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Embracing Transit-Oriented Development: Middleborough's Future Opportunities (2008)

In 2008, a workshop in Middleborough discussed the potential for Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) fueled by national demographic trends favoring walkable urban spaces and transit accessibility. Successful TOD creates vibrant communities around transit stations, combining residential and business uses to improve quality of life. Middleborough, with its history of mixed-use development, has the opportunity to benefit from emerging trends in urban planning. Key discussions included potential sites for development and strategies to maximize the advantages of new transit services.

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Embracing Transit-Oriented Development: Middleborough's Future Opportunities (2008)

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  1. Middleborough Workshop – February 18, 2008

  2. Location, Location….Connection • National demographic trends and lifestyle preferences over the next 20 years will strongly favor development and investment in the following locations: • Walkable, diverse urban neighborhoods • Transit served locations • Middleborough could benefit from these trends

  3. Transit Oriented Development: Lessons Learned from Successful Development Nationally and Regionally • Successful Transit Oriented Development creates a sense of place/amenity around the station area—making it a good place to live or work, not just to get on a train. Key characteristics: • Compact and dense • Mix of uses with activity in all time periods • Walkable streets • Transit is an amenity for both residential and business uses; it can be an especially powerful factor in attracting residential development • Where commuter parking is provided at stations, it must be integrated with development and should be placed out of sight • Markets evolve over time and so can stations

  4. Massachusetts Successes • Communities such as Canton, Gloucester, Haverhill, Lowell and Lawrence have successfully advanced Transit Oriented Development associated with commuter rail

  5. Massachusetts Successes • Other communities such as Attleboro are moving forward on ambitious TOD plans

  6. Middleborough has a legacy of compact, walkable, mixed-use development

  7. What might transit oriented development look like?

  8. What might it look like? retail center/mixed use

  9. What might it look like? retail center/mixed use

  10. Station sites considered • SW Route 44 (Striar property) • SE Route 44 (Everett Street) • NE Route 44 (Everett Street) • Plymouth Street • MBTA Layover • Middleborough Center

  11. Middleborough Center Station

  12. MiddleboroughStation Transit oriented development is typically located within a quarter mile of a station but many commuters will walk up to one mile

  13. Land Uses

  14. MiddleboroughStation • within 0.25 miles • 368 households • 641 jobs • within 0.5 miles • 1,061 households • 1,606 jobs • within 1 mile • 2,523 households • 3,558 jobs

  15. Site Context

  16. Key Site Issues • Station site presents some challenging technical issues • Track geometry • Providing access to platforms across CSX line • Each of the rail options that include a Middleborough station would also involve closure of Lakeville Station • Shuttle service is assumed between existing Lakeville parking area and new Middleborough Center Station

  17. Key questions • How can the Town maximize its benefits from new transit service? • What kind of transit oriented development is the right fit for Middleborough?

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