Landscapes2 - Plan Update News
The Landscapes2 website has been updated to feature the next topic in the Plan, Transportation. The Transportation section includes a summary of transportation issues facing Chester County, a description of current capital programming efforts, and a list of resources prepared by other planning partners.
A Transportation presentation was given to the Landscapes2 Steering Committee on August 22nd that summarized the transportation issues facing Chester County.
Other Transportation related references
- Transportation and Housing – A Center for Housing Policy report discussing the relationship between transportation costs and housing affordability.
- Strategies and Tools to Implement Transportation-Efficient Development – This reference guide, prepared for the Washington State Transportation Commission, provides a broad range of tools for improving transportation-land use planning.
- Context-Sensitive Transportation Solutions – This website summaries an emerging federal policy that attempts to improve capital project delivery, while maintaining sensitivity to environmental, social, and community needs.
- Transportation-Land Use Connection – A brief by Oregon’s Transportation and Growth Management Program explaining how land use patterns affect a community’s transportation behaviors, and vice versa.
- Latest News on Costly Mon/Fayette Expressway – The story provides an update to the on-going deliberations to fund a significant highway link in southwestern Pennsylvania.
Master Planner training available in October
Chester County 2020, Chester County Planning Commission, and West Chester University's School of Business & Public Affairs and Department of Geography & Planning will offer a Master Planner course focused on Community Planning in October 2007. This 3-night course is being made available to all municipal planning commission members.
Safety, Growth and Equity
A Policy Link report that addresses the critical issues of adequate funding and equitable policies directed at public infrastructure needs.
Restoring Prosperity
A Brookings Institution report that is part of a broad campaign to shape state and federal policy related to revitalizing America’s older cities.
Green Communities
An initiative of Enterprise Community Partners and its partners, intended to transform the way communities think about, design and build affordable homes.
A New Planning Concept
Co-housing, a type of collaborative housing in which residents actively participate in the design and operation of their own neighborhoods.