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Pennsylvania
Delaware Valley Planning Commission Launches Efficient Suburban Growth Program
To advance smart growth in Buck, Chester, Delaware and Montgomery counties and help them become more livable and sustainable in the long term, the Delaware Valley Planning Commission (DVRPC) announced its Efficient Growth for Growing Suburbs (EGGS) program, with $320,000 in FY 2009 grants to eligible communities for better design, development and coordination of land use with transportation.
Funded by the state Department of Transportation (PennDOT) and administered by DVRPC, the new program will support community planning, preliminary engineering, regulatory efforts, and feasibility studies to improve growth management, enhance community design and optimize transportation investments.
Accordingly, communities can use the grants to research or draw up land-use plans, mixed-use development ordinances, effective agricultural zoning and similar measures.
''Eligible municipalities,'' says a DVRPC press release, ''include those identified in DVRPC's Destination 2030 Long-Range Plan as 'growing suburbs' and as 'rural areas' that have at least 100 acres of designated 'future growth area.'''
For a complete eligibility list, download the guidebook at www.dvrpc.org/planning/community/eggs/EGGS_Guidelines_2009.pdf. Grant grant application time will expire on March 13, 2009. -- Delaware Valley Planning Commission 2/3/2009
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