The Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission (CCRPC) and the Chittenden County Metropolitan Planning Organization (CCMPO) will merge July 1.
CCRPC was created by 15 Chittenden County municipalities in 1966 and authorized by state law in 1968.
CCMPO was created in 1983 as a result of the population exceeding 50,000 in the Census defined Urbanized Area. The federal designation as a Metropolitan Planning Organization required the communities in the Urbanized Area to undertake more intensive transportation planning in collaboration with the Vermont Agency of Transportation.
Both organizations provide planning services for all Chittenden County municipalities.
Read more about the merger in the organizations' press release.