What is Regional Planning?
Regional planning is a category of planning and development that deals with designing and placing infrastructure and other elements across a large area. Regional planning zones may encompass several towns, cities or even parts of different states, each of which could have their own planning offices in the realm of “urban planning.” The key to regional planning is anticipating the needs of a community or group of communities before those needs arise. Regional planning experts might try to predict how and where the population of a region is going to grow over the next decade and recommend the building of roads and other infrastructure to support that growth before it happens. Those involved in regional planning are often called planning commissioners. Planning commissioners work with the local governments and urban planners within their regional planning zone to discuss such issues as regional development, land use, community development, long-range planning, environmental planning, hous
