An Integrated Land Use Vision
for the Miami Valley Region

REGIONAL LAND USE PLANNING INITIATIVE

In July 2007, MVRPC began a 4-year Regional Land Use Planning initiative titled Going Places: An Integrated Land Use Vision for the Miami Valley Region. Working with various regional stakeholders, this new initiative is to follow a 3-phase land use planning process to develop a shared future land use vision, represented by the conceptual 2040 regional growth framework for the Miami Valley Region.

The 2040 regional growth framework is not to set traditional land use designations such as future residential, commercial, or industrial areas. Rather, it is to identify areas desired and appropriate for future development, re-development and preservation.

The planning area includes Greene, Miami, and Montgomery counties and the cities of Carlisle, Franklin, and Springboro in northern part of Warren County.

More information is available in the
Going Places Overview brochure (Adobe Acrobat Reader:1.15 MB).

The 3-Phase planning process is:

  • Phase I – Existing Condition Assessment : Physical and Non-Physical Condition Evaluation (Estimated time: 18 months)
  • Phase II – Future Landscape Exploration : Future Land Use Scenario Development and Assessment (Estimated time: 2 years)
  • Phase III – Building a Clear and Shared Regional Land Use Framework
    (Estimated time: 6 months)

View the Land Use Planning Initiative proposal endorsed by the Board of Directors

Watch a video on Sustainable Growth and the Going Places initiative . Or get some answers to Frequently Asked Questions.

Phase II – Future Landscape Exploration

The Going Places initiative is currently in Phase II – Future Landscape Exploration phase. Identifying and building Future Land Use Scenarios, which incorporate the important issues of “How and Where the Region should develop by 2040?” and assessing each scenario's social, economic and environmental implications are the two major goals of this phase.

As part of the efforts to engage the regional stakeholders in the scenario building process, MVRPC held a series of public workshops and focus group workshops between October, 2009, and June, 2010 to gather information from people who live and work in the Miami Valley Region on how they would like to see the Region develop in the future.

View the Phase II Stakeholder Engagement Strategy, which provides a roadmap of how Phase II will be carried out and a general overview of the strategic approach that the Going Places initiative intends to employ during Phase II.

More information is available in the
Going Places Phase I brochure (Adobe Acrobat Reader:4.69 MB).

Phase I Existing Condition Assessment

The Going Places Phase I – Existing Condition Assessment has been completed. Various studies were completed to evaluate the Region's physical landscape and to identify various socio-economic trends in the Region. Information and all reports for each of the studies is available online.

Stay Connected

MVRPC encourages residences of the Region to sign up for the Going Places Email Updates to receive periodic progress updates and announcements on the Going Places initiative in order to stay connected in the process and learn about ways to participate in this important effort. Or become a fan of Going Places on Facebook to show your support and learn about upcoming activities and progress.

Steering Committee and Planning Advisory Committee

The Going Places Steering Committee and Planning Advisory Committee provide a leadership and overall strategic direction for the initiative. Information from each of the committee meeting is available online. The next Planning Advisory Committee meeting will be held on June 10, 2010.

For additional information about the Going Places initiative, contact Martin Kim, MVRPC's Director of Regional Planning at (937) 223-6323 or mkim@mvrpc.org.