The Eastgate Regional Council of Governments is seeking applications for its 2025 Planning Grants.
Donor Name: Eastgate Regional Council of Governments
State: Ohio
County: Trumbull County (OH)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 12/16/2023
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Eastgate Regional Council of Governments offers a Planning Grant to assist municipalities with planning efforts that:
- Provides capital capacity for local communities to conduct planning efforts
- Advances the improvement of multimodal transportation infrastructure across the region
- Achieves community visions as related to transportation and land use needs that promote future economic growth
The Planning Grant should further the following principals:
- Increase active transportation options to connect people and places
- Promote Complete Street principles to create vibrant and safe places for all users
- Leverage transportation projects to develop places which support active transportation and complete streets through land use and design
- Preserve existing infrastructure (Capital Improvement Plan)
- Support economic development
- Enhance quality of life in the Mahoning Valley
Eastgate’s goal is to award planning grants to communities and implementing governmental agencies that have legal authority to sponsor federal-aid capital improvement projects. Applications may have more than one sponsor
Principles
- Active Transportation
- Active transportation refers to traveling in any way other than driving alone. Examples include biking, walking, carpooling, and public transportation.
- Complete Streets
- Complete streets are designed and operated to ensure safe access for all users, including pedestrians, bicyclists, transit riders, and motorists of all ages and abilities.
- Land Use and Design
- The purpose of the planning grant is to better understand the relationship between land use and transportation to encourage transportation projects which support vibrant, healthy, and inclusive places where people of all ages, abilities and income have viable transportation choices to get to schools, jobs, shopping and recreation.
- Economic Development
- Economic development is supported by coordinating land use and transportation. At minimum, the coordination of land use and transportation requires that those concerned with the well-being of a community assess and evaluate how land use decisions affect the transportation system and can increase viable options for people to access opportunities, goods, services, and other resources to improve the quality of their lives.
- Capital Improvement Plan
- The purpose of this type of plan is to forecast and match projected revenues and major capital needs over a specific period.
- Quality of Life
- The intent is to preserve and even enhance valued natural and cultural resources and facilitate healthy, sustainable communities and neighborhoods.
Funding Information
Eastgate is providing $30,000 for community planning projects.
Eligible Activities
Only planning activities are eligible for the Eastgate Planning Grant. Planning activities must coordinate with partners and stakeholders and result in deliverables that recommend transportation infrastructure improvements. Activities that specifically facilitate and promote sustainable development, multimodal transportation, and complete streets are strongly encouraged. We are looking for planning projects that include:
- Transportation improvements
- Site specific recommendations
- Land Use considerations
Eligibility Criteria
Only communities and implementing governmental agencies that have legal authority to sponsor federal-aid capital improvement projects in Mahoning and Trumbull counties are eligible to apply. Eligible applicants include political subdivisions, other state agencies, boards, commissions, regional transit authorities, county transit boards, and port authorities (Ohio Revised Code Chapter 5501.03, Paragraph D). Non-implementing government agencies and non-government organizations must partner with an eligible government entity to co-sponsor a planning grant. Only eligible applicants can complete the application and assume responsibility for entering into a funding agreement with Eastgate to carry out the planning project.
For more information, visit Eastgate.
