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DELAWARE VALLEY REGIONAL PLANNING COMMISSION

DELAWARE VALLEY REGIONAL PLANNING COMMISSION. Mid-Atlantic Regional Planning Roundtable March 30, 2012. Greater Philadelphia Region. 353 individual municipalities: Populations range from Philadelphia (1.53 million people) to Tavistock Borough (5 people)

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DELAWARE VALLEY REGIONAL PLANNING COMMISSION

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  1. DELAWARE VALLEY REGIONAL PLANNING COMMISSION Mid-Atlantic Regional Planning Roundtable March 30, 2012

  2. Greater Philadelphia Region • 353 individual municipalities: • Populations range from Philadelphia (1.53 million people) to Tavistock Borough (5 people) • Sizes range from Washington Township in Burlington County, NJ (over 66,000 acres) to Millbourne Borough in Delaware County, PA (50 acres) • Bi-state (New Jersey, Pennsylvania) • Nine counties (Philadelphia plus four suburban PA, four suburban NJ)

  3. Greater Philadelphia Region • 2010 population: 5.6 million • 2010 employment: 2.9 million • Growth forecasts: • 2040 population: + 11 percent to 6.3 million (over 630,000 more people) • 2035 employment: + 11 percent to 3.2 million (over 300,000 more employees)

  4. DVRPC’s Role as the Region’s MPO • Plan for orderly growth and development • Continuous, Comprehensive, and Coordinated (3Cs) Planning Process • Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) • Long-range plan: Connections: The Regional Plan for a Sustainable Future • Public Involvement

  5. What We Do • Maintain a regional resource and data center. • Conduct corridor and area studies. • Conduct regional policy analysis. • Act as a regional facilitator. • Prioritize transportation investments.

  6. SUSTAINABILITY: “The ability of a region to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” • World Commission on Environment & Development, Brundtland Commission, 1989.

  7. The Planning Challenge: Bending the Trends Change “Business As Usual” To: • Achieve a more compact development pattern. • Conserve critical natural resources. • Revitalize & reinvest in older communities. • Increase people’s use of transit, walking, and biking and reduce auto dependency. • Achieve meaningful public input in the planning process.

  8. ConnectionsThe Regional Plan for a Sustainable Future

  9. ConnectionsThe Regional Plan for a Sustainable Future CORE PLAN PRINCIPLES • Manage Growth & Protect Resources • Create Livable Communities • Build an Energy-Efficient Economy • Modernize the Transportation System

  10. Build an Energy-Efficient Economy • Goals: • Support and promote the growth of key sectors. • Foster a high-quality productive workforce. • Reduce greenhouse gas emissions. • Tracking Progress economic indicators: • jobs • average annual wage • educational attainment • housing affordability • greenhouse gas emissions • energy use

  11. Greater Philadelphia Economic Development Framework • Satisfies EDA requirements for a regional comprehensive economic development strategy (CEDS). • Approved by the EDA as Greater Philadelphia’s regional CEDS on September 30, 2009. • Product of public/private consortium of planning and economic development organizations and agencies. • Updated annually; major re-evaluation required every 5th year (by 2014).

  12. A Regional CEDS … • Is a prerequisite for applying for funds under EDA public works, economic adjustment, and most planning programs. • Identifies regional challenges and opportunities. • Integrates economic development with land use and transportation planning. • Integrates human and physical capital planning. • Establishes regional goals, objectives, and performance measures. • Leverages EDA funding for regional goals.

  13. Organization of the Framework • Regional profile • Descriptions of economic development organizations, programs, and initiatives • Summaries of key economic development documents • Regional goals, objectives, and performance measures • List of key regional projects

  14. Regional Economic Goals • Reduce greenhouse gas emissions. • Enhance the climate for business growth. • Invest in public infrastructure. • Increase innovation and new business formation. • Enhance the region’s high quality of life. • Expand regional connections to the global economy. • Focus growth in recognized centers. • Create jobs in distressed areas and for populations most in need. • Create jobs that match workforce supply. • Foster a high-quality, productive workforce. • Support and promote key economic sectors

  15. Planning at the Edge “Facilitate collaboration across jurisdictional boundaries”

  16. For additional information … Mary E. Bell Manager, Demographic and Economic Analysis Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission Telephone 215-238-2841 E-mail mbell@dvrpc.org

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