Mid-Atlantic Regional Planning Roundtable IIIDecember 8, 2006

Tom Christoffel, NSVRC “I see regions.”

Mid-Atlantic Super-Region Mapping the Regional Council as an Analytic Unit

This is how the average person sees the region – A Road Map

This is an MSA view – one marketing people might also see.

Base map: Sub-State Regions

A region set that should be added - MPOs

1st product – second generation.

2nd Product % change - a different picture.

3rd – 2005 Population density by region.

Loss of countryside – viewshed? Region land area less Federal and State Lands – including Urban Areas

Acres per Unit Scale Developed in 1990 - NSV

In our region we trackthe shift in density aspermits are issued in these Census Tract areas.

Overall density in 2005 drops when Urban areas pulled out – with time series we could see better the sprawls as build out occurs.

County to County Work-flows: 2000 CTPP

Sussex

Future? Region to Region work flow like WILMAPCO

Contact

Tom Christoffel, AICP, Senior PlannerE-mail: tchrist@shentel.netPhone: 540-636-8800 x 209

Wendi Stine, GIS AnalystE-mail: wstine@shentel.netPhone: 540-636-8800 x 206

Northern Shenandoah Valley Regional Commission103 E. Sixth Street - Front Royal, VA 22630

Web: www.lfpdc7.state.va.us