The Lehigh Valley Planning Commission (LVPC) in 2019 released FutureLV: The Regional Plan. It’s the region’s fifth comprehensive plan for the region and in 2023, the Long-Range Transportation Plan portion of FutureLV was updated after an additional public engagement campaign that included a second regionwide survey, and meetings with all 62 municipalities, community organizations, government agencies and residents. FutureLV, with the updated Long-Range Transportation Plan, is provided below. That document was open for public comment September 6 through October 6. Based on those comments, changes were made and a second comment period was open from October 25th through November 8th. The final document was adopted by the Lehigh Valley Transportation Study on November 15th.
FutureLV is among the first comprehensive plans in the nation that merges the land use, economic, environmental, housing, preservation and farming policies with the transportation planning and investment policies of the Lehigh Valley Transportation Study (LVTS). FutureLV covers both Lehigh and Northampton counties, creating a forward-thinking strategy that leads the region into the future, while addressing the needs of today.
The federally designated Metropolitan Planning Organization, Lehigh Valley Transportation Study, in coordination with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and US Department of Transportation, have approved the revision of FutureLV: The Regional Plan, including the estimated $2.7 billion, fiscally constrained investment plan.
This took place between January and September 2023. This is to ensure that the transportation system in the Lehigh Valley is maintained, safe, accessible, prepared and resilient in the interest of public health, safety and general welfare of the Lehigh Valley and supporting:
The staff of the Lehigh Valley Planning Commission manages the Metropolitan Planning Organization functions for the region. This team, reporting to the Lehigh Valley Transportation Study (LVTS) monthly, worked on the transportation planning for this project. The LVTS Technical Committee serves as the planning board for the LVTS and led the preparation of the Long-Range Transportation Plan revisions. The public was invited to participate in the update through the LVTS Technical Committee monthly meetings as well as through a series of community engagement meetings that began in late February.
In June, the LVTS began the selection process for the submitted projects. All of the meetings were open to the public and took place in-person at the Lehigh Valley Planning Commission office at 961 Marcon Boulevard, Suite 310, Allentown, PA 18109.
Every four years the Lehigh Valley Transportation Study is required by federal statute to review long-range transportation policy and investments.
In 2023, the transportation planning embedded in FutureLV: The Regional Plan will be assessed and revised to meet this requirement. This process will evaluate priorities of the current 25-year transportation plan with an enhanced focus on advancing equitable communities, transportation safety and infrastructure resiliency measures included in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, enacted by Congress and signed into law on November 15, 2021. The intent of the transportation update of FutureLV: The Regional Plan is to evolve and advance a forward-thinking strategy that leads the Lehigh Valley into the future while addressing the needs of today.
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