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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November 30, 2010
A couple of interesting articles have popped up recently both centered on the idea that the size of a city is important to its success and the nature of its...
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November 29, 2010
Building a more inclusive region is one of the primary goals of RF. We’ve blogged on multiple occasions about the need to reduce disparities in the region...
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November 24, 2010
Scrambling to put together some last minute Thanksgiving travel plans? Planning ahead for the winter holidays? Consider taking the train. Matt Yglesias from ...
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November 23, 2010
An interesting piece today over at Next American City discusses how the proliferation of “hyperlocal” blogs and web sites is impacting urban planning....
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November 22, 2010
Leaders in the metropolitan Washington region have embarked on an unprecedented regional effort to develop the most competitive workforce in the country.