Oregon’s Transportation and Growth Management Program supports community efforts to expand transportation choices.
Donor Name: Oregon Department of Transportation
State: Oregon
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/31/2025
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
TGM Planning Grants help local jurisdictions plan for streets and land to lead to more livable, sustainable, and economically vital communities. This planning increases opportunities for transit, walking and bicycling.
TGM provides grants to help communities:
- Provide transportation choices
- Create livable neighborhoods
- Support economic vitality and growth
- Save public and private costs
- Promote environmental stewardship.
Types of Grant
TGM awards two types of grants:
- Category 1: Transportation System Planning: To help local governments develop and update transportation system plans (TSPs) and implementing measures that implement the Transportation Planning Rule implement the Oregon Transportation Plan and other statewide modal and topic plans; increase opportunities for walking, biking, and transit; or reduce reliance on the state highway for local travel needs
- Category 2: Integrated Land Use and Transportation Planning: To help local governments develop integrated land use and transportation plans and implementing measures that encourage livable, affordable, and accessible communities for all ages and incomes; promote compact, mixed-use, walkable development to increase walking, biking, and transit; or support physical, social, and economic needs.
Funding Information
The TGM Program typically awards between $2 and $2.5 million statewide per year.
Eligible Uses
- Transportation System Planning: Projects in this category will result in a transportation decision. Projects will plan for transportation facilities inside Urban Growth Boundaries (UGBs), in urban unincorporated communities, and along rural highway corridors. Projects proposed for areas being considered in a UGB amendment process may be eligible, but must demonstrate they are timely and reasonably achievable. Category 1 projects typically include preparation and adoption of:
- TSPs and TSP updates, in whole or part, to address transportation needs for all users, comply with new state or federal regulations, maintain consistency with a regional transportation plan, plan for areas newly brought into the UGB, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, or make the transportation system more resilient to the impacts of natural hazards
- TSP implementation, such as streetscape plans, cost estimate refinement, capital improvement and other funding plans, and land use regulations required by the Transportation Planning Rules
- TSP refinement, such as corridor plans, multimodal safety plans, interchange area management plans, or other planning to implement Oregon statewide modal and topic plans
- Transit Development Plans that provide long term vision and policy for existing and future transit service
- Other innovative transportation-related planning projects that are consistent with TGM objectives
- Integrated Land Use and Transportation Planning: Projects in this category will result in a land use decision. Projects will combine land use planning with supportive transportation facility planning inside UGBs, urban unincorporated communities, and urban reserve areas. Category 2 projects typically include preparation and adoption of:
- Specific area plans for land uses in a downtown, main street, commercial area, employment area, neighborhood, corridor, or interchange area
- Land use and transportation concept plans for areas brought into a UGB
- Transportation-efficient land use plans for an entire urban area, such as location efficiency of housing and employment or reducing greenhouse gas emissions from transportation
- Implementing measures, such as code amendments, infill and redevelopment strategies, and intergovernmental agreements
- Other innovative land use and transportation-related planning projects that are consistent with TGM objectives.
Eligible Projects
- TGM grants are for planning work leading to local transportation and land use policy decisions that support the TGM Objectives.
- Projects should result in the development of an adoption-ready plan, land use regulations, amendments to an existing plan, or land use regulations.
- Projects that primarily do research or outreach, study an issue, compile data, or inventory information are not eligible for grant funding.
- Applicants may choose from one of two grant categories: Transportation System Planning or Integrated Land Use and Transportation Planning.
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible applicants include:
- cities
- counties
- tribal governments
- councils of government on
- behalf of a city or county
- special districts, such as transportation districts, metropolitan planning organizations, ports, mass transit districts, parks and recreation districts, and metropolitan service districts.
For more information, visit ODOT.
