Opportunity Information: Apply for FTA 2016 005 TPE
The Federal Transit Administration (FTA), within the U.S. Department of Transportation, offered this discretionary grant opportunity to fund corridor-wide transit-oriented development (TOD) planning tied directly to major transit capital investments. Under Funding Opportunity Number FTA 2016 005 TPE (CFDA 20.500), FTA made $20.49 million available, with the possibility of more funding if additional appropriations became available. The program was designed to pay for comprehensive planning work that communities often cannot fund on their own, specifically planning that integrates land use decisions with the design and delivery of a new fixed guideway or core capacity transit project that is pursuing or has recently received support through FTA's Fixed Guideway Capital Investment Grants (CIG) Program. Individual awards were expected to range from $250,000 to $2,000,000, with an award ceiling of $2,000,000 and an estimated 25 awards.
The core purpose of the Pilot Program for TOD Planning is to help communities get more value from major transit investments by aligning zoning, development strategy, station access, and multimodal connections with the planned transit corridor. Congress (through MAP-21, continued under the FAST Act) required that any comprehensive planning funded through this pilot program address specific topics, including improving economic development and ridership, strengthening multimodal connectivity and accessibility, improving pedestrian and bicycle access to transit, engaging the private sector, identifying infrastructure needs, and enabling mixed-use development near stations. In practical terms, FTA was looking for work products that move beyond broad visioning and instead produce concrete, implementable corridor strategies that can shape development patterns and make the transit investment more useful and more heavily used.
FTA emphasized that it wanted proposals covering the entire transit capital project corridor, not planning limited to a single station area or a short segment of the route. In selection, the agency signaled priorities for corridors where TOD planning faces meaningful barriers, such as low existing development, weak connectivity to essential services, significant implementation challenges, or situations where the cost of the needed planning exceeds what local partners could reasonably fund. Another explicit priority was the inclusion of strategies to address gentrification and displacement pressures that can accompany new transit investments, meaning applicants were expected to show how the planning would confront equity risks and help existing residents benefit from improved transit access rather than being pushed out.
Eligibility was tightly tied to the CIG program. The planning work had to be associated with a transit capital project that qualifies as a New Starts, Core Capacity, or fixed-guideway Small Starts project under the CIG statutory framework (49 U.S.C. 5309). In addition, the associated transit project had to meet at least one status condition: it was expected to enter Project Development in the future; it was already in Project Development or Engineering for New Starts/Core Capacity (or in Project Development for Small Starts) by the time of TOD planning application; or it had received a CIG construction grant agreement (FFGA or SSGA) since July 2012, when this TOD pilot was created. Projects that had already received TOD Planning pilot funds in a prior year were not eligible under this particular solicitation.
Applicant rules were also specific. Applicants had to already be FTA grantees as of the NOFO publication date. The proposer needed to be either (1) the sponsor of the eligible transit capital project or (2) an entity with land use planning authority in the corridor (for example, a city, county, or similar jurisdiction that controls zoning and land use decisions). FTA required evidence of a real partnership between the transit sponsor and the land use authority unless a single entity legitimately held both roles. This partnership requirement was central to the program logic: FTA wanted to ensure that planning recommendations could actually be implemented through land use tools, infrastructure programming, and coordinated decision-making, rather than remaining aspirational.
FTA limited submissions to one application per transit capital project corridor. If multiple applications were submitted for the same corridor, FTA treated that as a sign that the necessary partnership and coordination were not in place and stated it would reject all applications for that corridor. This rule effectively forced local stakeholders to align around a single corridor plan and a single, coordinated submission.
Applications were required to be submitted electronically through Grants.gov, with a deadline of midnight Eastern Time on June 13, 2016. The opportunity category was discretionary, the instrument type was a grant, and the funding activity category was transportation. Overall, the solicitation functioned as a targeted planning investment meant to make large federal transit capital projects more successful by ensuring station areas and corridor land use patterns support ridership, access, economic outcomes, and equitable community benefits.Apply for FTA 2016 005 TPE
- The DOT/Federal Transit Administration in the transportation sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Pilot Program for Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Planning" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 20.500.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2016-04-15.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2016-06-13. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $2,000,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 25 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others.
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