Transit Oriented Communities

Transit Oriented Communities (TOC) are a major focus of Miami-Dade County's regional growth management and transportation strategy. TOCs focus new residential, commercial, office and institutional investments in areas served by premium transit. This site provides helpful information on TOC development in the county across four key topics:

Economic Development
Urban Form
Regional Travel
Local Access

It provides dashboard maps and data resources to monitor development, transportation infrastructure, and travel patterns over time.

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Key Topics

Economic Development

The SMART Plan directs new growth and development to strategic rapid transit corridors, leveraging the community’s investments in transit and growing the county’s economic base. As Miami-Dade County continues to grow, SMART Plan corridors and station areas are expected to absorb substantial portions of new development, offer high-value investment opportunities, and bolster tax revenues to sustain public services. This section of the TOCs Tool monitors economic development in SMART Plan corridors and station areas.

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Urban Form

TOC cultivates dense, mixed-use development in station areas with well-connected local streets. The resulting urban form expands access to transportation choices and allows residents, workers and visitors to meet daily travel needs through a variety of modes. Moreover, it focuses new development in areas with existing infrastructure, limiting growth into the county’s rural and undeveloped spaces.

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Regional Travel

TOC influences regional travel patterns by bringing residents, jobs, and daily activities in close proximity to one another and to rapid transit. This enhances access to jobs and daily destinations by all travel modes, often leading to increased travel by transit, walking, and bicycling. Expanded multimodal choices and compact development patterns are also correlated with fewer and shorter vehicle trips, helping to preserve capacity on the existing highway system.

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Local Access

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SMART Plan Corridors & Stations

About Transit Oriented Communities

Transit Oriented Communities (TOC) are neighborhoods and business districts designed around rapid transit stations. TOC integrates economic development and urban design principles with regional mobility via rapid transit. TOC is characterized by medium-to-high density, mixed-use development and a well-connected network of streets providing local connectivity for pedestrians and bicyclists. These elements combine to create thriving communities supporting non-motorized travel, providing connected streets enhancing automobile travel and stimulating development that is easily connected via transit.

A growing number of regions around the country are implementing TOC approaches because they support both concentrated growth and development in compact areas and enhanced transit and non-motorized connections. This results in benefits like:

Increased access to jobs and essential services like health care, fresh food and schools
Increased opportunities for shorter trips which may reduce vehicle miles traveled, potentially mitigating congestion
Maximized impacts of public investments in rapid transit
Improved conditions for recreational and non-work walking and biking
Increased property values and reinvestment in the community

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