Pilot Program for Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Planning
Posted by DOT - Federal Transit Administration
Opportunity snapshot. This Grants.gov announcement — Pilot Program for Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Planning — is cataloged under number FTA-2016-005-TPE and tied to CFDA assistance listing 20.500, posted by DOT - Federal Transit Administration. Grants.gov currently shows the opportunity as closed, first posted on April 15, 2016. The funding category is Discretionary, delivered as a grant.
Award economics. The award range on file is $250,000 -- $2,000,000. The agency has projected $20.5 million in total estimated funding for this announcement. It expects to issue 25 awards. If the agency funds the expected 25 awards from the $20.5 million estimated pool, the average award works out to roughly $820,000. Cost sharing or matching funds are required, meaning applicants must contribute a portion of the project budget from non-federal sources — factor this into your financial plan before drafting the proposal. Federal award ranges are often upper bounds; actual allocations reflect program appropriations, the strength of the applicant pool, and the evaluation committee's scoring.
Deadline and action path. This opportunity closed on June 13, 2016. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number, so monitoring the parent program page is the most reliable way to catch re-announcements. Every Grants.gov submission requires an active SAM.gov registration and a Unique Entity ID. Review the Eligibility section below carefully — federal eligibility categories (nonprofit, state or local government, tribal, individual, educational institution, small business) have distinct registration and reporting requirements. Pre-application outreach to the listed agency contact is permitted and often welcomed — it helps clarify scope and scoring priorities.
Award Range
$250,000 -- $2,000,000
Close Date
June 13, 2016
Posted
April 15, 2016
Est. Total Funding
$20,490,000
Expected Awards
25
Instrument
Grant
Cost Sharing
Required
Description
The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announces the availability of $20.49 million in Pilot Program for TOD Planning funding to support comprehensive planning associated with new fixed guideway and core capacity improvement projects that are seeking or have recently received funding through FTA’s Fixed Guideway Capital Investment Grants (CIG) Program. Additional appropriations may result in additional funding for proposals submitted under this notice. FTA may award amounts ranging from $250,000 to $2,000,000. Proposals must be submitted electronically through the Grants.gov website by midnight Eastern Time on June 13, 2016.The Pilot Program for TOD Planning helps support FTA’s mission of improving public transportation for America’s communities by providing funding to local communities to integrate land use and transportation planning with a New Starts, Core Capacity or fixed-guideway Small Starts project that is seeking or has recently received funding through the CIG Program. MAP-21 established, and the FAST Act continues to require, that any comprehensive planning funded through the pilot program must examine ways to improve economic development and ridership, foster multimodal connectivity and accessibility, improve transit access for pedestrian and bicycle traffic, engage the private sector, identify infrastructure needs, and enable mixed-use development near transit stations. The statute also requires that the planning work be associated with a new fixed guideway or core capacity transit project as defined under the CIG Program.Through this program, FTA intends to fund planning work that would likely not occur without Federal support. FTA is seeking comprehensive planning projects covering an entire transit capital project corridor, rather than proposals that involve planning for individual station areas or only a small section of the corridor. FTA is prioritizing applications in corridors with significant challenges related to TOD planning, low levels of existing development, lack of connectivity to essential services, or where the cost of the planning work to overcome the challenges exceeds what might be readily available locally. FTA is also prioritizing projects that include strategies to address the gentrification and displacement that can sometimes occur when transit capital projects are implemented. To ensure that planning work reflects the needs and aspirations of the local community and results in concrete, specific deliverables and outcomes, FTA is requiring that transit project sponsors partner with entities with land use planning authority in the transit project corridor.
Eligibility
25
Official Listing on Grants.gov
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Parent Grant Program
Federal Transit Capital Investment Grants
U.S. Department of Transportation
Agency Contact
Benjamin Owen <br/>Office of Planning and Environment <br/>202-366-5602
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