2014 Annual Report Highlights Planning Commission’s Focus On Keeping Chester County “Historic, Green, Mobile and Prosperous”

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Ronald Bailey
Ronald Bailey

If its Spring, it must be the annual “annual report” season.  Over the next several weeks VISTA Today will publish highlights as well as the annual reports themselves of Chester County’s 30 or so public companies.

This morning, we’ll start with the annual report of a very public, but not in the traditional business definition of the word, organization; The Chester County Planning Commission.

With Executive Director Ronald Bailey last month announcing his retirement after many years of dedicated, visionary and ground-breaking service leading the Planning Commission, its appropriate we start with what will likely be Mr. Bailey’s final annual report.

While the Planning Commission’s 26-page report is below to read and download, here are several highlights from the report that make the report a must read.

  • Chester County, PA Pipeline Map
    The PIC documented the 600 miles of gas pipeline, some dating back to the 1930’s, crisscrossing Chester County

    The creation of the Pipeline Information Center (PIC) providing residents with a single repository of information on all aspects of the 600 miles of gas pipeline’s crisscrossing Chester County’s 760 square miles.  The website is the first of its kind in the country.

  • The adoption of what Planning Commission Chairman Matt Hammond called a “ bold and ambitious” public transportation plan for Chester County.  The plan seeks to redefine commuters’ preferences and experiences over the next 25 years.
  • The reorganization of the Planning Commission into four divisions to more effectively fulfill the commission’s mission to “provide future growth and preservation plans to citizens, so they can enjoy a Chester County that is historic, green, mobile and prosperous.”
  • Future of the Borough of Elverson
    Future look of Elverson Borough developed under the UICC program.

    A new initiative called Urban Centers Improvement Inventory (UCII) allows both the Planning Commission and local municipalities with urban centers to track the status of the approximately 450 urban center projects already underway.

  • The almost $235,000 in planning project grants awarded by the Planning Commission in 2014 were matched by $267,500 of private and municipal monies.
  • The protection of an additional 3,000 open space acres, up a bit over previous years.  The planning commission hopes a GIS mapping system scheduled to come on line this Spring will identify acres of preserved land not currently in the Commission’s databases.
  • Web activity on one of the Planning Commission’s several websites and information centers led by landscapes2.org and chescoPAgreen.org increased 30 percent in 2014.

Read the Planning Commission’s annual report below or download a copy here.

Chester County Planning Commission 2014 Annual Report

 

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