The Steering Committee for the Regional Transit Governance Study will meet on Monday November 7th at 2pm for a project kick-off meeting. This meeting will introduce the project, discuss next steps and answer questions.
Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission Signs Contract with Department of Housing and Community Development, Launching a $288M Project to Build Fiber Internet to More Than 36,000 Homes and Businesses The Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission (TJPDC) announced that they officially signed a contract with the Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD), launching a $288 million fiber internet construction project that will provide access to affordable, reliable high speed fiber internet to more than 36,000 businesses and residences. In December 2021, Governor Ralph Northam announced the award of a $79…
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During the 2022 General Assembly session, Delegate Sally Hudson introduced HJR 339 commending the Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission (TJPDC) on the occasion of its 50th anniversary this year. TJPDC was established in 1972, on the heels of Virginia’s adoption of the Virginia Area Development Act (VADA), which was approved and signed into law in 1968. This law created the planning district commission framework “to encourage and facilitate local government cooperation and state-local cooperation in VATI addressing on a regional basis, problems of greater than local significance.” At the Commission’s…
The TJPDC is the administrator for a 2022 Virginia Telecommunication Initiative (VATI) grant that will facilitate rural broadband expansion across a 13-county area, including the five counties that are part of the TJPDC region. The $79 million grant from the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD), along with $209 million in local and private sector matching funds, support the $288 million project that will provide access to high-speed internet to more than 36,000 residents and business in the counties. TJPDC has been working closely this year with our…
The Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission was awarded an $80,000 grant by the US Economic Development Administration (EDA) along with $20,000 local matching funds to develop a Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) for the region. A CEDS provides a vehicle for individuals, organizations, local governments, institutions of learning, and private industry to engage in a meaningful conversation and debate about what capacity building efforts would best serve economic development in the region. The TJPDC and Rappahannock-Rapidan Regional Commission (RRRC) will work together to identify super-regional strategies, goals, and objectives that…