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Massachusetts Housing Partnership Panel

Massachusetts Housing Partnership Panel

The Massachusetts Housing Partnership (MHP) recently hosted an informational panel on Tools and Strategies for Explaining MBTA Communities Zoning. There were several planning experts across the state featured on the panel, including MVPC’s Community & Economic...
Community Compact IT Grant Awarded to Groveland

Community Compact IT Grant Awarded to Groveland

Use for the Community Compact IT Grant The Community Compact IT Grant is awarded to municipalities by the state to drive innovation and advancements in the technological realm. This grant is designed to fund community initiatives that make technological tools easier...
MV Moves Abutters Survey Takeaways

MV Moves Abutters Survey Takeaways

Introduction As part of the Active Transportation Plan, MVPC staff solicited input from people living near shared used paths across the region. The abutters survey was intended to gather information about the experience (good or bad) of living near a path and how...
Transportation Funding 101 and 2025-2029 TIP

Transportation Funding 101 and 2025-2029 TIP

What’s the TIP?  Each year, MVMPO staff develop the region’s Transportation Improvement Program (TIP). The TIP is a five-year plan for capital improvements that are candidates for federal aid. In other words, the TIP only programs projects that will potentially make...
MV Moves Intercept Survey Takeaways 

MV Moves Intercept Survey Takeaways 

Introduction As part of MV Moves (Active Transportation Plan), MVPC’s Transportation Program conducted data collection, intercept surveys, and abutters surveys on the various shared use paths in the region. The knowledge gained from the data collection and public...
MV Moves Abutters Survey Takeaways

MV Moves Public Engagement

MVPC’s Transportation Program initiated its public engagement process for the Active Transportation Plan (ATP) – or MV Moves. MV Moves builds upon the original ATP completed in 2014 and the Metropolitan Transportation Plan (MTP), which was endorsed by the MVMPO in...
Coastal Dune Restoration on Plum Island

Coastal Dune Restoration on Plum Island

On a clear and blustery day in November, we geared up and headed out to Plum Island. With buckets of loamy soil, shakers of nutrients, spades, and bundles of American beach grass, we made our way towards the ocean, stopping at the top of the sand dunes. Over the next...
Spicket River Public Meetings

Spicket River Public Meetings

The Merrimack Valley Planning Commission (MVPC), in collaboration with the Merrimack River Watershed Council (MRWC), Groundwork Lawrence (GWL), and the Cities of Methuen and Lawrence, are excited to share an opportunity for the public to learn about ongoing efforts to...
Minority Certification Cohort Program Kickoff

Minority Certification Cohort Program Kickoff

The Merrimack Valley Planning Commission (MVPC), in partnership with Small Business Strong and Mill Cities Community Investments, have launched the Minority Certification Cohort Program. The program, funded by the Eastern Bank Foundation, will guide Merrimack Valley...
Trails and Sails in Gloucester!

Trails and Sails in Gloucester!

This year, MVPC’s Environmental Program hosted a Trails and Sails event! Trails and Sails is a free ten-day event series (9/15-9/24) put on by Essex Heritage. Community groups and organizations host different programs as part of the series to build awareness about the...
Restoring Seagrass in Coastal Waters

Restoring Seagrass in Coastal Waters

In Northeast Massachusetts, we are fortunate to have an abundance of coastline. While we often think of sandy beaches and rocky bluffs, there is a diversity of habitats that make up our coastal ecosystem. Vegetated sand dunes, salt marshes, and coastal shrublands...
Covid-19 Economic Recovery Update

Covid-19 Economic Recovery Update

It has been over three years since Covid-19 became a global pandemic and national health emergency. Along with the rest of the country, the Merrimack Valley saw a sharp increase in unemployment and many businesses struggled to stay afloat throughout the crisis....
MVPC Welcomes Regional Mobility Experts to Staff

Merrimack River Collaborative

Water Quality in the Merrimack River The Merrimack River is a coveted natural resource, connecting and defining communities throughout Northeastern Massachusetts. The river serves as a source of cultural, ecological, and recreational value for all who engage in its...
Public Comment on TIP Documents

Public Comment on TIP Documents

Notice is hereby given of the Availability of the following Amendment for public review and comment: Aviso de audiencias públicas / disponibilidad para revisión y comentarios Proposed Draft Amendment #3 to the 2023-2027 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) and the...
Regional Hazard Mitigation Planning

Regional Hazard Mitigation Planning

MVPC has kicked off the Regional Hazard Mitigation Plan Update process with ten communities in the Valley! Hazard mitigation planning is the process of reducing regional vulnerability to natural hazards through comprehensive planning that protects and bolsters our...
MV Vision 2050 – Public Engagement Update

MV Vision 2050 – Public Engagement Update

MVPC’s Transportation Program has been conducting public engagement for MV Vision 2050 – the Metropolitan Transportation Plan – a plan that includes goals, projects, and strategies for creating a multimodal transportation network out to the year 2050. The planning...
Great Marsh Resiliency Task Force Annual Meeting

Great Marsh Resiliency Task Force Annual Meeting

The Great Marsh Resiliency Task Force, co-chaired by Senator Bruce Tarr and organized by MVPC’s Peter Phippen, convened for the 10th time at their annual meeting on January 27th, 2023.  This year, the speakers covered a broad range of topics, presenting on a diversity...
Public Hearings – Draft Title VI Document

Public Hearings – Draft Title VI Document

Notice is hereby given of the Availability of the following Amendment for public review and comment: Proposed Draft of the 2023 Merrimack Valley Metropolitan Planning Organization (MVMPO) Title VI Program Plan preliminar del programa Título VI de la organización de...