WELCOME to the engagement hub for Equitable Transit-Oriented Development (ETOD) planning at the North Lamar Transit Center and the South Congress Transit Center station areas! We invite you to review the information on this page about the planning process and community engagement that led to the adopted plans.
Planning for Station Areas
Station area planning is a community-driven approach to crafting a vision for the area surrounding a transit station. Station Area Vision Plans establish a framework for the future development of the 1/2 mile-radius areas surrounding the transit stations and the interface with the transit stations themselves.
To support implementation of the Project Connect transit system, the City and CapMetro have partnered to develop station area vision plans that support equitable transit-oriented development in the vicinity of Project Connect stations. The first set of station areas identified for future planning – North Lamar Transit Center and South Congress Transit Center – were identified because these areas are existing transit hubs that will benefit from station area planning and can serve as prototypes for equitable station area planning in other similar locations. By coordinating with existing planning efforts already underway and funded, the City can quickly begin applying the objectives outlined in the ETOD Policy Toolkit in these areas.
The station area planning engagement process kicked off with a series of workshops involving community members near the North Lamar and South Congress Transit Centers in the spring of 2023. A second round of engagement took place in the fall of 2023.
The initial draft plans based on this engagement are available for your review in the Documents section of this page, to the right. The plans will undergo further updates and finalization following this third round of engagement in the fall of 2024. Staff will continue to find opportunities to share station area information with the community at future engagement events. Click the following links to read the summaries of Round 1 and Round 2 of engagement for the station area vision plans.
Please refer to the project timeline on the right for to review the engagement and public hearing dates.