AWAKENING THE POSSIBILITIES: - The City of Titusville, Florida
AWAKENING THE POSSIBILITIES: - The City of Titusville, Florida
AWAKENING THE POSSIBILITIES: - The City of Titusville, Florida
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<strong>AWAKENING</strong> <strong>THE</strong> <strong>POSSIBILITIES</strong>:<br />
BALANCING NATURE & COMMERCE ON FLORIDA'S SPACE COAST<br />
TREASURE COAST REGIONAL PLANNING COUNCIL<br />
June 2011<br />
… <strong>The</strong> East<br />
Coast <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Florida</strong> is<br />
Paradise<br />
Regained …<br />
(slogan from<br />
<strong>Florida</strong> East Coast<br />
Railway advertising<br />
poster, 1898)
Why Should I Care About<br />
Transportation and Land Use?
2010 Most Congested Regions in US:<br />
Southeast <strong>Florida</strong> Rankings<br />
#7 in Travel Delay<br />
140 Million hours lost per year<br />
#8 in Congestion Costs<br />
$3.2 Billion wasted per year<br />
SOURCE: TTI 2010 Urban Mobility Report (Dec 2010)
A Paradigm Shift
Predictability?<br />
“Let our advance worrying become<br />
advance thinking and planning.”<br />
-- Winston Churchill
Why Transit?<br />
For Every $1 Spent on Transit,<br />
<strong>The</strong>re is an $8 Return<br />
(in increased productivity, reduction <strong>of</strong> fuel consumption,<br />
(in increased productivity, reduction <strong>of</strong> fuel consumption,<br />
increased land values, and reduced road construction)<br />
SOURCE: Cambridge Systematics
What is TOD …<br />
TTransit ansit OOriented iented De Development elopment<br />
• Walkable “villages” villages located at & around transit<br />
stations in a ¼ to ½ mile ring<br />
• Contains broad mix <strong>of</strong> uses (such ( as residential, ,<br />
<strong>of</strong>fice, retail, entertainment, civic/cultural)<br />
• Tie-into local transit (Palm-Tran, trolleys)<br />
• Densities appropriate to context<br />
• More compact than surrounding areas<br />
• Built il around d civic i i plazas l &<br />
community spaces<br />
• AAppropriate i t treatment t t t<strong>of</strong> fparking ki<br />
(shared, reduced & structured)
TOD vs. TAD<br />
• Transit Oriented<br />
Development<br />
vs.<br />
• Transit Adjacent<br />
Development<br />
– Auto-oriented uses<br />
– Large surface parking lots<br />
– Suburban <strong>of</strong>fice campuses<br />
– Big-box format retail<br />
– Pedestrian unfriendly<br />
–
TOD “Typology”<br />
<strong>City</strong> Center Town Center<br />
Neighborhood Station<br />
Employment Center Station
TOD “Typology”<br />
Local Park-n-Ride Regional Park-n-Ride<br />
Airport / Seaport Special Event Venue
Different Transit “Technologies”<br />
Intercity Passenger Rail (Amtrak) Trolley or Streetcar<br />
Local/Regional Bus<br />
High Speed Rail<br />
Commuter Rail (SunRail; Tri-Rail)<br />
Bus Rapid Transit Light Rail
TOD<br />
Winter Park, <strong>Florida</strong>
TAD<br />
Pompano Beach, <strong>Florida</strong>
“Flagler g Line” Project j<br />
Amtrak/FEC Passenger Service<br />
(Jacksonville - West Palm Beach - Miami)
Henry Flagler<br />
FEC/Henry Flagler<br />
“Speedway to Sunshine”
CSX et.al.<br />
FEC<br />
Key<br />
West<br />
Jacksonville<br />
86 stations<br />
from o Miami a<br />
to Key West<br />
Palm<br />
Beach<br />
Miami<br />
<strong>Florida</strong> Passenger Train Service ~ Historically
Jacksonville (c1920s)<br />
Vero Beach (c1900s)<br />
A Rich History along the Corridor<br />
St. Augustine (c1890) Cocoa (c1900)<br />
Melbourne (1925) Daytona Beach (c1890s)<br />
<strong>Titusville</strong> (c1925)<br />
Stuart (1903)<br />
Fort Pierce (c1900)
CSX et.al.<br />
FEC<br />
<strong>Florida</strong> Passenger Train Service ~ Today
Welcome to <strong>Florida</strong>!<br />
Look We have<br />
Look… We have<br />
arrived!
CSX et.al.<br />
FEC<br />
<strong>Florida</strong> Passenger Train Service ~ FEC Opportunity
LEGEND<br />
Existing Amtrak Service (on CSX)<br />
New Amtrak Service on FEC<br />
“FLAGLER LINE”<br />
PROJECT<br />
PLANNED NEW STATIONS (East Coast)<br />
• St Augustine<br />
• Daytona Beach<br />
• <strong>Titusville</strong><br />
• C Cocoa (P (Port t CCanaveral) l)<br />
• Melbourne<br />
• Vero Beach<br />
• Fort Pierce<br />
• Stuart<br />
EXISTING STATIONS (East Coast)<br />
Jacksonville …. West Palm Beach,<br />
Delray Beach, Deerfield Beach,<br />
Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood, Miami<br />
• Miami International Airport/MIC p<br />
Other Existing Stations include Orlando, Tampa,<br />
Winter Park, Sanford, Lakeland, and more.
<strong>Titusville</strong><br />
Recommended<br />
Station Location
<strong>Titusville</strong> Station<br />
Pine Street<br />
(East <strong>of</strong> FEC)<br />
NORTH<br />
MAIN STREET<br />
JULIA STREET<br />
PINE STREET<br />
S HOPPKINS<br />
AVE / US11<br />
S WASSHINGTON<br />
AVE / US1
<strong>Titusville</strong> Station<br />
Pine Street<br />
(East <strong>of</strong> FEC)<br />
NORTH<br />
MAIN STREET<br />
JULIA STREET<br />
S HOPPKINS<br />
AVE / US11<br />
S WASSHINGTON<br />
AVE / US1<br />
1000’ 1000 platform<br />
with canopy<br />
Station parking<br />
(15+ spaces)<br />
PINE STREET Historic station<br />
building at western<br />
end d <strong>of</strong> f Pi Pine St Street t
<strong>Titusville</strong> Station<br />
Pine Street<br />
(East <strong>of</strong> FEC)<br />
NORTH<br />
MAIN STREET<br />
JULIA STREET<br />
PINE STREET<br />
S HOPPKINS<br />
AVE / US11<br />
S WASSHINGTON<br />
AVE / US1
<strong>Titusville</strong> Station<br />
Pine Street<br />
(East <strong>of</strong> FEC)<br />
NORTH<br />
MAIN STREET<br />
JULIA STREET<br />
PINE STREET<br />
S HOPPKINS<br />
AVE / US11<br />
S WASSHINGTON<br />
AVE / US1
<strong>Titusville</strong> Station<br />
Photo provided by Historical Society <strong>of</strong> North Brevard
<strong>Titusville</strong> Station
<strong>Titusville</strong> Station
Station Planning along the Corridor<br />
FORT PIERCE VERO BEACH<br />
MELBOURNE STUART
Station Planning along the Corridor<br />
TITUSVILLE<br />
DAYTONA BEACH<br />
ST AUGUSTINE<br />
COCOA
It’s Been 44 Years … Where’s My Train?!?<br />
www.tcrpc.org
KIM DELANEY DELANEY, STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR<br />
TREASURE COAST REGIONAL PLANNING COUNCIL<br />
(772) 221-4060<br />
KDELANEY@TCRPC.ORG
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