Next Generation Business Parks

Turning sprawling office parks into compact transit villages may be solve both congestion and energy issues at once.

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May 31, 2006, 10:00 AM PDT

The solution includes office park mixed-use housing in-fill creating the commonsense notion of "efficient human settlement patterns:" "work, home, and activities grouped within easy reach of each other." U.S. EPA was sufficiently enthused with the idea to fund a study entitled "Transforming Office Parks into Transit Villages." Small transit villages are terrific, but do not have a discernable impact when facing 50% Bay Area population growth. In contrast, "office park scale" transit villages encompass tens of thousands of people. "Thereâ€™s a growing consensus to fix these places by turning them into efficient and sustainable suburban edge cities."

Thanks to Jeral Poskey

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Saturday, May 27, 2006 in The San Francisco Chronicle

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