Shaping stronger communities and a better region requires collaboration across jurisdictions and disciplines. The Department of Community Planning and Services leads inter-departmental coordination within COG related to the Region Forward, the region's comprehensive vision plan, and provides support for the Region Forward Coalition, a multi-sector group focused on advancing the plan’s goals and targets.
While there is no single land use plan for the region, local jurisdictions have widely adopted a similar approach to development, increasingly focused in mixed-use Activity Centers that can best accommodate future growth. In cooperation with its Planning Directors Technical Advisory Committee, COG supports local land use planning and Activity Centers by analyzing growth, providing technical assistance, and sharing best practices for placemaking and development. And since transportation and land use are closely linked, COG fosters better planning through efforts such as the Transportation and Land Use Coordination Program. COG has also partnered with ULI-Washington to fund three Technical Assistance Panels (TAPs) per year in Activity Centers.
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May 14, 2013
A new report shows that although homelessness is continuing to decline in the region it remains a major problem and two key obstacles – sequestration and a...
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May 14, 2013
A long-term vision for the future of Prince George's County, spelled out by county planners in 2002, calls for nodes of concentrated residential and commercial...
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May 3, 2013
Contrary to John Slidell’s April 12 Guest Comment claiming that “there is almost no one in this region who wakes up every day thinking about what the region...
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May 3, 2013
Board Chairwoman's op-ed in Washington Business Journal highlights the Council of Governments' ability to bring area leaders together and address key...
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April 30, 2013
Imagine a future in which travel options like transit, bicycling, and walking would be safer and more practical for more people in the region, and drivers would...