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CAPCOG Growth Assessment Wins Innovation Award

Tuesday, August 02, 2011

The National Association of Development Organizations (NADO) has announced that the CAPCOG Assessment of Growth and Development will receive an Innovation Award.   NADO’s Innovation Awards program recognizes regional development organizations and partnering organizations for improving the economic and community competitiveness of our nation’s regions and local communities. The award will be presented at the association’s annual training conference Oct. 8th -11th in Miami. 

The Growth Assessment project was top priority from CAPCOG’s strategic planning process with its Executive Committee two years ago and was completed last fall.  This announcement recognizes the work of elected officials and city managers on the Growth Assessment Subcommittee, in coordination with CAPCOG administration and staff.  The Assessment of Growth and Development combined an unprecedented study of the water supply for the ten-county Capital Area with projections related to population and job growth, road construction, and analyses of the scope and location of anticipated construction and school growth.  The Assessment of Growth and Development makes extensive policy recommendations designed to be useful to all levels and sizes of local governments within the Capital Area.  

“Creative projects like Assessment of Growth & Development in the Capital Region advance the economic growth and sustainability of our nation’s regions and communities.  For more than 20 years, NADO’s Innovation Award has provided regional development organizations throughout the nation a unique opportunity to showcase their important work and their critical role in promoting economic development for rural and small metropolitan communities,” said NADO President Tim Ware, Executive Director of the Mid-East Commission in Washington, North Carolina.

The Assessment of Growth and Development can be accessed from the Publications menu of the Information Clearinghouse section of the CAPCOG website.   For more information regarding the methodology or findings of the Assessment of Growth and Development, contact David Fowler, CAPCOG Senior Planner, at 512-916-6165 or dfowler@capcog.org.