Guadalajara TOD Plan
Core idea
Mi Macro Calzada BRT area plans
Why it matters
Transit-focused land use in Mexico
Description
The Guadalajara TOD plans, prepared around 2016 under the metropolitan planning institute IMEPLAN, developed station- and corridor-area strategies for the Mi Macro Calzada bus rapid transit corridor and the expanding urban rail network of Mexico's second metropolis. They combined denser mixed-use development, improved pedestrian conditions and land-use regulation around transit infrastructure, working across municipal boundaries within the Guadalajara metropolitan area. IMEPLAN's role made this one of Mexico's first genuinely metropolitan exercises in transit-oriented development planning.
Significance
The Guadalajara work is significant as an early institutionalisation of transit-oriented development in Mexican planning, linking federal transit investment to metropolitan land-use coordination through IMEPLAN, itself a pioneering metropolitan governance body. It has served as a reference for other Mexican metropolitan areas seeking to move beyond municipally fragmented, car-oriented growth.
What shaped it
Sources
- https://www.informador.mx/Jalisco/Aprueban-oficialmente-el-Plan-de-Ordenamiento-Territorial-2016
- https://iieg.gob.mx/ns/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Plan-de-Ordenamiento-Territorial-2016.pdf