In an earlier
post, I stress the need for integrated planning to make mass transit
successfully and hence a higher quality sustainable living environment and
lifestyle. See the excerpt from 25.0 Jakarta Mass Transit, Development Planning and Economics below or
click on the hyperlink in the title to see the whole post.
Density
of land along with the convenience of Mass Transit always makes
land more valuable. Governments have the ability to dictate
development zoning and density and directly alter the land value and this is
exactly what governments like Jakarta should do to finance and make Mass
Transit viable and effective once it is built.
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| Singapore Queenstown MRT Station with Density and new high rise apartments being added. |
So how does one execute the rezoning to land around transit stations in order to increase density? This question can only be answered by the legal experts of the individual country in which is being discussed, but below are a few possible examples. Not being a legal expert by any means, these are more intuitive common sense recommendations. The policy and strategy in the 4th approach below is really the strategy that I am tabling in this blog post.
