Infill and Transit Oriented Development

Reinvestment creates livable, sustainable communities.

Update: The Infill and Transit Oriented Development: Exploring regional development ON TO 2050 Snapshot is now available, and your feedback is welcome. Please send your thoughts, ideas, or questions to ONTO2050@cmap.illinois.gov.

Infill development, or growth that occurs in built-up areas with existing infrastructure, is a key strategy for reinvestment. This type of renewed investment helps revitalize economically disadvantaged communities, support new growth without building costly additional infrastructure, and preserve natural resources. Infill also makes communities more livable and sustainable by promoting walkability, housing and transportation choices, as well as access to schools, jobs, services, and basic amenities.

GO TO 2040 recognized the strong benefits of leveraging the region's existing assets and recommended that the region direct investment toward strengthening existing communities and find opportunities to encourage new development and redevelopment in livable communities that are denser and designed for mixed uses.

How ON TO 2050 can help promote further reinvestment and infill.

The region has many types of places that may be a priority for reinvestment and infill — transit station areas, suburban downtowns, main streets, employment centers, existing neighborhoods, disinvested areas, and many types of community activity centers. ON TO 2050 plan development will include a snapshot report that highlights infill and transit oriented development (TOD) trends in the region and a strategy paper that will explore types of areas, possibly to prioritize for investment.

ON TO 2050 will continue to emphasize the need to strengthen existing communities. And with input from public and private partners and other stakeholders, the plan's development will explore strategies for overcoming barriers to infill and reinvestment and for promoting livable communities.

This is your plan.

Continual input by stakeholder organizations and individuals was vital to the development and implementation of GO TO 2040. From now through the next plan's adoption in October 2018 and beyond, CMAP will be engaging a broad cross-section of partners from across the region.

Take a moment to fill out the questions below, and for more information on CMAP's public engagement efforts, please visit www.cmap.illinois.gov/get-involved.

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