For nearly four years MORPC has engaged in intensive research that ultimately will help us lead a collaborative effort to make our region as attractive, as livable, and as prosperous as possible.

The centerpiece of this research is a multifaceted growth strategy called Regional Connections. The objectives of Regional Connections  were to create an understanding of Central Ohio’s anticipated growth over the next 20 to 30 years, and to formulate a strategy to address this growth in a way that aesthetically and economically enhances the region.

In October of 2007, MORPC adopted the recommendations of Regional Connections as "a  significant guiding framework for Commission policy decisions."  The full contents of the Regional Connections report are available here.

Since the challenges facing our region, and addressed in Regional Connections, do not recognize jurisdictional boundaries, MORPC is the logical catalyst for positive change and sound solutions — the best group positioned to bring together private, non-profit and public stakeholders and decision makers from across the region.  To address these pivotal issues, MORPC has created the Center for Regional Development.