Eastern Pennsylvania Freight Alliance

The Eastern Pennsylvania Freight Alliance is a multi-regional coalition created to write a new freight infrastructure plan for the Lehigh Valley, Northeast Pennsylvania, Lackawanna-Luzerne, Berks County and Lebanon County areas. Encompassing 10 counties and 400 municipalities, the Alliance issued a request for proposals and selected a consultant to begin the planning process in 2022.

 As industrial land uses evolve and new uses emerge, the Lehigh County Industrial Land Use Guide is designed to be a decision-support resource that helps municipalities make connections between industry and market realities and available infrastructure capacity, prevent adverse community impacts, and support informed and proactive local decision-making. 

Northampton County, in partnership with the LVPC, has prepared a Freight-Based Land Use Management Guide to assist municipalities in making land use decisions regarding freight-based development and to alleviate issues that result from these types of land uses. The guide includes a land use tool that municipalities can use to determine the best locations for these types of land uses and mitigate the issues associated with these developments.