The Vision Partnership Program (VPP) – Cash Grant is a grant available to Chester County municipalities and multi-municipal groups seeking to improve their planning programs while achieving consistency with and implementation of the goals, objectives, recommendations, and map of Landscapes.
Donor Name: Chester County
State: Pennsylvania
County: Chester County (PA)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/26/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The purpose of VPP is to advance consistency with and implementation of the county comprehensive plan while accomplishing impactful, lasting, and positive benefits for municipalities through innovative municipal planning; multi-municipal planning; and new and revised municipal plans, ordinances, and planning studies that address opportunities and issues of community concern.
Funding Information
- Plans or Ordinances: $50,000 plus $10,000 for each additional municipality.
- Planning Studies: $30,000 plus $5,000 for each additional municipality.
Eligible Projects
- Comprehensive Plan
- Open Space, Park, and Recreation Plan (to include a greenway plan)
- Zoning Ordinance and Amendments (to include amendments specific to topic areas such as agriculture, historic resources, natural resources, housing, traditional neighborhood development, form-based code, transfer of development rights, and establishing mixed-use, diverse, walkable communities)
- Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance and Amendments (to include amendments specific to topic areas such as bicyclist/pedestrian circulation) Official Map and Ordinance
- Urban Center Revitalization Plan
- Resource Protection/Stewardship Plan (addressing topics such as open space, natural resources (including woodland inventories and forestation/woodland management), parks, scenic resources, and historic and cultural resources
- Environmental and Community Sustainability/Resilience Plan/Study (to include energy conservation, clean energy transition)
- Community Design Guide (addressing topics such as housing, historic resources, and villages)
- Village Master Plan
- Heritage Interpretation Plan (in accordance with Preserving Our Places, CCPC, 1998)
- Historic Resource Survey in accordance with Pennsylvania Historic & Museum Commission (PHMC) standards
- Housing Plan/Study
- Economic Development Study
- Transportation Corridor Plan/Study
- Streetscape Master Plan
- Multimodal Plan/Study
- Trail Feasibility Study
- Plans/Ordinances that support transition to renewable or alternative energy
- Agricultural Economic Development Plan.
Eligibility Criteria
- The VPP cash grant program is open to all Chester County municipalities which have endorsed or acknowledged Landscapes3. Eligible applicants include a single municipality or a multi-municipal group, which may consist of two (2) or more contiguous municipalities or two (2) or more municipalities when located in the same school district. The application shall identify and be submitted by a lead municipality in the case of a multimunicipal group application.
- To ensure proper grant administration and promote successful completion of projects, municipalities are encouraged to complete VPP projects funded under previous rounds before applying for additional VPP funding. However, the Chester County Planning Commission may consider approving municipalities to undertake more than one VPP funded project at a time on a case-by-case basis.
- Municipalities involved in a multi-municipal comprehensive plan shall not be eligible for VPP funding to undertake a full comprehensive plan update at the same time as the contract term of the multi-municipal plan. Partial updates to a specific comprehensive plan section, such as the historic resources plan, may be considered on a case-by-case basis.
For more information, visit Chester County.
