Principal, 2000-Present;
Senior Associate, 1998-2000
Jeffrey has managed projects in the following key areas since 1998:
- Transit Oriented Development and station area plans for four dozen rail station areas in the San Francisco Bay Area, Dallas, Vancouver, BC, Washington, DC and Seattle regions. Tumlin is also managing a $5 million as-needed planning contract for BART that covers everything from station area planning to comprehensive station access, TOD and engineering standards. He co-authored BART's Station Access Guidelines and Transit Oriented Development Guidelines. Key TOD projects include:
- Pleasant Hill BART Station Area Plan and Design Development. Led the transportation planning effort in an intensive charrette process that produced a Form Based Code. See www.co.contra-costa.ca.us/depart/cd/charrette. Project broke ground in 2006.
- San Francisco "Better Neighborhoods." These five community-based specific plans allow for 10,000 new units of housing around San Francisco's key rail stations. See www.betterneighborhoods.org.
- BART Station area plans for Castro Valley, South Hayward, Glen Park and Balboa Park stations. See www.bart.gov/about/planning/home.asp.
- Seattle Westlake Hub Study. In the core of Seattle's downtown retail district, six major transit lines will converge in a broad six-block area. This study recommends tools to optimize transfers among these various lines.
- WMATA Metro Shady Grove, Rhode Island Avenue, and Takoma Park station area studies.
- San Mateo Transit Corridor Plan. This plan proposes up to 4,000 new housing units and 4.5 million square feet of commercial over 600 acres around two train stations in this suburban California city. NN helped dramatically reduce traffic impacts by such measures as parking maximums and robust TDM requirements. See www.cityofsanmateo.org/dept/planning/ corridor.html
- Transportation Master Plans for downtowns and cities, including Seattle, WA, Trenton, NJ and Palo Alto, CA. In Seattle, Tumlin restructured the city's transportation performance measures to focus on Quality of Service indicators for all modes. Palo Alto's new performance indicators focus on quality of life, while Trenton's focus on economic development.
- Transportation Management Plans for major development projects. Building on his work at Stanford, Tumlin developed strategies to accommodate five million square feet of growth at NASA's Moffett Field while reducing traffic by 40%, largely through innovative program elements such as parking cash-out and on-site housing. Other major development projects include the San Mateo Bay Meadows area, the Genentech main campus, and Seattle's South Lake Union.
- Community outreach and consensus building projects throughout the US. Each of Tumlin's projects involved major community outreach and consensus-building in some of the most challenging environments, such as Berkeley, San Francisco, Boulder, Santa Barbara, Palo Alto and Arlington, VA. He specializes in helping community members understand the real trade-offs involved in transportation and urban development decisions, allowing them to decide for themselves how local values should be reflected in plans.
- Parking management strategies. For San Francisco, Arlington VA, Seattle, WA, Walnut Creek, CA, and a variety of major employers and commercial districts, Tumlin has helped to identify the most cost effective mix of investments in new parking, improved parking management and transportation alternatives to meet local access and quality of life goals. In San Francisco, the city replaced parking minimums with maximums, following Tumlin's innovative analysis correlating parking with affordable housing production, gentrification and traffic generation (see www.betterneighborhoods.org).
Lectures and Papers
Traffic Calming Workshops. San Francisco Planning & Urban Research, and with FHWA in Mono County. 1999.
"SoMa Traffic and Transport Planning." Downtown Magazine. 1999.
"The Yosemite Area Regional Transportation Strategy." ITE Journal, CTAA Transit in the Parks Conference, and Business Journal TV show. 1999 and 2000.
