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The Westmoreland County Department of Planning is the sole planning agency for Westmoreland County.

Urban and Regional Planning, in general, is a process by which a community defines a vision for its future growth and revitalization. Much of the day-to-day work of planners is the implementation of that vision, defined in a Comprehensive Plan.
To that end, we:

• Prepare and implement the county's comprehensive plan and complementary functional plans.
• Monitor, advise, support and lobby for transportation projects to be placed on the regional Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) as a member of the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO), the Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission.
• Administer land use regulations through the County's Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance (SALDO) which is applicable to 29 of the county's 65 municipalities.
• Review local plans, ordinances and developments for consistency with the Comprehensive Plan.