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<br />section3 <br /> <br />Land Use "Resources conl!/1(J('d <br /> <br /> <br />best practices & resources <br /> <br />Northeast Urban Tree Center - Tools for assessing Urban Tree Health and EstablishIng <br />Design Guidelines lltlp-lIwW\'J turw'iS rdtJ/lIrb;1I11fPp/m(JI(~rts')111ml <br /> <br />Air Pollution Removal Calculator: This program 1$ designed to estimate pollution removal <br />and value for urban trees based on basic user inputs about the study area (e,g, a park). <br />This program uses local data analyzed for various CltlCS by the Urban Forest Effecls (UFORE) <br />model. hltll://wwwls feel u<Jnp!svfFl(U<;clfools/1oolc; 111m <br /> <br />Ord inanccslRcsolutions: <br />Visit the Congress for New Urbanisms Web site for a listIng of Model TOO Ordinances. <br />Ilttn:l!www,CIlll.oro.'o(jf/r:odp. ratalog 8-1-01 pdf <br /> <br />Model Ordinances for Traditional Neighborhood Design and Neighborhood Preservation <br />tmn:IIWNVoJ o;OlmI9rowtl1oro/litJI ;-lrvilJvlcir IVDC<1Sn?tvD= 1 &res,- 1400 <br /> <br />American Planning Association's Growing Smart legislative Guidebook: Model Statutes for <br />Planning and the Management of Change I1l1o:lIwv....w olallninaoro!(]rowln(]<;lnml <br />Guidelines for Developing and Evaluating Tree Ordinances A wcbslte from the USDA Forest <br />Service and the International Society of Arboricutture. which includes InformatIon on <br />plannIng for an ordinancc, drafting an ordinance and evaluating an ordinance. <br />IltID.llwv.N.... is;hlrlJOr com/oubIICallon<;/orciulancc a~DX <br /> <br />Transportation <br /> <br />Best Practices <br /> <br />Honolulu's Bus Rapid Transit Program <br />A steady growth in passengers choosing the bus for thClr commute has accompanied the <br />expansion of Honolulu's Bus Rapid TranSit (BRT) program. Monthly ridership has increased <br />from about 100.000 riders since 1999, when the program began, to over 630.000 In 2005 <br />Assuming that half of SRT ridership represcnts a shift from trips made in passenger vehicles <br />to trips taken on BRI this equated to an annual CO2 reduction of approximately 7.000 tons. <br /> <br />Portland's Light Rail System <br />The TnMet Metropolitan Area Express (MAX) light rail system. serving 64 stations over 44 <br />miles of track in the Portland metropol1tan area, sees 97.000 trips each weekday More <br />than $3 billion in development has occurred along MAX lines since the decision to build <br />was made in 1978. MAX ridership now eliminates 22.2 million car trips per year. offsetting <br />an estimated 26.400 tons of CO2 annually. while redUCIng traffic, improving air quality, and <br />preserving neighborhood livability. and public transIt use has grown 75 percent since 1990. <br /> <br />Philadelphia's Carsharing for the City Fleet <br />The City of Philadelphia and PhlllyCarShare Instituted a novel car sharing system that <br />includes both local residents and government employees. The program replaced 330 <br />municipal vehicles and saved the City $2 million each year. In the community. 1.200 citizen <br />vehicles were replaced saving residents $5.5 million in costs and reducing vehicle travel by <br />8.2 million fewer miles per year. <br />