The 2010 U.S. Census is Happening Now!

If you already didn’t know from receiving your census form in the mail, the 2010 census is now underway.  By law, your response is required and all answers are confidential.  The government uses the census to determine allocation of money and services across the country.  It is important to help our communities and our region, [...]

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National Flood Safety Awareness Week (March 15-19)

This week serves as a great opportunity to remind your community residents that a flood insurance policy is the best financial protection against flooding because most homeowners insurance policies do NOT cover flood damage. Floodsmart, NOAA, & FEMA have collaborated on this new interactive web page www.floodsmart.gov/noaafloodweek showing the recent and past years flood history [...]

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SWWRPC Secures $960K For Mineral Point Business Park Improvements

Southwestern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission announced today that they have been notified by U.S. Rep. Ron Kind’s office that their grant request on behalf of Mineral Point for $960,000 for business park improvements and a sewer interceptor has been approved by the U.S. Economic Development Administration. Ed White, Economic Development Program Manager for the Southwestern [...]

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SWWRPC Receives Planning Award

SWWRPC received an “Award of Recognition” from the Wisconsin Chapter of the American Planning Association for the 131 Comprehensive Plans we have worked on. The award was presented at last week’s planning conference. Appearing with Executive Director Ward in the photo is Todd Johnson, Community Planning Program Manager, and Tjaard Van Holten, Associate Planner. The [...]

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WLIA Conference

Although the planners in our organization are heading to the WAPA Conference, our GIS staff just returned from the annual conference for the Wisconsin Land Information Association.  The theme of this year’s event emphasized the “A B C’s of GIS: Access, Build, Communicate.”  At this event we met with other users of Geographic Information Systems [...]

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