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Connections - The Regional Plan for a Sustainable Future - SUMMARY BRIEF summarizes the key plan principles of the Connections plan. Connections set regional policy and agenda. It reviews long-term and recent development trends and considers future land use scenarios along with extensive public input as the basis for creating a regional vision to guide future development in the nine-county DVRPC region.……

The Greater Philadelphia Economic Development Framework (Framework) was developed to satisfy provisions for a Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) for the Greater Philadelphia Region, encompassing portions of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. This document was developed according to provisions outlined in 13 CFR 303.7(c), Consideration of non- EDA funded CEDS, and was authored cooperatively……

Safe Routes to School (SRTS) is a program that encourages and enables children to safely walk or bicycle to school. SRTS promotes a healthy and active lifestyle while reducing traffic, pollution, and fuel consumption, and improving safety in the vicinity of schools. This brochure demonstrates how to prepare an SRTS Action Plan using the 4 "E" Strategies: Education, Encouragement, Engineering, and Enforcement.……

When left unregulated, big-box retail promotes sprawling, automobile-oriented development that lacks bicycle, pedestrian, or transit accommodations. As big-box retail becomes increasingly common in the Delaware Valley, it threatens to damage the region's character and diversity. This brochure discusses how the implementation of form-based codes can help to address these challenges. It also provides……

The number of elderly residents has increased dramatically throughout the nation and the region in recent years, and is expected to continue to increase at a record pace. DVRPC's Getting Older and Getting Around (report #99015) considered accessibility and mobility needs of the region's elderly. The Aging of the Baby Boomers: Housing Seniors in the Delaware Valley extends that work by considering……

Efforts to preserve and protect natural resources require dedication and commitment, as well as access to current information and planning tools. One tool that is now increasingly used for conservation and natural resource planning is Geographic Information Systems, or GIS. GIS is a powerful planning tool that allows users not only to organize and display information on maps for presentations, but……

This publication explores the local watershed environment in Gloucester County, New Jersey. With teachers of upper elementary and middle schools as the primary audience, it presents educational information on the water cycle, the specific watersheds in the county, the county's natural and human histories, groundwater and surface water, drinking water quantity, water quality, pollution and other threats……

This publication explores the local watershed environment in Camden County, New Jersey. With teachers of upper elementary and middle schools as the primary audience, it presents educational information on the water cycle, the specific watersheds in the county, the county's natural and human histories, groundwater and surface water, drinking water quantity, water quality, pollution and other threats……

In conjunction with the arrival of a new light rail transit system in Burlington County -- New Jersey Transit's Southern New Jersey Light Rail Transit System (SNJLRTS) -- this report recommends specific measures to encourage transit-oriented development (TOD) surrounding light rail stations. Eight communities along the 34-mile light rail line from Camden to Trenton are studied, including: Beverly/Edgewater……