mid-atlantic regional planning roundtable 4 november 9, 2007 tom christoffel, aicp
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Roundtables Review – Regional Analysis 3.0. Mid-Atlantic Regional Planning Roundtable 4 November 9, 2007 Tom Christoffel, AICP “I see regions.”. Roundtable I – October 21, 2005 - Middletown, Virginia - Northern Shenandoah Valley. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Mid-Atlantic Regional Planning Roundtable 4November 9, 2007
Tom Christoffel, AICP “I see regions.”
Roundtables Review – Regional Analysis 3.0
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Roundtable I – October 21, 2005 - Middletown,
Virginia - Northern Shenandoah Valley
• Northern Shenandoah Valley Regional Commission response to Wash COG 2030 projections– Impacts perceived of continued growth– Strong impact since 9/11– Region may not want to continue to supply labor and
be affordable housing solution– Other outlying regions interested in the conversation– Why were we concerned about the Mid-Atlantic?
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The Mid-Atlantic has been our Market area for 20 Years
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This is the Wash COG – MSA View of the World
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Area – Roundtable IBegin looking at the Mid-Atlantic as Regions
This is where we started
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Presentations
o Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments
o Baltimore Metropolitan Councilo Northern Virginia Regional Commissiono Rappahannock-Rapidan Regional Commission -
Warrenton – Culpepero Northern Shenandoah Valley – Front Royal –
Winchester o Eastern Panhandle – Region 9 - Martinsburg –
Charles Town o Region 8 – Romney, WV
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Super-Region Label - Issue Areas • Multi-State Transportation Corridors - 9/340/I-81/270/I-95/• Hazard mitigation • Metro Evacuation• Homeland Security• Air Quality • Water - ground and surface (ICPRB)• Vision/Scenario/Alternatives (from a local region process related to
those in other regions) • Infrastructure • Broadband • Regional Policy • No new bypasses in metro region puts more pressure on existing
roads.• Freight & Multi-modal/multi-state freight/rail and ports • Labor chain - everyone imports labor from outside their region - no
surplus of labor even at the fringes
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Roundtable II – Expanded AreaCo-sponsors – NARC, NADO, AMPO
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Roundtable II – February 17, 2006 Washington, D.C.
Presentations
• Tri-county Southern Maryland –• George Washington – then RADCO –
Fredericksburg – • WILMAPCO - Wilmington Area Planning Council • Kent/Dover MPO • Tri-county Western Maryland • State perspectives on Transportation
- Virginia DOT- Maryland DOT
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County to County Work-flows: 2000 CTPP
Sussex
Future? Region to Region work flow like WILMAPCO
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Roundtable III – BaltimoreParticipation area grows –
NARC, NADO & AMPO Co-sponsor
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Roundtable III – December 8, 2006 Baltimore, MDPresentations
• Mid-Atlantic Regional Analysis• Air Quality – Air Pollution Transport - Maryland
Department of the Environment and Air Quality Planning Branch, EPA - Region III
• Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission PA-NJ
• Lancaster County, PA – Growth Management Plan • Thomas Jefferson – Charlottesville Freight
Movement Study - Commonwealth's Multimodal Transportation Planning Office
• Integrated Corridor Analysis Tool (ICAT) - I-95 Corridor Coalition
Next Sponsor? – APA Regional & Intergovernmental Planning Division
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Base map: Sub-State Regions
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Regional 3.0?
• 1998 National Regional summit – NARC• Opinion of experts – regionalism had failed in
the U.S. • I knew our region worked.• No interest in a single layer of Regions as
Virginia had• Search for perfect set of regional boundaries.• 2007 – “We really don’t know how to do regional
planning.” Ron Thomas, Calgary, Canada
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Regional Communities• The emergence of Regional Community –
the sense of being a “community of communities” had become operational in PD-7. The PDC was another layer of community.
• Northern Shenandoah Valley gave a recognizable name that contributed to the alignment built into Virginia.
• Looking to geography, there were many criteria for regions – watershed, bioregion, culture, economy, etc. – most acted like political boundaries were mistakes.
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State as Region County – substate Region
• In 1967, W.G. East wrote: “There is only one region-the surface of the earth-on which mankind finds its home.”
• Gwilliam Law – Administrative Subdivisions of Countries – U.S. only States listed, not counties. Why? Counties too unstable. States are semi-autonomous regions.
• This led to a scale approach.
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Local-Regional Scale – A Proposal
If this is “Local Community”
Then this is “Regional Community.” Level
unincorporated area, township & municipal corporations→e.g. Gore, Middletown, Winchester City
County - e.g. – Frederick 1.0
County → Defined multi-county/independent city regional organization(s); e.g. – Planning District 7 – served by Northern Shenandoah Valley Regional Commission; Winchester Airport Authority
2.0
Multi-county region→ Region to region cooperation – e.g. I-81 Corridor; Shenandoah Valley water and air; Mid-Atlantic Roundtable; crossing State lines or inclusive of an entire State - e.g. – Virginia Association of PDCs
3.0
State→ Multi-State – e.g. - Quad State Legislators MD-PA-VA-WV; ICPRB; Chesapeake Bay
4.0
Multi-State→ Nation - e.g. – United States 5.0
Nation→ Multi-national continental/oceanic – e.g. The Americas, North, Central and South - e.g. – NAFTA – Canada, Mexico, U.S.
6.0
Multi-national → World/planet/globe – e.g. – United Nations, WTO, ... 7.0
Global→ Solar system – galaxy – universe – e.g. – a Galactic Federation ?
8.0
Thought: “Local is whole. All politics are local. When a regional geography is whole, it becomes local, the local region”
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1.0 Scale - County
If this is “Local Community”
Then this is “Regional Community.”
unincorporated area, township & municipal corporations→e.g. Gore, Middletown, Winchester City
County - e.g. – Frederick
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2.0 Scale – Multi-County Region
If this is “Local Community”
Then this is “Regional Community.”
County → Defined multi-county/independent city regional organization(s); e.g. – Planning District 7 – served by Northern Shenandoah Valley Regional Commission; Winchester Airport Authority
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3.0 Scale – Region to Region
If this is “Local Community”
Then this is “Regional Community.”
Multi-county
region→COG, PDC, RC, etc.
Region to region cooperation – e.g. I-81 Corridor; Shenandoah Valley water and air; Mid-Atlantic Roundtable; crossing State lines or inclusive of an entire State - e.g. – Virginia Association of PDCs
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4.0 Scale – Multi-State
If this is “Local Community”
Then this is “Regional Community.”
State→ Multi-State – e.g. - Quad State Legislators
MD-PA-VA-WV; ICPRB; Chesapeake Bay
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Roundtable 4 – FredericksburgNovember 9, 2007
• Mid-Atlantic – New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia, West Virginia
• What about the Bos-Wash Mega-Region?– Old news - Jean Gottmann's book Megalopolis: The
Urbanized Northeastern Seaboard of the United States in 1961. 1971 - Bos-Rich? Bos-Fork?
– Mid-Atlantic Super-Region? Colonial U.S. Network.• American Planning Association organized with Division
and State Chapters to do Multi-State Regional Planning Roundtables in the U.S.
• Mid-Atlantic Regional planning analysis
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1st product – second generation.
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2nd Product % change - a different picture.
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3rd – 2005 Population density by region.
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Loss of countryside – viewshed? Region land area less Federal and State Lands – including Urban Areas
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Overall density in 2005 drops when Urban areas pulled out – with time series we could see better the sprawls as build out occurs.