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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March 14, 2013
Washington now that the sequester is officially here what does it mean for your community? Will you see the value of your home decrease in a similar way to...
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March 12, 2013
In 2012, the Transportation Planning Board funded three planning studies to look at ways to make commercial and residential areas near transit stations in the...
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March 7, 2013
In 2012 the Transportation Planning Board funded a study to evaluate the risk that development pressure and rising property values might permanently “price...
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February 27, 2013
2012 was busy for the Region Forward Coalition with several key projects being completed such as the first Region Forward Progress Report and an updated ...
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February 14, 2013
New forecasts released yesterday show metropolitan Washington’s population growing by more than 30% over the next few decades reaching nearly seven million...