Good land use planning provides a framework from which future land development policy is drawn. Recognizing the fact that planning decisions in one community impacts surrounding communities and the region as a whole, MVRPC promotes good land use planning practices both at the regional and local level.
MVRPC conducts regional land use planning activities and provides technical assistance to various local land use planning efforts so that communities in the Miami Valley Region maintain a regional perspective in their land use policy development.
In addition, MVRPC strives to integrate land use planning with transportation and environmental planning to better achieve consistency between future transportation infrastructure investment and land development, while protecting environmental resources.
July 2007, MVRPC began a 4-year Regional Land Use Planning initiative titled Going Places: An Integrated Land Use Vision for the Miami Valley Region. Working with various regional stakeholders, this new initiative is to follow a 3-phase land use planning process to develop a shared future land use vision, represented by the conceptual 2040 regional growth framework for the Miami Valley Region.
Development in this scenario will be concentrated around regional assets and in areas that already have the infrastructure to support it.
