Building Municipal Capacity
The goal of this program is to better equip municipalities to implement The Long-Range Plan through Smart Growth plans and policies. In both Pennsylvania and New Jersey, planning and zoning authority is delegated exclusively to local governments; the region's county governments (with the exception of Philadelphia, which is both a city and a county) have no land use power, which makes implementation of regional goals challenging.
Municipal Exchange
GIS Data and Maps
Interactive mapping applications that present geospatial information, or allow us to collect such data from the public, without the need of special GIS software.
Data Navigator
A one-stop data repository for all geographically-based Census and DVRPC data. Regional, County, Municipal (and even some Census Tract) data are viewable online and downloadable.
Shared Services
Governments that share services have lower per capita expenses than those that do not and this effect is most pronounced in suburban communities. In the DVRPC region, there are many examples of service sharing; it has been embraced by members of both political parties as a fiscally responsible method of service delivery.