Overview
The OKI Strategic Regional Policy Plan, How Do We Grow From Here?, is a 20-year vision for regional vitality, sustainability and competitiveness. It focuses on the land use-transportation connection.
The strategic planning process addresses four questions:
- Where are we as a region?
- Where are we going given current trends?
- Where do we want to go?
- How do we get there?
To achieve the overall regional vision, six strategic subject areas guide and focus OKI’s planning efforts. Those areas:
- Housing
- Transportation
- Land use
- Public facilities and services
- Natural systems
- Economic development
Plan Impacts on the Funding Criteria for Transportation Projects
The SRPP supports the Land Use Commission’s mission: “… to bring about more consistency between local land use planning and regional transportation planning, so that scarce taxpayer dollars can be used for maximum benefit.”
Local planning criteria look at ways a project supports How Do We Grow From Here? through effective comprehensive planning. A central aim calls for each local government to have an up-to-date comprehensive plan that links:
- Transportation
- Land use
- Economic development
- Public facilities
- Housing
- Natural resources
- Recreation
- Intergovernmental coordination
- Capital improvements
The plan emphasizes “complete and current local government comprehensive plans as a means to a more efficient multi-modal regional transportation system.” To learn more about the scoring criteria for transportation projects, please visit the funding opportunities page.
