State Land Use and Growth Management Report 2005

Below is the inaugural State Land Use and Growth Management Report. The report fulfills the requirements of the MPC by providing an assessment of statewide and regional growth and development patterns and offering a series of strategic policy recommendations to Commonwealth agencies for coordination of executive action, regulations and programs.

The Governor’s Center spearheaded a collaborative effort to inventory the Commonwealth’s most pressing land use trends and issues for the report. Considering the diversity and complexity of the state’s population growth and land development patterns, the Center initially developed a multi-level outreach effort to obtain information and data for the report. Interviews and focus group research were conducted with all 67 county planning agencies and across nine distinct regions, which convened both community planning and economic development officials. From these efforts, county and regional land use profiles were developed for all 67 Pennsylvania counties and the nine regions. These profiles are living documents to be used frequently by state and local governments, as well as non-government organizations, to document the status of existing and future land use and development trends and issues.

2005 State Land Use and Growth Management Report

The report has been broken into sections for quicker downloading.