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 10, 2010
Tamara Lucas Copeland President of the Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers (WRAG) discusses local philanthropy’s support of Region Forward and...
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November 5, 2010
The height limit on D.C. buildings is a topic that arises every once in awhile generates some discussion and then subsides into the background. A New...
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October 28, 2010
Livability is a broad concept – for a reason. Although Livability has specific targets in RF it can be influenced by a wide variety of factors – housing...
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October 27, 2010
Last night Fairfax County Chairman Sharon Bulova was honored with a Planning Award for her leadership in chairing the Greater Washington 2050 Coalition that...
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October 26, 2010
As the foreclosure/mortgage debacle continues to unravel in the U.S. some are arguing that the engine for a potential recovery can be found in…housing? As...