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MOVE Alliance Village at Zion Panel Members

Elyse W. Lowe Move San Diego Executive Director Kathy Breedlove Move Alliance Program Chair Leah Ostenberg Stender Walk San Diego Asha Bleier Community Planner Diego Velasco Council of Design Professionals Howard Blackson Council of Design Professionals Tony Pauker City Ventures Sherm Harmer Urban Housing Partners Samantha Ollinger Bike San Diego Kevin Wood SD County Bicycle Coalition

ALLIED GARDENS VILLAGE AT ZION HONORED WITH MOVE ALLIANCE ENDORSEMENT

Proposed senior living development will be transit friendly and will promote active lifestyles
San Diego (February 21, 2013) Move San Diego announces the latest of its MOVE Alliance endorsed projects, the senior Village at Zion, a multifamily residential project located in the center of Allied Gardens on Zion Avenue and Glenroy Street. Designed to support projects that create Mobility Options Viable for Everyone, the MOVE Alliance brings together a team of local experts from the private and non-profit sectors to review and endorse early stage development projects in the San Diego region for their commitment to transitoriented development and smart growth principles. The MOVE Alliance is pleased to honor the proposed senior living facility in recognition of the following planned features: The development will be built on a vacant lot and is well connected to the surrounding neighborhood; The development will offer higher density, multi-story units, but keep with the two story community character; An MTS bus route currently operates near the property and will provide good transit access for seniors, currently five days per week; The projects well-situated accessibility to parks, retail and a public library will encourage walking and biking; The development brings an affordable senior housing option that doesnt currently exist in the Allied Gardens community. (more)

In addition, the project features a robust Transportation Demand Management program (TDM) to benefit the projects tenants and offset traffic impacts. The TDM program outlines plans to provide long term transit passes for the residents of Village at Zion and vanpool service for the weekends. Residents will have access to transportation information at both the management office and in the community room. The development will also offer a priority for carpool parking and include bicycle education in its community activities. There are pedestrian improvements planned as a part of the project in the surrounding neighborhood that will make it safer for all Allied Gardens residents to walk across Waring Road, Zion and Glenroy. The MOVE Alliance is happy to be able to support the Village at Zion as a great example of smart urban development that capitalizes on the livability of the Allied Gardens community, says Move San Diego Executive Director Elyse Lowe. Building density on an established bus transit corridor will help the system add riders, and implements long term community and regional sustainability. Having been raised in the neighborhood, I can attest that residents of this neighborhood have great community pride. Its likely that many of the residents will be directly from the Allied Gardens neighborhood. Village at Zion is a development project planned on a vacant lot by Fore Property Company. Village at Zion has earned the formal endorsement from the MOVE Alliance and in turn, receives permission to use the Alliances seal of approval.

MOVE Alliance partners include Move San Diego, Walk San Diego, the San Diego County Bicycle Coalition, Bike San Diego, and the Council of Urban Design Professionals, in addition to local experts on transportation planning and engineering, infill development and land use planning. To learn more and to download application details, visit www.movesandiego.org. Move San Diego is the public voice in support of effective and sustainable transportation in the San Diego region. The non-profit organizes and serves a broad collaboration of people and organizations to prioritize, fund, and implement sustainable, healthy, convenient transportation and related land use solutions. Move San Diego raises awareness of the benefits of smart transportation options and how they will result in a more livable and vibrant San Diego.

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