Regional Planning

Regional planning is an approach to addressing an issue that cannot be adequately addressed by one community acting alone. Examples of such issues include planning for economic development, affordable housing, and protection of biological corridors. Working in concert, communities within a region can develop a unified approach to meeting regional goals.

Regional planning is closely related to intermunicipal planning. However, regional planning is distinguished from intermunicipal planning in that intermunicipal planning often addresses issues of common interest between two or more municipalities in order to combine resources or prevent duplication of effort. Regional planning focuses on issues that can only be addressed at a regional level.