Land use planning significantly impacts the character of a community. It guides physical growth to meet the community’s economic and social needs while also protecting natural and historical resources. It influences where we live, work, recreate and conduct business, and how we commute to and from these places.
The Regional Commission offers services to create and update different types of plans such as comprehensive plans, downtown plans, and strategic plans. Services include high quality graphics and illustrations in these plans which makes it easier to read and understand, analysis of many types of community data, and production of meaningful charts and infographics to make sense of the current trends in the community. The Regional Commission assists its partners with the rewriting of zoning ordinances and subdivision ordinances which can be enhanced with intuitive diagrams to illustrate zoning and subdivision requirements, development standards, and other definitions and regulations. The Regional Commission assists with local planning such as community engagement (which includes an online platform), hosting workshops, collection and management of data, and grant writing.