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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June 9, 2011
On June 8 two gatherings were held that reinforced why Region Forward holds great promise to be a catalyst for renewed regional focus and action.
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June 2, 2011
Admittedly it doesn’t flow off the tongue quite like s mart growth but the Triple Bottom Line is a similarly comprehensive concept. The Triple Bottom Line...
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May 31, 2011
City rankings are wildly abundant and as we’ve written before many of them have questionable criteria at best. Although there’s no shortage of “most...
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May 24, 2011
Obesity. Air pollution. Traffic congestion. Health disparities. All of these problems can be reduced by one thing: better land-use planning. We’re not simply...
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May 16, 2011
The Yardstick has been chock full of great information this spring and since it’s been awhile since our last round-up of some of our favorite posts we put...