​Engagement Opportunities

​Placemaking Program

The City of Charlotte’s Placemaking Program launched in 2018 with the mission of using urban design and placemaking to transform underutilized public spaces into vibrant places for people. The Urban Design Center in the City of Charlotte’s Planning, Design, and Development department is leading the effort with their own projects while creating opportunities for neighborhoods to use placemaking to promote community collaboration and accomplish public space goals. Learn more >>

Meck Playbook

Meck Playbook is a comprehensive planning and outreach project to help create the parks and recreation system of tomorrow. Meck Playbook will result in a plan for future parks and programs and develop a vision and strategies to meet the recreation needs of Mecklenburg County residents and create vibrant places for people who visit and work in the County. Learn more >>

Charlotte 2040 Plan

The Charlotte Future 2040 Comprehensive Plan is a plan that will guide how our city grows and how we invest in our city over the next 20 years. Once completed, it will be a living document that takes community input and ideas and turns them into the actions that guide our city’s decision-making in both the near- and long-term. It’s a plan that relies on connections – with other plans, with budgets, with what’s going on in the day-to-day life of Charlotte. Learn more >>

Charlotte Regional Transportation Planning Organiation (CRTPO)

The Charlotte Regional Transportation Planning Organization (CRTPO) is the federally designated Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for the Charlotte Urbanized Area.  Federal legislation requires Urbanized Areas with populations larger than 50,000 to have an MPO, whose primary function is to carry out the transportation planning process among the member jurisdictions within its established planning area boundary.  Due to the growth of the Charlotte Urbanized Area, and the subsequent expansion of the MPO planning area boundary, the CRTPO was established in place of the former Mecklenburg-Union MPO. Learn more >>