The Urban Land Institute (ULI) is an organization that provides leadership on responsible land use and sustainable community development. Their priorities include infrastructure, sustainable communities, housing, capital markets, and placemaking. They bring leaders together to foster collaboration on land use issues and share knowledge through a global network. ULI provides best practices, lessons learned, and objective expertise to act as an educational resource on land use topics. They are working on projects related to transit-oriented development, sustainable communities strategies, and addressing the impacts of the struggling housing and commercial real estate markets.

1. Jeff Mayer
Chair, Urban Land Institute
Orange County / Inland Empire

3. • Mission: to provide leadership in the
responsible use of land and in creating
and sustaining thriving communities
worldwide.

5. • “All ULI cares about is density” – No
• ULI @ quality development in a financially
viable, responsible & sustainable manner.

6. ULI
• bringing leaders together
• fostering collaboration
• exploring land use and development issues
• advancing policies and practices
sharing knowledge
• creating a global network with local
impact

7. • Best Practices
• Lessons Learned
• Objectivity
• Not lobbying org. – Educational, Advocacy
• “go to” organization for unbiased, up-to-the-
minute land use expertise.

8. Priorities
• Infrastructure
• Sustainable Communities
• Housing
• Capital Markets
• Placemaking / Public Realm
• Development at the Edge
• Places of Commerce

9. Infrastructure
Statewide TOD
Marketplace via
ULI Community
Action Grant - ULI
branded program
studying
development
along hi speed rail
corridor- looking
for cities to
participate. TAP’s
in each region

10. • TOD Marketplace –
Riverside, Corona,
Ontario, Placentia.
Recommendations
from these four TAPs
will be presented at
the ULI Orange
County/Inland Empire
TOD Marketplace
on January 19, 2010, at the
Ontario Convention Center,
from 7:30- 11:30 am.

11. OC/IE Sustainable Communities
Council
• Our Mission: proactively
identify and promote best
practices in sustainable
development in OC – IE
through proactive
education, awareness,
collaboration, outreach and
community/stakeholder
involvement.

12. Sustainable Communities
• No. & So. CA focus groups conducted 2007
“California 2020: A Path to Implementation” -
• 2008- paper and blog: “Responsible Land Use:
A Path to a Sustainable California by 2020”
published by California 2020 www.ca2020.org

13. • 2007-2009 ULI SF members participated in
ClimatePlan coalition/strategic plan
www.climateplanca.org
• August 2008 ULI - 5 CA District Councils sent
comments on Draft Climate Change Scoping
Plan letter to Mary Nichols @ CA Air
Resources Board

14. • ULI members, who chair Sustainabllity
Committees for District Councils in CA met last
night in SF.
• How ULI can share expertise with mayors to
help them plan for meeting AB32 targets &
implementing SB375.
SCAG’s SB375 Working Group meetings –>
sustainable communities strategy for MPO
to implement SB375.

15. Housing
• Attacking methods to deliver housing at
affordable price close to where people work

16. Urban Marketplace
June 8, 2010
Co-hosts:
• OC League of Cities
• Redevelopment Agencies
• COG’s
• City Managers Assn.
• Planning Directors Assn.
Focus: “Next Generation of Urban
Development” How are we going to do it right?
What’s it going to look like? Who are the players?
Are the cities prepared?

34. Capital Markets
• Residential Mortgage delinquencies have
a long way to go
• Commercial mortgage debt is beginning
to crush the industry. $1.4T of mortgage
dbt maturing with no place to go
Banks are just beginning to fail
Retailers and commercial feel full impact in
2010: 20% vacancy rates

35. Capital Markets
• State taking redev. $- hurts all markets;
• Cost increases in retirement funds
• Next summer, assessor: bottom year for
assessed value -> property taxes down ->
(city to feel full impact in 2010, 2011)