COG's Region Forward Vision, adopted in 2010, focuses on creating a more prosperous, accessible, livable, and sustainable metropolitan Washington. It maps out ambitious goals and targets to guide future decisions and measure progress. In addition to COG, the region’s local governments and several civic and nonprofit organizations endorsed the vision and incorporated it into their own planning efforts. The Region Forward Coalition is leading the effort to advance the comprehensive vision plan and turn its big goals into better communities.
Following action by the COG Board in 2020 to affirm racial equity as a fundamental value, staff have been weaving equity into the vision and COG's work program. In 2022, the board built on Region Forward and sharpened the focus set in the vision by endorsing planning priorities for the next decade related to equity, transit and land use, housing, and climate. Taken together, these priorities form Region United, a planning framework for 2030.
News & Multimedia
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Map
July 11, 2018
Map provides insight about the influence of land use, transportation, and housing policies on where people live in the region.
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News
May 1, 2018
The Region Forward Coalition Chair discusses the ways her committee is working to ensure area residents have access to opportunity regardless of where they...
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News
August 15, 2017
The metropolitan Washington region is growing, but its housing inventory is not keeping up. The Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG) Region...