Appendix B

The Relationship Between
Joint Development and Livable Communities

The following graphic is a Venn diagram showing the relationships between Livable Communities, Joint Development, and subsets of both. In a discussion of Joint Development, it is important to remember that it is a technique with several potential aims. Only some of those aims have anything to do with transit.

Joint Development and Livable Communities are global concepts. Joint Development, by FTA's definition, is development around a transit facility that is functionally or physically related to the facility. Livable Communities is a concept of a pedestrian- friendly, clean, safe, and convenient residential and/or commercial neighborhood. Joint Development may lead to a Livable Community, or contribute to it, but neither is a necessary precondition for the other.

Transit Oriented Development is a subset of Livable Communities. It is more under community control than under transit control, though the effective use of transit's presence may foster its successful implementation. However, in view of the significant influence of transit on livability, most of the Transit Oriented Development set is demonstrated by the intersection of Livable Communities and Joint Development.

Transit Oriented Joint Development, then, is the subset comprising joint development projects undertaken with a livable communities goal. In such projects, while the surrounding community cooperates with the transit system, it is the transit system that provides the leadership and means for undertaking the project.