Costal Post May 31, 1989
NBTMA Supports The Hamilton Project
North Bay Transportation Management Association (NBTMA) believes that the
public and private sectors working together can create traffic solutions that
will improve the community’s quality of life.
NBTMA asks you to support the Hamilton Project for the following reasons:
Hamilton traffic reduction strategies; first right to rent for those who
work at Hamilton; Redevelopment Agency funds of$105 million guarantee low and
moderate income households funds to live and work at Hamilton; and optimal use
of the Northwest Pacific Right-of-Way by designing to build a live/work
community within a 1,2 mile walk of the transit corridor.
The correct County estimates
that the project would add to miles of added queues are 3 to 6.5 miles in the
morning and 2.3 to 4.3 in the evening. This is without factoring in the traffic mitigations listed above.
When phased traffic mitigation requirements are coupled with developers
who listen, traffic reduction can be the result.
Local Jobs Data Bank would place present Novato out-commuters into jobs
at Hamilton. Transit providers could shuttle workers from Sonoma to their
Hamilton jobs, such as the Santa Rosa Airporter.
Federal Entrepreneurial Capital Grunt funds are available to put a jitney
on the road, but to receive them the recipient must show a 3 year business plan
which shows that non-public money will make the jitney self-supportive.
Hamilton’s developers would consider paying the fares of their workers who
commute from Novato to work at Hamilton.
Hamilton is a model that can encourage the development of other
mixed-used communities along Marin and Sonoma’s railroad right-of-way. To
build those workable communities, a model must be created. Hamilton is the
model.