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What is a regional planning commission?

April 26, 2017Commission planning Regional

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What is a regional planning commission?

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In 1965, the Missouri Legislature enacted the State and Regional Planning and Community Development Act. This Act, which appears as Chapter 251 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri (1969), created the Missouri Department of Community Affairs. The Act also authorized the governor to create regional planning commissions upon the petition of local governmental units. If the Governor finds that there is a need for a regional planning commission, and if the governing bodies of local units within the proposed region include over 50 percent of the population of the proposed region, then the governor may create the regional planning commission. Today, the State of Missouri’s 114 counties have been divided into 19 regional planning commissions.