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Program and Activity Summary

Land Use and Environmental Resources:
Land use planning responsibilities include the preparation of plan recommendations concerning the physical aspects of land use development, and also includes responsibility for developing demographic, economic, and public financial resource data that serve as the basis for regional and subregional plans. The Commission conducts planning activities regarding the protection of the Region’s environment, including: regional water quality, nonpoint source pollution abatement, local sewerage facilities, floodland and stormwater management, and coastal management.

Transportation:
The Commission conducts a range of transportation planning activities, including: data collection, collation, and development; long-range planning; transportation systems management; traffic engineering; transportation improvement programming; rail system planning; air transportation planning; and data provision and technical assistance.

Community Development:
The Commission assists local units of government in the Region in the conduct of local planning efforts, thereby promoting coordination of local and regional plans and plan implementation actions, and generally promoting good public administration, as well as sound physical development within the Region. Four basic types of services are provided: education, advisory, review, and project planning.

Economic Development:
The Commission assists county and local units of government in the Region in pursuing economic development activities, and coordinating county and local economic development plans and programs. Five basic types of services are provided: economic development program planning; data provision; grant application preparation and grant award administration; revolving loan fund administration and project management.

Information and Data Systems:
The Commission creates and maintains a series of regional planning base maps; serves as a regional coordinating center for the conduct of large-scale topographic and cadastral mapping efforts that serve as an automated mapping base to support land records modernization efforts; and secures orthophotography of the Region at five-year intervals. The Commission also maintains an extensive data bank and processes requests for data retrieval from a broad range of internal and external sources.

Association of Wisconsin Regional Planning Commissions: 2009