Omaha-Council Bluffs Metropolitan Area Planning Agency (MAPA) will be awarded $2,045,000 to develop a Regional Plan for Sustainable Development. The plan will include the development of several scenarios for future growth that represent different ways of achieving equilibrium between the goals of equity, environmental sustainability, and economic growth in the future development of the Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan region.
The scenarios will be developed through an extensive community engagement process at the regional, local, and neighborhood scales.
Anticipated Project Benefits: Provide citizens, policy-makers, and providers of public services with a clear and comprehensive vision, based in shared community values, of how the region should develop over the next 40 years. Illuminate the workings of the many systems that support the region and the ways in which they complement and compete with one another Grapple with ways of improving governance and the delivery of services that enhance regional livability and narrow persistent disparities in the community.
Funding Amount: $ 2,045,000
Core Partners: Nebraska: Douglas, Sarpy, Washington, and Saunders Counties; Omaha, Bellevue, La Vista, Gretna, Papillion, Blair. Iowa: Pottawattamie, Mills, and Harrison Counties; Council Bluffs
HUD Region: 7
Congressional District: NE-002
http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/press/press_releases_media_advisories/2011/HUDNo.11-274
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