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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July 2, 2011
With endless partisan gridlock in Washington creating uncertainty on seemingly every front (the debt limit talks being the most recent example) the role of...
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June 29, 2011
In Monday’s post we linked to a fascinating piece (with an unfortunately biased headline) in The New York Times that outlined some of the differences in...
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June 21, 2011
Livability is a major buzz word in planning circles right now – for good reason. It’s a wide-ranging concept encompassing several factors that make places well...
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June 15, 2011
At the Region Forward Coalition kickoff event on June 10 Barbara McCann Executive Director of the National Complete Streets Coalition spoke about her...
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June 14, 2011
Creating the Region Forward vision was hard work. Using Region Forward to measure progress prioritize needs and jumpstart projects will be an even more...