RecognizePrivate Property Rights:
GRTA will recognize and respect private property rights.

Local Government Planning and Implementation:
GRTA will encourage local governments to plan comprehensively in a way that accommodates the needs of the community, offers flexibility, provides choices to its citizens, and plans for the impacts of new development.

Maximize Market Opportunities:
GRTA will encourage local governments to adopt local ordinances that allow the development market to provide choices for citizens in terms of live, work, and play opportunities.

Best Practices:
GRTA will work with state and local governments to develop a set of Best Practices that can be used by local governments as they adopt comprehensive plans, including support for the Atlanta Regional Commission's Regional Development Plan.

Removal of Barriers:
GRTA will identify land use practices that restrict choices for citizens to live, work, and play with fewer and shorter trips; and facilitate regional and local discussions for reducing or eliminating the barriers.

Connect Transportation with Land Use:
GRTA will identify corridors or development opportunities that are well suited to transportation investment based on existing or planned land uses, and find ways to facilitate the investment.

Begin to Measure Progress:
GRTA will create and implement a system of measurements that serve as benchmarks for implementing Best Practices, removing barriers, and maximizing the investment in transportation.

Regional Discussion of Innovative Practices:
GRTA will work with the region to identify practices, regulations, incentives, projects and other ideas that hold promise or potential as mechanisms to connect land use with transportation. Provide resources and a forum to evaluate the effectiveness of these options.

Station Area Planning:
For New Start transit investments that GRTA is developing, GRTA will assist local governments to develop station area plans that enable the local government and the development market to derive the greatest public benefit and highest private value from the New Start transit investment.

Development Review:
GRTA will continue to work with state, regional, local, and private interests in reviewing Developments of Regional Impact in order to maximize the transportation infrastructure investment.