustainable California by 2020”published by California 2020 www.ca2020.org

• 2007-2009 ULI SF members participated in ClimatePlan coalition/strategic plan www.climateplanca.org

• August 2008 ULI - 5 CA District Councils sent comments on Draft Climate Change Scoping Plan letter to Mary Nichols @ CA Air Resources Board

• ULI members, who chair SustainabllityCommittees for District Councils in CA met last night in SF.

• How ULI can share expertise with mayors to help them plan for meeting AB32 targets & implementing SB375.

SCAG’s SB375 Working Group meetings –> sustainable communities strategy for MPO to implement SB375.

Housing

• Attacking methods to deliver housing at affordable price close to where people work

Urban MarketplaceJune 8, 2010

Co-hosts:• OC League of Cities• Redevelopment Agencies• COG’s• City Managers Assn.• Planning Directors Assn. Focus: “Next Generation of Urban

Development” How are we going to do it right? What’s it going to look like? Who are the players? Are the cities prepared?

Capital Markets

• Residential Mortgage delinquencies have a long way to go

• Commercial mortgage debt is beginning to crush the industry. $1.4T of mortgage dbt maturing with no place to go

Banks are just beginning to failRetailers and commercial feel full impact in 2010: 20% vacancy rates

Capital Markets

• State taking redev. $- hurts all markets;

• Cost increases in retirement funds

• Next summer, assessor: bottom year for assessed value -> property taxes down -> (city to feel full impact in 2010, 2011)