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    CT Planning Regions

    Metadata Updated: February 12, 2025

    This CT Planning Regions layer consists of individual polygons representing each of the 9 planning regions that make up the state of Connecticut.

    This feature layer is directly derived from the CTDOT Municipalities feature layer geometry, created by CT Department of Transportation. The municipalities are dissolved into their associated regional Councils of Governments.

    This feature layer includes US Census Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) codes that are associated with each municipality. This was included based on information from Connecticut County to County Subdivision Crosswalk from the US Census.

    Connecticut’s 9 planning regions provide a geographic framework within which municipalities can jointly address common interests and coordinate such interests with state plans and programs.  CGS Section 16a-4a authorizes the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management (OPM) to designate or redesignate the boundaries of logical planning regions. CGS Section 4-124j authorizes the member municipalities of each planning region to establish a formal regional governance structure known as a council of governments (COG).

    These regions have been recognized as county-equivalents and supersede the eight legacy counties in the state.

    For more information see:

    CT Office of Policy and Management, Regional Councils of Governments in Connecticut Final Change to County Equivalents in Connecticut [PDF] Final Federal Register Notice CT Office of the Secretary of the State, Regional Councils of Governments

    Field name

    Field description

    PlanningRegion

    Name of the Councils of Governments planning region.

    PlanningRegion FIPS

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    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: No license information was provided.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date September 6, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date February 12, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from Connecticut Data.json

    Other Data Resources

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date September 6, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date February 12, 2025
    Publisher State of Connecticut
    Maintainer
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    Data First Published 2024-09-04
    Data Last Modified 2025-01-08
    Category geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://data.ct.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
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    Harvest Source Id 36c82f29-4f54-495e-a878-2c07320bf10c
    Harvest Source Title Connecticut Data.json
    Homepage URL https://geodata.ct.gov/datasets/ctmaps::ct-planning-regions-1
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -73.7260,40.9803,-71.7813,42.0486
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 144af9d983be5ce62261f48e0a00ac09726ab91d5a6d83dc23aed14b846e881d
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": -73.7260, 40.9803, -73.7260, 42.0486, -71.7813, 42.0486, -71.7813, 40.9803, -73.7260, 40.9803}

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