MCEA's work is based on the propositions that (i) the environmental, social, and economic effects of the region's pattern of development plays out at the nexus of land use and transportation, and (ii) the solutions to the environmental effects must also acknowledge and deal with the social and economic effects.
MCEA works to establish the public policy platforms and funding mechanisms that support more compact, mixed-use forms of development, provide a broad set of choice for where we live and how we get around, provide all residents access to the region's environmental, social, and economic opportunities, protect the region's remaining natural areas, and improve the quality of the air we breathe and the water we drink.
Using law, science, and economics in all branches and at all levels of government, MCEA has built a niche for itself at the intersection of land use planning and regulation, the planning and funding of transportation, and regional governance and economic competition.
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